Virtua Fighter 5 is set to be a classic
PS3 also has non-game, non-DVD goodies, including interface to upload your digital photos and music and to download content from the Internet, although anyone with even a vaguely modern mobile phone won't be unduly moved by features like those.
The real reason you'd buy a PS3 is to play games, and while the launch line-up features some good titles, none of them feel like the "killer application" that makes you buy a console just to play it.
Leading lights amongst March's releases include Resistance: Fall of Man, a deep and involving first-person shooter; Ridge Racer 7, Namco's traditional contribution to every Sony console launch; Motorstorm, a spectacular-looking dirt track racing game and the wonderful Virtua Fighter 5, one of the finest fighting games ever made (Read our PS3 game previews and reviews).
"Virtua Fighter 5 is one of the finest fighting games ever made."
Other titles including Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 8, Call of Duty 3 and Virtua Tennis 3 are much as they are on the cheaper Xbox 360.
At £425 + £40 for a game, unless you've been waiting your whole life for a Blu-ray player or actually have PlayStation tattoos, buying a PS3 in its opening few months is probably hard to justify, but based on the early promise shown in its software the real power of PS3 may well only become clear in its second wave of releases.
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Published 21st March 2007
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