Hi lovely people.
I've got a question for you. I hope you don't mind.

I've been saving quite a bit of money from my last months of work and finally I got enough for a PS3.
Wait, wait, wait, aren't these like 300 these days?
Well, yes, and no. My country's currency is devaluated 4-to-1.
1200, then?
No, still no. On average, they cost somewhere between 2000 and 2500 (160 gb. model).

So I said, well, I'll get a PS2 instead! (800) but I know little about it and I'd like to have your opinion on it on terms of hardware and games.
I like (mostly) action based games: shoot-em-ups, platformers, rhythm/music, run and gun, hack and slash, some RTS, maybe some TPS and maybe some strategy. No FPS and no turn-based RPG.

What do you say?