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Top Ten Reasons To Buy PS3 This Holiday

Today we have the PlayStation 3 and with it, there is a huge list of reasons to own it. So here at PS3Center we brainstormed some of the things we love about the PS3 and created a list of the top 10 reasons to own a PS3. So if you don't already own a PS3, or plan on buying a new system this holiday season, sit back and check it out. If you do happen to own a PS3 already, check it out anyway and see if you agree. Reason 10 - Free Networking Features

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Bungie5264d ago

thanks ps3center.net

ps3 is a good console

Shotgun_Roamer5264d ago

i almost feel bad for bungie.... almost.

Saaking5264d ago

I've got one reason:

It only does everything!

HolyOrangeCows5264d ago

I suppose PS3 sites should be making lists about the 360 and 360 sites about the PS3?

GTFO.

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Mine (In no particular order):
1) Great lineup
2) Wide Games Variety
3) Free Developed and evolving Online Network
4) Uncharted 2
5) Ratchet & Clank: aCiT
6) Blu-ray
7) Free Online Gameplay
8) Demon's Souls
9) Killzone 2
10) Uncharted 2

Notice how games are a lot of the reasons. That's because Sony hasn't forgotten that people buy game systems for games...unlike Microsoft and Nintendo.

And yes, Uncharted 2 is listed twice :)

bjornbear5264d ago

I only need one reason.

Its the same reason that keeps multi-console or PS3 only owners playing it, and the same reason that keeps 360 only owners writing hilariously futile comments ( like yours ) all over the interwebz

Reason: ITS AWZUM!!!! =3

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Bumpmapping5264d ago

It Only Does Everything,including owning 3sh!tty in sales.

cyborg69715264d ago

1 through 10 It's not a 360.

MetalGearRising5264d ago

1. no games
2. only good for movies
3. freezes for no apparent reason at times
4. YLOD
5. patches,patches,patches,patche s,patches that never stops.
6. not worth the asking price.
7. psn is half baked with lacking features which will require a life time to catch up to xbox live.
8. lacks Voice chat across games.
9. u will be laughed at when you purchase a ps3 and lose friends.
10. no good exclusive's.

Mista T5264d ago

last time I thought patches were a good thing? it's always good to have devs supports your game

just have both you dumb arse :P

Bumpmapping5264d ago (Edited 5264d ago )

Top Ten Reasons To Not Buy 360 This Holiday
1. no games
2. only good for a heater....but it will eventually burn your house down.
3. freezes for no apparent reason at times
4. RROD/E74/Disc scratching
5. RROD'S,RROD'S,RROD'S,RROD's,RR OD'S that never stops.
6. not worth the asking price,still have to pay for,Xbox Live,bigger hardrive,warranty.
7. Xbox Live is half baked with lacking features which will require a life time to catch up to PSN (Dedicated servers,free online,Blutooth.
8. lacks next gen graphics across all games.
9. u will be laughed at when you purchase a xbox360 and lose friends and your 360 due to 60% failure rate.
10. no good exclusive's.

Bungie5264d ago

what are you talking about !!!

PS3 got games

it's just nobody want to buy them

Chet Faliszek 3605264d ago

good one metal gear.

ps3 is only for blu-ray watchers movies..

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Mista T5264d ago (Edited 5264d ago )

PS3 is an amazing console, and so is the xbox 360

it's great to be a multi console owner :P

but then my wallet well say otherwise when Mass effect 2, GT5, Splinter Cell Conviction, and God of War 3 come out, :0

gaffyh5264d ago

Good list but I would also add community, because although XBL community talks during gaming, they also have a lot of racist smacktalk, which would piss anyone over the age of 18 off. PSN community doesn't talk, but at least you can play in peace and quiet!

Mista T5264d ago

I have a bluetooth headset for my PS3, but I really don't use it ALL the time, some times it just gets so heated in the battle like in Killzone 2, MAG, BFBC2, or MW2, I just say F it and don't use the headset at all to concentrate more on what's going on

deadreckoning6665264d ago (Edited 5264d ago )

@gaffyh- I've experienced racism on the PS3 as well. I picked a black character on Rainbox Six: Vegas and when I got a kill, the guy screamed out "EFFING N****R" If there is more racist smack talk on the 360, then it would probably be due to the fact that there are more people on XBL than PSN and every 360 comes with a mic. Therefore, the odds of hearing racism on XBL as opposed to PSN are high.

U also mention that the PSN community doesn't talk. I consider this a bad thing in team based games like Warhawk and the Bad Company 2 beta.

gaffyh5264d ago

@above - True, but I think it's more to do with the XBL userbase being younger than the PSN userbase. And although you get racism on PSN (which personally I have never encountered), it is no way as bad as what I've heard from XBL.

The only game where you really need team based work is MAG, and A LOT of people use headsets in that, because you NEED it. In every other game, it is more of a luxury rather than a real need.

Sarcasm5264d ago

To put things in perspective, the FIRST time I actually caved in and bought XBL and played Halo 3 online, all I heard was N****r F*G B***H etc. etc.

Wow... And to top it off, some idiot kid kept screaming "I KILLLLLLLLLLLL YOUUUUUUUUUUUU" in the highest pitched voice possible.

Granted, there are many idiots on PSN as well especially playing COD. But the ratio of XBL idiots to PSN idiots is probably 5 to 1.

Redempteur5264d ago (Edited 5264d ago )

There is talk on PSN ...we just don't talk with anyone ..

When i play a team based game i talk ... otherwise i just play... and it's better that way ..

YOU DON'T NEED to talk in every game

i talk when i play MAG ..i talk in battle field bad company 2 ...

BUt i don't talk in every killzone game , same with uncharted, same with blazblue , with burnout paradise ... In these cases i only talk when i play with friends

And sometimes ( soul calibur ,rock band , wipeout hd ) i don't talk AT ALL ... because i don't wanna .

I'm not the only one doing this ... Having a mic shouldn't force me to talk when i don't want to

Saaking5264d ago

the 360's low price and dominance in NA has led to it being overrun by teen brats who love to say crap. The PS3's high price point (until now) has prevented this repulsive individuals from getting a hold of it.

shawnsl655263d ago

i have to talk playing uc2 co op.. like.. i'll take this corner etc etc. while the team run around and get the treasures

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Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell Of Ar Ciel Retro Review – Love Conquers All

Gary Green said: You’ll be forgiven if you haven’t heard of the Ar Tonelico trilogy. The previous two games arrived so late in the PS2’s life-cycle that they simply went unnoticed. While most were tinkering with their shiny new PS3s, Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia and Ar Tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica were being ‘returned to sender’ by your local Game stores. Luckily, you won’t need to have played them to understand and appreciate this third and final chapter, Qoga (pronounced k-yoga) tells the story of a racial war between humans and Reyvateils, a breed of biologically produced female cyborgs capable of reproduction, while still having a digital mind.

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Giga_Gaia1d 12h ago

Oh my god. I kinda wish this would get a remaster on PS5, it would be awesome. One of my favorite games on PS3.

That and 3D Dot Game Heroes. It's a shame that some stuff is stuck on PS3.

Knightofelemia1d 10h ago

Ar Tonelico 3 is good I still prefer the first AT game. The music is solid in all the games and Akiko Shikata is a very talented singer bringing life to the game. Only annoying part is well I find is Saki I always choose Finnel or Tyria. KOEI so needs to HD remaster the franchise along with Ar Nosurge and Ciel Nosurge since it never came to North America. I would day one the Ar Toneliceo games and Ar Nosurge if they were remastered.

TheColbertinator1d 9h ago

I still have the limited edition of Qoga unopened. Unfortunately it never went up in value like I had hoped all these years.

Father__Merrin1d 5h ago

Used to own all these quirky JRPG on ps3 good times. Wish I would have kept them all

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Mugen Souls Retro Review – Sexy Demon Space Adventure

Gary Green said: We have a juxtaposition of 2D and 3D visuals, flashy turn-based combat, quirky anime characters with cheeky dialogue with plenty of partial nudity; Yes, this is a Compile Heart JRPG. Whilst the engine is borrowed from Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2, Mugen Souls is more of a Disgaea spin-off. It’s not a strategy RPG as such, it merely sits within Disgaea’s ever-expanding universe (Multiverse? Netherverse? Your guess is as good as mine). You won’t find cameos though, since Mugen Souls is a franchise which aims to stand on its own two feet.

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Looking Back At 2008, An Unbelievably Incredible Year Of Video Game Releases

Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."

ChasterMies2d ago

Some of these low paid video game “news” writers weren’t born before 2007.

just_looken2d ago

Here here

Those that were around before 2000's i am sure are like me that think we entered a world of non readers or those that follow without question.

I can not wait to see fallout 3 a goty game even though it was about water with non content until you add the dlc/updates then you got the performance/crashing

CrimsonWing693d ago

I don’t think anything can compare to 2023

lucasnooker3d ago

1998 - the best year in gaming! Metal gear solid, crash bandicoot 3, medievil, half life, ocarina of time, thief, tenchu, resident evil 2, Spyro, tomb raider 3, oddworld abes exodus, banjo kazooie.

It was a different breed of a gaming era. You’ll never understand what it was like back then. The aura of gaming, it was different!

KyRo3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

I second this. Gaming was a lot more varied and fun than it is today. I'm 35 so getting on compared to some here but I got to see all the changes from NES up to now but I've never felt so disappointed in any generation than I have this current gen. I was expecting more from this generation rather than prettier versions of games that came before it. Game mechanics have become so refined that alot of games feel the same and has done for a while now.

Maybe it's time to have a break for a while. I love gaming but I don't feel I get much fun in the traditional sense out of it anymore.

CrimsonWing693d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 2, Abe’s Exodus, and Ocarina of Time are the only things from that list that I liked.

Here’s the 2023 game releases that I personally liked… and big releases that I didn’t care for:

- Dead Space Remake
- Wo Long Dynatsy
- Resident Evil 4 Remake
- Diablo 4
- Fire Emblem Engage
- Hogwarts Legcay
- Street Fighter 6
- Hi-Fi Rush
- Like a Dragon: Ishin
- Octopath Traveler 2
- Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters
- Final Fanatsy XVI (actually ended up not liking this, but it was still a big deal release)
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
- Lies of P
- Mortal Kombat 1
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Starfield (Ended up hating this one, but big release)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (I’m an old-school Zelda fan, but didn’t really enjoy this game)
- Alan Wake 2

I mean, honestly I’ve never seen a year of major IP releases like that, ever.

Profchaos3d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Isn't it just a generational thing realistically.

I've been gaming since way back and I some of my favourite games go as far back as the late 80s for me each generation has a year or two of game changing releases one after another before an inevitable dry spell.

I kind of agree gaming had a different feel games hit different because we didn't have the internet nothing got spoiled and you really had to put in the effort to beat a puzzle which could set entire groups of people looking for a solution. But most importantly games were experimental and not as cookie cutter as today even basics like controls were not universal today r2 is shoot l2 is ads garunteed you can't deviate from that in a shooter back then it could of been square, R1 or R1 and circle nothing was standard.

But as time moves on a new generation picks up their controller they are going to be interested in different things that PS1 demo disc with the t Rex blew our primitive 16 bit brains back on launch but to kids today it's laughable.
The new gen of kids coming into to hobby seem to value different things to us there seems to be a huge focus on online play, streamers, gaming personalities, and social experiences, convience of digital downloads. To me I value none of that but that's ok like my parents not liking the band's I would listen to its just the natural cycle.

Gameseeker_Frampt2d ago

Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.

2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.

just_looken2d ago

It still amazes me we got over 7 rockstar games ps2/ps3 but 3 for the ps3/ps4/ps5

Dragon age 1-3 and mass effect 1-3 in 7ish years what a generation.