Erm...God of War 3 anyone? This is reason enough for me to get a ps3. I read an article on the net saying that it took the ps2 game developers about 6 years to get games of the graphical quality of God of War 1 and 2 and Black, so given time, think of what ps3 will accomplish. BD disks hold about 50Gb, maybe a bit more, so think of the potential of how big the games can be, what their quality can be, their multiplayer capability, length of the game (short games suck). God of War 3 comin end of 2009 so far, i wont mind if they take another year, it'd just mean the game will be even better!
But the keywork in my above rant is 'POTENTIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!'
In a few years time when game developers understand the best ways of using the ps3's architecture, THEN the awesomeness will begin. I personally would like a ps3 though..for god of war 3, the bourne conspiracy, prototype, haze, need for speed 2008 (whatever it'll be called), mortal kombat vs dc universe, and probably more.
Your brother is 12 yrs old now, he'll be teen soon, and then all those awesome teen games will come out, teen games meaning violent games (unless no one cares if ur bro plays violent games lol), and hopefully the rudd govt will allow the sales of r18+ games in australia, that day will be a great day for gamers!!!