360 or PS3??

[nash]

Guess you'll be selling your superman returns figure now? me me me!

 

[Seth Gecko]

lol



mayyyyyyybe!

 

[nash]

You better let me know

PS: check your pm

 

[gbeef]

it will be a close race on both terms. Playstation doesnt have the market nich or killer app yet. as for speciality games like Mg4 and FF series. The problem is developers are kinda choke at sony, because there only have 1million units on the market selling slowwwwwwww. The problem is why put out a game for when the system base is 1 million, when they could put there game out to a system base of 10million(360). it happended to virtual figther 5... square is coming out with a FF game and Mg4.... konomi is in talks.

 

[tomandshell]

It's funny--Sony just had to shove Blu-ray down everybody's throats, and now they are reaping the benefits of that choice. I believe that the higher costs associated with the HD drive just won't sell the console to Joe Public. The geeks who just had to have one ASAP have made their purchase, and now that the initial sales splash has been made, we are looking at quite a lot of $600 consoles lining store shelves. The average person just won't pay that kind of money. Meanwhile, it's still hard to get your hands on a Wii. Half the price of even the cheapest PS3 and it has a ton of games available--plus it's fun for mom and dad and grandpa to play. It's clear that the video game industry is driven by families and kids a lot more than by rich technophiles. Sony's loss is Nintendo's gain.

And with previously exclusive titles like Grand Theft Auto now going to the 360 as well, the writing is on the wall. Developers would have to be stupid to stay exclusive to the PS3 right now. The industry will continue to shift to non-platform-exclusive titles because that's where the money is. Final Fantasy will be too little, too late. (Although I predict the opposite for Halo 3.) Rockstar is going to make more money releasing GTA4 on the 360 (with exclusive downloadable content) than the PS3--and that is going to send a very loud message to the powers that be.

 

[nash]

I still think Sony will pull through. Im not even worried about it. they'll make great games either way. There's no way developers will compeletely shun out making games for PS3 regardless of the Wii or 360.

and we all know the porn industry is going to go blu-ray, which imo will turn the tides for blue-ray overtaking HDdvd in the format wars and then ultimately the console wars to ps3s favor.

 

[Seth Gecko]

lol porn!

According to industry experts The PS3 will be THE system to have in a year or so.(nothing wrong with the 360 at all)tom you got a pS3 right?The PS3 hardware has not even been close to being tapped into.(and thats what made my decision)it's all preference just choose what ya like.

hell i just want SW games and GTA anyways lol.

 

[nash]

it's true though, porn was the catalyst that boosted VHS over Beta. And it's going to do the same for Blue-Ray/PS3. Whether you like it or not, porn is a huge media industry that has a lot of control over the market.

 

[tomandshell]

and we all know the porn industry is going to go blu-ray, which imo will turn the tides for blue-ray overtaking HDdvd in the format wars and then ultimately the console wars to ps3s favor.

Actually, after Blu-ray said they didn't want porn, some companies have already started releasing porn on HD DVD instead (LINK). Some porn companies are releasing titles on both formats. So even the porn industry is divided and we can't look to them to bring about an end to the format war.

(And if you can't turn to the adult film industry for help, where else can you go?)



In the past, Disney had pornos turn up on discs printed and packaged as "Pinocchio" due to major goofs at the replication center. So they will not use a company to manufacture their discs that also services the porn industry to make sure that mix-ups like that don't happen. As a result, one porn company that wanted to release on Blu-ray said that "all Blu-ray Disc copying facilities in the United States had refused to cooperate." If Disney pledges to take their business away from any disc manufacturer that also works with the adult film industry, then the porn folks are going to have a hard time getting their product onto store shelves. (Or into dimly lit back rooms, I should say.) Hence the switch to HD DVD. Blu-ray manufacturing is completely new, but HD DVDs can be made with a little bit of an upgrade from regular DVD pressing technology. So it is going to be 100 times easier and cheaper for the adult film industry to actually get their discs manufactured on HD DVD rather than Blu-ray.

 

[tomandshell]

tom you got a pS3 right?

Yes, I have a 360, a PS3 and a Wii. The 360 gets the most use. The Wii is fun but the graphics are awful. The PS3 gets the least use by far because there just aren't any good games out there.

 

[Seth Gecko]

do you got your tv set to 480p for the wii otherwise it'll suck?(looks fine on my regular tv.

 

[Vader AL]

i finally have my wii-60 after picking up a wii a few weeks ago. it's a great side console and perfect for parties...had to kick people out of my house last weekend because it was 3 in morning and they were still bowling! 360 all the way though....superior graphics are not the answer, xbox blew ps2 out of the water in that department, but games and online play. ps3' "house" looks like it will be horrible...good concept though and the graphical capibilities vs the 360 are marginal. but it's all up to personal preference.

 

[Seth Gecko]

The Wii with any system is a great compliment to them.(I choose PS3 cause of the overheating issues with 360 and i hear the PS3 runs like a whisper.And i just don't care for M$)But they're all good and it just comes down to yes preference, but everyone's gotta have a Wii at some point.

 

[Seth Gecko]

I dunno PS3's "home" looks kinda neat to me check out the images.

https://ps3.ign.com/articles/770/770998p1.html

 

[nash]

i like the interface on the ps3 over the 360. i could never understand where anything was on my roomates 360.

 

[The Josh]

I'll take my 360 over a PS3 and I've always been a Sony guy. I have no trouble finding anything on the 360. Not hard at all.

 

[hairlesswookiee]

i like the interface on the ps3 over the 360. i could never understand where anything was on my roomates 360.

i agree it does look a lot cleaner, but IMO almost too boring for the screen. i like how you can make custom wallpapers like on a computer. however, i think they ran out of ideas and just copied what they had on the PSP. i also like the 360 interface a little better... you just need to spend a few minutes playing with it to get the hang of it. the only time i had problems was when i hooked up my computer with media center, but i think that was advanced use and they probably fixed that with a firmware update.

 

[tomandshell]

I have spent some time with both, and I prefer the 360 interface--the PS3 is too plain, boring and utilitarian for me. It left me thinking, "That's it?"

 

[Seth Gecko]

Not a console fanboy love em all.But i just got my PS3 today and it is B A UUUU- tiful.Quite as a whisper and slick as hell looking.(didn't look that shiney in pics)Downloaded motorstorm and a few other games from the online and i will for sure be getting Motorstorm(love that)Graphics are killer even on my regular TV(will be updating to HDTV sometime this fall/winter prices will be even lower)I've played all the next gen systems and they're all good just comes down to preference.

But i love tekken, MGS(yes venny i do)Devil may cry exclusives like that.Even though i think the days of LONG exclusives for any system is coming to a close soon enough.So thats why i picked PS3 the games,("home" looks awesome this fall)the looks and the blu-ray is already inside it. so when i get an HDTV i'm all set.Say what you will against blu-ray and HD-TV i don't see a clear winner for some time yet in that Dept..But still love that Wii!!!!happy gaming this 2007 with SM3 GT4 and whatever else you're into.

thx for no force unleashed lucasarts.(better be ****in mind blowing now!!)

 

[user 1190]

do you got your tv set to 480p for the wii otherwise it'll suck?(looks fine on my regular tv.

So you have to play with black bars is you have a widescreen TV with the Wii or suffer from bad zoomed graphics?

I don't have one but if its not going to look good on my TV or have to deal with the black bars on the side I guess that just killed Wii for me.

The black bars for extended periods of time can be bad for the TV.