Again with the price cut. The sheer idiocy of the people that try to reason a price-cut is getting ridiculous. Sony already takes a loss on each system, and cutting the price will serve to move more systems, but at a greater loss. If they get the manufacturing costs down they can do it, but right now it is unreasonable, and the arguments for it are asinine. Say what you really feel" I want a PS3 but I want to pay what I would for a DVD player with an HD"(ie an XBOX). Don't try to use extremely flawed logic. It makes the whole gaming community appear incompetent.

I'm sure none of those ideas have ever occured to Sony in the many, many meetings they've had about this exact subject.

Pretty sure they've all been mentioned to hell and back, this is certainly nothing new. However I do wish that CAPCOM (you paying attention, you cheap *bleep*s?) would QUIT making their games dump a 5 Gig load on the Hard drive.

Sony should just quit if they're losing so much money and everyone should just buy xbox's as they're far superior.

i believe sony kids are defending the PS3s price because they shelled out 600$ for the damn thing and now they'll be pissed aif anyone else actually gets it for a reasonable price.

the ps3 is a *bleep*ing mortgage payment. i dont care how many shiny new pieces of hardware are glued into the damn thing - it is too damn much money for a video game console.

PS3 and price cut = #2

I'd have to agree that those things would be nice, but I'm right there with Tiger and Silver. Sony have definitely already thought of this, but currently can't. Yet I expect some of those things to end up happening sometime in the future within the life of the PS3.

I agree with the personzlized music in-game. It's something that the 360 has and would be quite enjoyable to have on the PS3.

I can't stand people who whine about the mandatory installs. It's. Not. That. Bad. C'mon, you do it every single time you want to play a PC game but you never see anyone complain about that. The fact is console gaming is getting closer and closer (in terms of technology) to a PC, so it only makes senese to having an install. Running code off of the hard drive is a lot faster than running it from an optical drive. If the hdd install complainers aren't complaining about the install they're complaining about load times. Seriously people, get over it The time it takes to install you can be doing something constructive like spending time with your kids, family, writing your memoirs, w/e. I wonder if the majority of the people who complain about this are the ones who sit there waiting through the entire install, or if they understand the technological reasons behind installations.

Hmm cross game chat I'm on the fence about. With vent on the PC I always found it chaotic to be in the same channel as someone else who was playing a different game if they weren't playing by themselves. I don't want to hear about your -50 DKP in WoW when I'm playing L4D. BUT it is good for just general socialization in smaller groups.

You know, I remember a couple months back when people kept going on and on about 2009 being PS3's big year, and so far all I've heard about is slumping console sales and lack of software support. Where will the madness end?

1. never really seen the appeal unless you were going to do something like a match vid.

2. some installs and DLs are probably bloated, but I don't see this as a big problem.

A version that comes with some stuff already on the HDD could be interesting.

3. OK, although at the same time you lose the ability to turn Jerk McKnowitall off by switching games.

4. Ok, but how much of that is Sony and how much is HDnet itself?

5. Here's the thing. If you didn't jump on before the current versions came out, you're paying the same prices for less stuff. There's certainly lots of discussion on the cost of the emotion engine and such, but not on other things like the card slots.

Can we get a proper music visualiser please? In-game music would be cool, but I mean, any PC released this decade can give me a proper visualiser. Why not my PS3?