Well after careful concideration and research I decided against buying a PS3. It's an expensive piece of kit and it's not really backwards compatable with PS2 or PSO games. The only problem is that I have some PS2 games I really want to play. So I took the decision today to trade-in my PSO (which I got a £5 for) and get myself a PS2, which I got slim line, and no kidding it's slim. I also got a few new games for it. PS2 is compatable with PSO games so I don't need to worry about the hours of gaming I've done and I can just keep playing as if I have a PSO.
the PS3 can wait.