I am not trying to be comparable, I am trying to make it make sense as a video gaming console.
'HD is in their DNA' but the PS3 comes with... composite cables? These are the same cables that came with the SNES I think, no? DS3s are available... in Japan. No announced release date for the US yet. MonoPrice.com for those people familiar with their online resources (not as many people as we'd suspect hope) about such things is only a small consolation.
My point of even posting in this thread though, it's good that they're focusing on what the PS3 is good at - playing movies. Their marketing does a good job on everything else too now, hopefully the product development follows suit.
Not even comparable. Now that I've gotten into gaming late in life after buying a PS3, and I look at a 360 to play some of their exclusives, I stop myself when I realize I'll have to spend at least another $179 to play HDM and $100 for wireless network capabilities... For that amount of money I could just upgrade my desktop PC and still have some left over to buy games!
It would be stupid to buy an addon for a 360 with standalone prices being where they are at. The wireless stuff is a good point, but anyone with a decent home theater setup these days should have a wireless access point near/at it anyways with the way everything is connecting these days.
Not to mention mine does not have an HDMI out port.
Guessing your TV doesn't have VGA as well? If not what are you missing (are there any current limitations to that setup)? All new models of the 360 have had an HDMI port added. It's a shame that I'd have to buy a PS2 now to get the specs out of the PS3 that I expected it to have when I did finally buy one.