Reason to buy a new system

With the exception of hard-code gamers that just have to have the best graphics and hardware available (which is obviously the PS3), is there really a compelling reason to purchase a next-gen system? Does the PS3 really offer anything new and exciting, or anything so enormously obvious and great that you just have to have it?



I started with an atari 2600. the NES was a huge advance over it, and I had to have it. Same with SNES over the NES, and then the PS1 over the ... [read more]