QUOTE(Martinchris23 @ Aug 20 2006, 10:18 AM)
How can you *not* see the PS3 as a gamble? Check the track record for Sonys' backed media: Betamax. UMD-Video. What if you throw the $600 into a PS3 and it doesn't do everything that Sony have 'promised'? (face it, their not exactly reliable on information). Furthermore, what if BluRay/BD-ROM fails to take off? Considering they haven't even started to build the units yet, what if it has massive heating issues?
You seem like an intelligent fellow, yet this doesn't seem a smart thing to do at all. Maybe you are one of the many who will just be buying a PS3 because it's a Sony.
there's franchises on PS brand that aren't anywhere else.
Socom,
Gran Turismo
Tekken
Soul Cali
Final Fantasy (main series)
Devil May Cry
MGS
and many more....
true, I'm listing quite a bit, but I do in fact play those series.
I bought the GC back then when it was a gamble (on launch) and the year following (or was it the year after) it paid off big time when they released Mario Sunshine, Metroid Prime, Starfox Adv, RE, RE-0 all within months of each other. With the franchises that Sony has under their belt, it will be the same scenario, but on a grander scale spanned over many more years.
I also bought the PSP and DS back when it was a huge gamble, and I ended up selling it. The problem now is, I know that those systems would eventually deliver, but I sold them anyways, which was a mistake. I know the PS3 will eventually deliver, so might as well invest in it now and stick with it.