New add on : Playstation 3

I have been a hardcore Microsoft fan for 6 years. Still is and will be in the future. Purchased an Xbox 360 and a HD-DVD player in 2006. You may see some of that blurbs in this same blog. Have never really been a Sony fan, nor have played a PS/PS2 game before. Of course the reason behind purchasing this are many, but i think a lot of that credit needs to go to the infamous Blu-ray brothers (Rit and Deepak). Yet another big reason was I d get a cheaper blur-ray player that could do many more than just play blu-ray movies. Plus there are some beautiful games that have been made for PS3 such as Resistance : Fall of man, Ninja Gaiden and the infamous PS titles such as God of War / God of War2 and the upcoming Killzone 2.


There was a very good offer on Amazon for the PS3 + 3 free blu-ray movies. Plus Sony has their five blu-ray movie offer (mail in of course). After using some gift cards (yet another complicated story, credit goes to Deepak), the price of the total bundle was 399$ with free two day shipping (again thanks to 30 day trial of Amazon prime, credit goes to Deepak too).


At first looks, PS3's black color gives it a sexy look, but the box is bigger and heavier than the xbox 360. Not to forget that the 360 has a big ass power supply (external) that you have to find space to hide. The PS3 controller is a lot smaller and compact compared to the 360 controller. The keys on the controller are very similar to a PC gamepad. On top of all this, for past 6 years, i have been used to Xbox/Xbox 360, that i m having a tough time getting used to the keys on the PS3 controller. I guess practice makes a man perfect.


So far the games i have got are Resistance Fall of man and NfS Carbon. Resistance looks awesome, but graphics could have been better. After all its a war game. NFS graphics look a little washed out, i guess they didnt port the game very well. Most of the other game demos have been downloaded from Playstation Store. Have to admit and i would rate, Ninja Gaiden Sigma as the best game for graphics on the PS3.

Bluray disc looks sweet on PS3. I am waiting to draw some comparison of how a movie looks on hd-dvd versus bd-rom, now that i have a Xbox 360 hd-dvd player and the BD-ROM player on PS3. . I will upload some pics of this benchmarking as soon as i get some time to do it. Bluray doesnt have cool features like hd-dvd movies have today (PIP Interviews etc). But definitely the picture clarity looks very sweet on the Bluray discs.


Too bad Sony doesnt have a similar service like Xbox Live has. That would have made the console complete. More pictures, game screenshots, comparison between 360 and PS3 are to follow as soon as I get some time....