New PS3/Nintendo Wii, gaming in general

[Olecranon]

In the next month or so, I'm going to purchase a 1080P Sony KDS-50A2000 HDTV.  I'll need a High Def Video player to take advantage of it, so I'll be picking up a PS3 when I can get ahold of one.  For me the HUGE selling point of the PS3 is it's ability to play Blu-Ray movies.  Right now stand alone Blu-Ray players are running about $900.  The PS3 is a bargain at $599.  My gut feeling is that Blu-Ray will beat HD DVD because of the PS3.

[Olecranon]

tonyvdb wrote:
Some of you have mentioned the BlueRay capabilities of the PS3. Dont get sucked into buying it because of that. The high deff output of the PS3 will never be as good as a stand alone player and the price has already come down on them since they first came out. By mid next year more companies will have High deff players out and the price will fall. Nintendo put alot of effort into the development of the Wii and the ingenious controller will make games fun to play again. The Wii is also 100% backwards compatible playing all the N-game cube games as well as downloading all the rom games from the N-64 so its got my vote.

That might be true if a person is going to use an analog high definition connector (component) to connect the PS3 to their TV.  Connecting via HDMI (digital high def) yields the same results as a stand alone Blu Ray unit.  There are already reviews out that confirm this.