Really Just use the 1st party.

1.They are way better due to the materials the higher end companies use.

2.They have Wireless Recievers meant to always be in sync with the PS3.

3.Don't you think they would make a controller that works great with the $500 system they made?

Buy a sony DS3,They are expensive.but they work.

It took us 1 minute to sync up our DS3.

Yes i own this TV and it is quite good for gaming.Fairly future proof yes.

But for your budget i would own my other one,my 32" Sony Bravia,I saw it had Slightly sharper colors than the REGZA.

Another would be if you did not have a budget would be a 52" Sharp Aquos.Very good TV.

It is about time,This is the only program i trust to run all of my games.This is a huge plus to every gamer,EA makes great games usually only available on-line on Direct2Drive or sites like that,getting them on steam will open up more options for EA,and gamers alike.VALVe you are awesome!

Here are the hardware specs of some of the systems.I got this in a guiness world records gamers edition.

Original Playstation-360,000 polygons per second

PS3-CPU-3.2GHz Powerpc Core-512kb L2 Cache-GPU-550MHz RSX nvidia card.Overall Performance-2 Teraflops

Xbox 360-CPU-3.2GHz IBM PowerPc custom core.3 symmetrical core.1MB L2 Cache.

GPU-500MHz Xenos with 10MB DRAM (ATI).512MB GDDR 3 video RAM.

Overall Performance-1 teraflop.

PS3 Has A little better overall performance.

Although i still love The 360,My PS3 is my favorite.

Sorry just had to add the PS1 specs.