Well, that explains it. With PS3's final form taken shape, tell me what you think. I am pretty much clueless.

While I am excited about Halo 3 (not that I'll get to play it), the Revolution* is the only console that can get me excited. I was initially dubious, but the remote actually looks like a pretty cool control system. Not to mention Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Twilight Princess with an arrow aiming system that might not suck. Add to that the fact that I'll probably be able to buy 2 of them and a bunch of games plus extra controllers for the same price as a PS3 and they've got a pretty good bang for your buck ratio.

And on that note, I was looking forward to the PS3, but once they announced the price, and their finicky-looking we-like-to-be-unoriginal controller, I lost interest. No thanks Sony, I think I'll buy that tropical island I've been eyeing instead.

*Wii sounds stupid. Henceforth I will call it the Revolution.

Nintendo's offering seems to be the best for a casual gamer. I feel very little need to replace my Xbox with a 360 version, whereas the Revolution could be terribly cool.

Ultimately I got my Xbox for Halo and Halo 2 and then added games from there. I will get a 360 (at a reduced price next year) for Halo 3 and go from there.

The Revolution is going to be the first console I buy since the Dreamcast. I think that says it all.

Revolution. Before it was Cube, PS2, xbox in my opinion, but with the bullshit sony is pulling they're dead last now. It really seems to me that both the 360 and the ps3 have a bunch of extra options that not everyone needs which drive up the price. The 360 at least they're optional, but with sony they aren't and they really drive up the price. The sticker shock of the console + Controllers + memory card + cable for the TV if you want it is going to hurt. Somewhere in the area of $750 possibly and then there's tax. I have a job. It pays well. I live in las vegas. For that price...I could probbaly get a hooker.

Yay! But I think I will wait a year after the PS3 comes out so it will be maybe one or two hundred cheaper. I was talking to a couple friends yesterday and we thought that the new systems would probably look terrific with a HDTV. Alas, I don't have one.

But can you connect a hooker up to Xbox Live? I rest my case.

As I've said in the PS3 topic, I'm not buying any of them for a while I don't think. Have to say that the 360 is looking best from my point of view at the moment - they seem to have done well getting it out early and it's got some nice games.

Most likely I shall buy one of the three roughly this time next year. We'll see what the situation is then. The range of games for the Wii is still unclear, and information in general on the PS3 is scarce.

The Wii right now because I already have an Xbox 360. I might buy a PS3 once the price comes down a few hundred dollars, but it's doubtful I'll get one launch day.

Mine had pictures

I'm still going for a Wii

We can rebuild her, we have the technology.

Grrrr.



Yay! Cyborg hookers!

How long do you think the PS3 will take to get down to a reasonable price?

Where's my "None of them" option?

Actually theres some interesting tech out there that requires a lightning rod, lots of salt, some cables, and of course a hunched back assistant that.....you know what nevermind.

Sidenote: I can't hook my gamecube up to Xbox Live either...or my PC....or my mac. I don't see that as a downside.

It looked like he was talking about the PS3 there...

The only I'm on considering is the Wii so I vote for that.

There isn't (obviously). If you want to chose none of them, just give input, I guess.

While I may end up with all of them, I currently consider the 360 to be the front runner.

Historically, I have favored each of the game companies over the competition at the time. I supported Nintendo through the SNES, but I grew distant with them around the time of the N64. Around that point in time I lost interest in Nintendo's exclusive game library. Also beginning with the N64, trying to use Nintendo's "innovative" controllers has been an increasingly agonizing exercise in hand cramps.

I really started supporting the original Playstation around 1999. The games that were available were more interesting to me, and at the time I was mostly playing Squaresoft games. In addition, the Dual Shock controller was much more natural for me to hold. I followed Sony through the PS2 launch, and I sill generally prefer their titles to those of Nintendo.

I wasn't sure what to think of the XBox when it originally came out. There weren't many games I was interested in, which prevented me from buying one for myself. I did play Halo quite a bit at a friend's house, both single and multi player, and I really enjoyed it. Beyond that, the original XBox controller, the one everyone complained about, fit perfectly in my hands. It is still the most comfortable controller I have every used, and I was quite disappointed when it was discontinued. I've adapted to the newer XBox controller, and it is still more comfortable for me than any other controller. Now that many previously exclusive games are coming out for multiple platforms, I prefer using my XBox and 360 to other consoles, and I doubt that will change much in the near future.

The Revolution/Wii seems to be the only console that's a true gaming console, not an entire home entertainment system.

I'm sorry, but the PS3 will just be better. I beleive it's good that the system has everything from dvd player to music stereo. Also, I have heard a well supported rumour that you will be able to use PS2 controllers with it. The nintendo controllers are good, but all I have used are either too responsive, or don't work. The 360 has great graphics, but thats about it. The PS3 will be better than the others in its sheer game capacity, because, (like Xbox?), it can use games from previous consoles, and PS2 has alot of games to start with. My point is that, even though you get great looks, or direct gaming performance; the PS3 will be a whole lot smoother all around. (Thanks to smart japanese programmers).

That statement made no sense. Smoother how? Smoother gameplay? Smoother use? What?

And I could say the same thing about the PS3 – it has great graphics, and that's about it.

Sheer game capacity? The Xbox can play 200+ original Xbox titles and will eventually be able to play them all. The PS3 will only be able to play approved titles, and even then a bunch of them will be similar. Who wants to play the 4th iteration of the same game? Or when you can play the new one that's undoubtedly going to be released? And if we're going for games from previous consoles, the Wii looks likely to best both the X360 and PS3 easily.

EDIT: And just because you can play all the older titles doesn't mean you'll have them. So back-compat isn't as big a point as it could be.

So please, provide a little more info. I'd like to know more exactly why you consider the PS3 'better.'

KT

Mongoose: your argument basically seems to be "The PS3 will be better because you can pretend that it's a PS2". Playing old games is great and all, but the thing about old games is that I've already played them. I want something new out of my gameplay.

If you want a PS2, buy a PS2. It'll save you $500 or so trivially, and the games are cheaper too.

"Approved games" are apparently those which conform to the Technical Requirements Checklist/Criteria. This seems to be the equivalent of supported code, and I don't really see why many games do not use it.

Maybe game programmers can write cleaner, more efficient code, which allows their games to look better/play better? That's the only reason not to use it, really.

True, but there's always the "you can't guarantee this will work anywhere other than here and now" potential.

Personally, I'd be tempted to incorporate the chips in the previous versions, although the cost would likely be insane.

Totally Wii (I like how everyone's still calling it the Revolution) here. I plan on making it the first video game console that I've purchased in... well it will be the first I've ever actually personally bought for myself. Simply because I love games, the new input method looks very promising and I don't want to miss out on something potentially that awesome, and damned if I don't want to play some of the games that are sure to be on the virtual console. (Have fun getting a Chrono Trigger cart for SNES these days for less than $70. If it's not on there, someone will die.)

Not to mention, GC games just keep getting cheaper, and there is a significant quantity of top-notch titles.

If I were to get anything else it would probably be a 360, since I'm a bit of a Halo fan. But not before I have an HDTV so that my $400 will serve some purpose. Though, a console just for one game is impossible to justify.

In short, the Wii is a gaming machine. 360 is mostly a gaming machine, but offers extraneous stuff I don't need for too much money and not enough fun/good games that aren't Halo. PS3 is totally out of the question. I don't need or want Blu-Ray, and I don't need to drop $600 just to play the next Final Fantasy game. (Though admittedly some of the games coming out for it look godly.) Any way you cut it, the Wii is the best value this generation, even if Nintendo bumps the price to $250.

The Rev/Wii wins the backwards compatibility contest hands down.


I just did that last week when I saw that Gamestop lowered their price to $130; all I need to do now is find a copy of Katamari and get an old PS1 Memory card for the PS1 games that I'd formerly been playing with a buggy emulator on my computer.


I'm glad that I found a copy years ago, but I'll probably download it anyway when my last working controller breaks.


Especially if it's anything like 12. From what I saw of 12's combat system from playing the demo, I'll never even be tempted to buy it.

To be honest, I still haven't seen much reason to be an FF fanboy, the way some people are. I have played FF7, and it certainly had some truly great parts, but it didn't do much to dissuade me of considering Chrono Trigger to be the best of that genre. And I've played some of the newer ones two, but after playing KOTOR, FF just seems completely outmoded. Unless you acknowledge that it is in no way an RPG.