I've got the 360 now I want a PS3

Forget all the fanboys, forget all of the corporate alliance, forget all of it. I've done all of my research, I know how the sales charts look, I don't friggin care, I just want one!

Looking back at the November launch last year, I admit I was excited I had the ebay account fired up and ready to sell the few that I could find in the hopes that I'd make enough money to own one of my own (sweet homonyms!). The first couple of days since it came out, the system was selling for ungodly amounts of money. I remember seeing prices in the $10,000 mark making me curse that I hadn't stood in the previous days leading up to the release.

Strange as all this price gouging was, it was nothing compared to the sudden flooding of the market (that Sony wasn't able to do with the PS2). The weeks after its release there were reports of PS3s sitting on the shelves in stores, hell even one of my friends managed to pick up the 40gb models (at a Wal-mart of all places!). You can now go into just about any retail store and pick up either an Xbox 360 or a PS3, but not a Nintendo Wii (this one I'll save for a later posting).

I bought my Xbox 360 last May, a whopping 6 months before you could consider getting a new system like the PS3, and was immediately happy that I had done so. I have had hours upon sleepless hours of fun playing games on my 360. I heard all of this noise about playing games in HD but I never truly understood what that meant until I hooked the system up to a 50" plasma TV at my parents house, that night I could have been found guilty of breaking no less than 3 commandments...I'll leave it up to you to guess which.

Since then, I've picked up a nice slightly used Sony Grand Wega 55" HDTV and hooked up the 360 'elite' up to it and have fallen in love with these games all over again. I've seriously started playing Oblivion all over again! Now things like HD-DVD and Blu Ray mean something to me...not only that but holy geez have you seen the videos for Metal Gear Solid 4?!? Holy Crap Cakes!!! I want me one of those!!!

With the things the way they are I am looking forward to being absolutely broke this holiday season with 20+ great games coming out from here to next January. Its not so much that one platform is better than the other, each has their own merits, but I am a gamer, nothing more, nothing less so I'll end up owning one sooner or later. I'm excited with how much competition there is with this current generation of gaming, its making things for us consumers all the more sweet.

Bottom line is...don't support just one system, they're all good, they all have good games either here right now or coming later but lets be good consumers and buy them all and stop all the stupid fanboy-ism.