Late December my 360 finally bricked. I decided that I didn't want my blood pressure to go any higher and decided to purchase a PS3. However, as most people know $499 dollers is a lot of money and although I did have a good 700 clams ready I wanted to go for the best possible deal.

At the time Walmart (yes I know they are evil) was offering a Christmas Deal which involved a PS3, a game of your choice, and a glowstand. The problem was it was the 80 Gig veriety, which meant crappy backwards compatibility. Being a total n00b I decided not to buy it first and wait until after the holidays, thinking that by January they'd have some 60 Gigs on hand or maybe even bigger discounts.

There was even a sale for Call of Duty 4 and Assassin's Creed, both for a mere 39 and 49 clams each. I had a strong feeling that I wanted these games but I wanted to wait again till after the holidays. I was wrong on both counts.

Then on January 3rd I caved and went to Amazon to order my stuff and paid nearly full price for that 80 gig that I wanted plus some games (Resistance,Unacharted,COD4, and Ratchet), I decided to "save" money and go with the Super Saver Option. Its the 14th now and I still haven't gotten my stuff. And once again my blood pressure is going through the roof talking with Amazon's customer service.

Goes to show that being cheap and holding back is not always a good idea.

For the most part, I enjoy the thought of downloadable content, extra maps for Gears of War, extra songs for Rockband, heck maybe in the future they'll have extra characters for fighting games like Guilty Gear or Tekken.

However, there is some reason for concern. What is going to keep developers from "holding back" certian features they would have otherwise added to the game. Imagine playing your favorite RPG, in my case Suikoden, and finding out that in order to recruit the last 8 characters for the 108 Suiko Stars would cost an additional $ 5.99, or playing as the Manchester United and Real Madrid in Fifa will cost an additional $ 1.99 a pop,? Worst case scenario would be that the ending of a game would cost you an additional $ 10! See where im getting at? I think it was better in thePS2 days,sure, there was no chance of getting extra stuff other then actual stuff like comic books and action figues, but at least you know you were getting the complete deal and you knew where you stood.

So far, nobody has abused this feature, except maybe for EA's Need For Speed Need for Speed: ProStreet and Guitar Hero 3... but still, its only a matter of time.

I love backward compatibility, I remember using my PS2 to play Suikoden2 and Final Fantasy 9, why don't I use my PS for those games?Because it it wouldn't belogical, if my PS2 can play PS1 games thenI technically have two systems, and having one system in display is more convinient since I live in a box. The other reason is because im a nut, I believe that when a new system is "born" its time for the older one to "retire", it just hurts too much to bring the good ol girl back for one more go after I packed her away nicely in the basement.

I knowshould have gotten the 20 GB or the 60 GB, it had backward compatibility. Yes, I know the 80 gig has BC but its not the same, from what I've been hearing software BC sucks.Now, 60 GB will set me back 600 beans PLUS shipping if I buy it from the crooks at Ebay seeing how all the other stors are "sold out".

Now Wallmart is offering a "special" where if you buy the 80 gig you get a free game (aside from motorstorm). sounds good to me. problem is, I love backward compatibility and crappy BC is no BC at all.

So now I have 3 options,

1. I buy it for 600 bucks over at Ebay and hope it isn't bricked.

2. I cave in and spend about 750 clams for an 80 gig plus 4 great PS3 games (since Walmart offers 1 extra game)

3. I wait, and rant some more.

sigh... maybe I should just buy a Wii.