i go with the ps3 all the way glory glory ps3 united
with all the pc fanboys i have answers to all your questions ...
1. hardware : probably ps3 has a better hardware configuration than a 80k pc easily because :
1.ps3 uses 512mb xdr ram so that is like ddrx ram .....not available for normal pc's
2.ps3 uses the cell broadband exngine which is basically a sort - of - new design architecture by IBM giving 6 physical cores with direct access to a huge amount of cache running on the same BUS.. so the probable output of the ps3 is likely same as that of the HD5980 / 5970 ...nearly 6 teraflops /second when you overclock the ps3 a little
3.the only thing sopping the ps3 back is the blu ray read / write speeds ... which is max 52mb/s so if we can push blu-ray to hdd read speeds pc performance is gonna go all the way down....
4.currently the games for the ps3 hardle utilise more than 60% processing power .... whereas when they reach the full limit the pc is gonna suck his mobo outta power beacuse of the awespiring gfx and physics.
5.the current ps3 processor in terms of technology is about 5 years advanced than a normal desktop processor .
2. price to performance factor ..
there is still atleast 3 years time when you will be able to buy a pc within 20k to run the recent games on 1080p with 60fps constant and full AA .AF etc...
the ps3 for the performance factor is 10x more economical than a pc
3. the ps3 has inbuilt support for plug and play usb devices... so you have no problem playing games like killzone 2 etc with a mouse and keyboard...
also the support for usb HID devices is built by the game developers and not sony... the ps3 natively supports all HID devices
4. titles are very expensive...
even when i am gonna buy a new ps3 after one month i am gonna look at the big hole in my wallet because of 20k for the ps3 250gb uncharted 2 bundle and addition 1.5k for killzone 2 platinum edition ... i totally agree with pc freaks that the ps3 is beaten hands down by the pc for the game price factor... the console games can never cost as much as pc games unless the method of developing games for the console is the same as the pc .... which is not possible ... otherwise what would be the need to create a console ??
lastly .... when you compare the ps3 to the pc as a media hub... it is THE gawd...
-ps3 has native hardware support and decoding for formats like divx ...
-ps3 which has been hacked by geohot .. the famous reknowned hacker of the iphone has allowed him to run his own kernels and execute his own commands over the ps3 engine... thus enabling him to install operating sytems like xp etc.... just imagine with that processing power ... the ps3 has unlimited potential
with all the pros about consoles... i think at least for the ps3 that it is the winner