When looking to get the most out of a gaming console, PlayStation 3 offers a great gaming system as well as the standard blue ray player. It also makes sense from a historical gamer’s point of view. PlayStation has been around for a long, long time. As players have gone thru generation after generation of PS releases, their collections of PlayStation games have grown.  Most PlayStation 3 consoles are backwards compatible meaning you can play all of your old PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 games on PlayStation 3. This makes the console an automatic purchase for those SONY fans out there that have been playing since the first generation was released years ago.

While the past PlayStation had come standard as a DVD player, this edition is a blue ray player. The graphics and quality of movies played on this console are amazing and really bring to life anything you watch. As blue ray has now become the standard in the DVD war, it would only make sense to get a PS3 if you are a gamer and a movie lover! While its original price was much higher then its competition, SONY has released other models with less memory or limited features to become more competitive with Xbox and WII. One thing to watch out for is that not all models are backwards compatible. If you are do have old games you want to play, make sure you check that your model can do it before buying it.