Games - PS3, GET!

I'll be honest here. I am an extremely late comer into the seventh generation of video game consoles, primarily because of the fact that the only system in my price range was the $200 Nintendo Wii. No offense to the Wii, which is a neat little console that does a lot with very little, or Nintendo, whose consoles I grew up on and who continually have the best damned customer service around; but the Wii's lineup of games was not particularly what I was looking for (Though I may consider getting one later on down the road, much as I did with the Gamecube last generation).

That said, when I heard about Sony's Playstation 3 - which to me, represented an untouchable black colossus - was getting a smaller iteration of itself coupled with an astounding price drop to $299 (around half the asking price for the original's 120 GB incarnation), I was ecstatic (The other console I was considering was the Xbox 360, whose 120 GB Elite model is also getting a price drop. However, fear of being hit with the dreaded Red Ring of Death loomed over me, thus influencing my decision; along with the fact that most PS3 games are not region-locked, which is always gold for an import gamer such as myself).

So, now I have a PS3, along with a rather cheap copy of a little giant robot boomfest known as Armored Core 4 Answer (cute naming there, From Software...), and the system is currently installing the latest firmware. Although I still have a rather sizable backlog of PS2 games that I still need to run through (I'll probably wind up rationing my free time between the two systems), I'm looking forward to being able to enjoy all kinds of awesome new games, the first bunch of which I'm considering are Blazblue, Tekken 6, Gundam Musou and its sequel, and Disgaea 3. I'm also looking forward to games yet to be released like Samurai-dou 3, and WWE: Smackdown VS. Raw 2010.

- Azure out.