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Oww common, I have waited long enough now and nobody made this one yet. Well, not recently anyway and as my opinion has changed in the years...
Before this thread, this was my only forum without this thread. It's almost like missing the "word association", "what are you listening", "pirates vs ninja's" or "star wars vs star trek".. These are essentials..
P.S. I don't think the wii belongs here. I know way too many people having a wii on the side, including myself. The thing was so cheap (Although so far it costed me more than my 360 with all the remotes and stuff) and innovative that everyone wanted one. Clearly in sales, the wii has won and can no longer be beaten.
So much for my intro.
I'll start where my opinion has changed. I used to favor the PS3 in winning. Not because I favor Sony, but because of what the PS2 did to this world. I figured that Sony has won with his brand "playstation" and it wouldn't be easy taking it's crown.
After the RRoD and scratched dvd on the 360, I thought the battle was over.
But it's not. For a hardware-inferior machine, the 360 sales still top the PS3 sales. Even though the 360 is somewhat older as well. So I started looking at the past and this is why I changed my opinion. Clearly the PS3 tops the hardware of the 360. This is also found in it's price. But if we look at the previous generation, it was not the best hardware (The XBOX) that won, it wasn't a good name (the gamecube) that sold, but it was the worst hardware for a cheap price (The playstation 2) that made people buy consoles. The dreamcast was plagued by the bad sales of the saturn, sadly enough.. (In fact, it was always the superior expensive machines that lost, see the Neo Geo or 3DO)
The PS2 had tons and tons of games and some exclusives. Guess what the 360 is doing now..
Innovation is still a big thing. The PS2 came with a DVD player and that must have won a lot of gamers as the DVD player was still very new in that age. In the beginning I thought the Blurayplayer of the PS3 would do the same, but you know what... I think bluray will never get the popularity as DVD did. In fact, I am allready placing all my own DVD's on my harddisc. With the size of HD's and the speed of internet nowadays, I don't want to fill my room with discs and boxes!!! Bluray was allready oldschool before it could venture the world. By the time people start needing it, the rest will be fast enough to download or stream your HDmovies.
Innovation doesn't stop there. Nintendo gave them a workingarea and both are now into motiondetection...Whooo.....exciting... Only motiondetection is the reason why so many wii's are collecting dust allready. It might gain some allroundplayers, but those allready have their wii. Hardcoreplayers don't want to be fit, or move weirdly with their arms during gaming. They want to be lazy and sit in their chairs with a controller that fits in both hands. Or to make it sound more possitive, we don't want movement around us that distract us from making headshots.
Ooh, this is allready longer than I originally wanted. Let's wait a few posts now to see reactions
Before this thread, this was my only forum without this thread. It's almost like missing the "word association", "what are you listening", "pirates vs ninja's" or "star wars vs star trek".. These are essentials..
P.S. I don't think the wii belongs here. I know way too many people having a wii on the side, including myself. The thing was so cheap (Although so far it costed me more than my 360 with all the remotes and stuff) and innovative that everyone wanted one. Clearly in sales, the wii has won and can no longer be beaten.
So much for my intro.
I'll start where my opinion has changed. I used to favor the PS3 in winning. Not because I favor Sony, but because of what the PS2 did to this world. I figured that Sony has won with his brand "playstation" and it wouldn't be easy taking it's crown.
After the RRoD and scratched dvd on the 360, I thought the battle was over.
But it's not. For a hardware-inferior machine, the 360 sales still top the PS3 sales. Even though the 360 is somewhat older as well. So I started looking at the past and this is why I changed my opinion. Clearly the PS3 tops the hardware of the 360. This is also found in it's price. But if we look at the previous generation, it was not the best hardware (The XBOX) that won, it wasn't a good name (the gamecube) that sold, but it was the worst hardware for a cheap price (The playstation 2) that made people buy consoles. The dreamcast was plagued by the bad sales of the saturn, sadly enough.. (In fact, it was always the superior expensive machines that lost, see the Neo Geo or 3DO)
The PS2 had tons and tons of games and some exclusives. Guess what the 360 is doing now..
Innovation is still a big thing. The PS2 came with a DVD player and that must have won a lot of gamers as the DVD player was still very new in that age. In the beginning I thought the Blurayplayer of the PS3 would do the same, but you know what... I think bluray will never get the popularity as DVD did. In fact, I am allready placing all my own DVD's on my harddisc. With the size of HD's and the speed of internet nowadays, I don't want to fill my room with discs and boxes!!! Bluray was allready oldschool before it could venture the world. By the time people start needing it, the rest will be fast enough to download or stream your HDmovies.
Innovation doesn't stop there. Nintendo gave them a workingarea and both are now into motiondetection...Whooo.....exciting... Only motiondetection is the reason why so many wii's are collecting dust allready. It might gain some allroundplayers, but those allready have their wii. Hardcoreplayers don't want to be fit, or move weirdly with their arms during gaming. They want to be lazy and sit in their chairs with a controller that fits in both hands. Or to make it sound more possitive, we don't want movement around us that distract us from making headshots.
Ooh, this is allready longer than I originally wanted. Let's wait a few posts now to see reactions
