The PS3's Blu-Ray player is only relatively good value compared to other Blu-Ray players (even though they start at about £220, I'd recommend the £299 PS3 over players because the PS3 will likely support the final Blu-Ray standard when it's completed). For me, £300 is not a good price for an HD disc player which offers very little over (£10) DVD except better picture/sound quality and more expensive movies. Blu-Ray players and the PS3 will undoubtedly be far cheaper in future, so unless you're foaming at the mouth with how awful your DVD collection looks right now, it's surely preferable to wait until Blu-Ray 2.0 players are £99 and the movies are cheaper.
kalniel, if Residual already owned a 360 (which he did) and bought a PS3 for the exclusives, which are now coming out on 360 anyway, then that is definitely going to impact the PS3's value for him. If I already had a 360, I'd see if I could sell my PS3 on eBay for roughly what I paid for it, and then probably/possibly buy one again in future when it offers better value. If I didn't have a 360, I'd hold onto the PS3 for the multi-region, cheap import games and keyboard/mouse support.
PS3s with BC have occasionally increased in value since Sony reneged on their Playstation "core values", interestingly - every so often on eBay, the price spikes for them.
Edit: and lol at revol68.
RE5 will honestly be less racist on PS3 than on 360, because you'll be playing it on a black console.
