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Wiii, PS3 or XBox 360?
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Which are you gonna buy and why? If you've already bought/preordered one - why?
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For me, I'm going to take a good look at the Wii. But I haven't owned a console since the PS1 days back in 1996 time.
Before the PS1, games consoles were about the games, and the enjoyment of them. When it came out, Sony knew that they had a battle against Sega with their Saturn, so had to beat them somehow. The Sony was a technically better system, so Sony pushed the graphics of their games, and how much technically better the console was.
Since that time, it's always been about the graphics, perhaps just as much or more-so than then games themselves. Parents not knowing which system to get for their children look at a pair of systems in a shop, and end up going for the one that looks the most impressive.
The PS3 and the 360 are both impressive systems, but they both heavily push their graphics capabilities, and are essentially just the PS2 and XBOX with greater capabilities.
The Wii actually tries to introduce new ideas of how to place games, with its innovative controller. Of course, Nintendo are doing this beacuse they know that the graphics capabilities of the Wii aren't as good as those of the PS3 and 360.
The PS3 is apparently, I've recently read, going to be on sale for $600 in the US, so it'll probably end up being about �395 over here. While that is a hefty price for a console, I'm sure I remember the original PS1 being about that price for the first month or two it was out.
At the end of the day, you should buy the one that has the games you want to play. Try and move past the graphics, and see how much enjoyment you're going to be getting from the machine.
Before the PS1, games consoles were about the games, and the enjoyment of them. When it came out, Sony knew that they had a battle against Sega with their Saturn, so had to beat them somehow. The Sony was a technically better system, so Sony pushed the graphics of their games, and how much technically better the console was.
Since that time, it's always been about the graphics, perhaps just as much or more-so than then games themselves. Parents not knowing which system to get for their children look at a pair of systems in a shop, and end up going for the one that looks the most impressive.
The PS3 and the 360 are both impressive systems, but they both heavily push their graphics capabilities, and are essentially just the PS2 and XBOX with greater capabilities.
The Wii actually tries to introduce new ideas of how to place games, with its innovative controller. Of course, Nintendo are doing this beacuse they know that the graphics capabilities of the Wii aren't as good as those of the PS3 and 360.
The PS3 is apparently, I've recently read, going to be on sale for $600 in the US, so it'll probably end up being about �395 over here. While that is a hefty price for a console, I'm sure I remember the original PS1 being about that price for the first month or two it was out.
At the end of the day, you should buy the one that has the games you want to play. Try and move past the graphics, and see how much enjoyment you're going to be getting from the machine.
I own a 360 and am impressed by it.The ps3 will be amazing but too expensive and too powerful for 99.9% of todays tv's,so any graphical advantage over the 360 will be lost.i dont like nintendo at all and am surprised at the 'innovative' word used above as nintendo is anything but.the controller is also not as innovative as people think as sony's controller offers the same and microsoft brought a sidewinder controller out a few years back for pc that offered similar capabilities to the wii's controller.
also,as an afternote sony have yet to release game prices and i expect these to be in the region of �60 due to being on the new blu-ray format.
Mattk: I would certainly regard them as being innovative. Sure, their new controller borrows several features from older things for the PC, but the Wii is the first one to truly try and make it a mass-market product. The controllers that had similar functionality previously never took off and were not crucial to many games.
Also, the Sony pad has a similar idea, but isn't half as good as the Wii's system. Plus a nintendo spokesman said a while ago that they wouldn't show the controller beacuse a rival would copy the features. About a week or two after they announced Wii's controller, Sony turned up with a new controller with similar featuers.
Also, the Sony pad has a similar idea, but isn't half as good as the Wii's system. Plus a nintendo spokesman said a while ago that they wouldn't show the controller beacuse a rival would copy the features. About a week or two after they announced Wii's controller, Sony turned up with a new controller with similar featuers.
fo3nix,we are gonna have to agree to disagree when it comes to nintendo.they were innovative back in the 80's but have showed a massive lack of imagaination ever since - how many mario games can the world stand for petes sake?
if you want to buy a console because you can play swordfights by waving a controller about thats fine.
I'll stick with the grown-ups games thanks !
The R.R.P. for PS3 (60GB version) in the UK will in fact be �425! This is mainly due to the Blu-ray player included with the console and there are no plans to release the 20GB version in the UK.
I agree entirely with fo3nix and am looking forward to Nintendo's Wii the most. Its controller is its distinguishing feature and while the motion sensing idea was stolen by PS3 (to a certain extent), the Wii's controller far superior technically. What interests me mosts is that with a controller such as the Wii's gameplay will be intuitive and therefore not restricted to its current market - the whole family will be playing. While the general idea behind the Wii controller might be inspired by older controllers (none that I know of!), none have been as technologically advanced as this one. See the following link for more:
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/nintendo- revolution.htm
MattK is half-right with his statement that PS3 will be too powerful for most people's TVs. More correctly, most TVs won't have the capabilities to display the games to the highest standard allowed by the PS3 - which is a 1080p HD picture. As I understand it, the Xbox360 also requires a HD ready TV for optimal display.
I agree entirely with fo3nix and am looking forward to Nintendo's Wii the most. Its controller is its distinguishing feature and while the motion sensing idea was stolen by PS3 (to a certain extent), the Wii's controller far superior technically. What interests me mosts is that with a controller such as the Wii's gameplay will be intuitive and therefore not restricted to its current market - the whole family will be playing. While the general idea behind the Wii controller might be inspired by older controllers (none that I know of!), none have been as technologically advanced as this one. See the following link for more:
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/nintendo- revolution.htm
MattK is half-right with his statement that PS3 will be too powerful for most people's TVs. More correctly, most TVs won't have the capabilities to display the games to the highest standard allowed by the PS3 - which is a 1080p HD picture. As I understand it, the Xbox360 also requires a HD ready TV for optimal display.
MattK - I just read your last comment and had to respond. Nintendo has made a lot of mario games over the years, but what you fail to mention is that all of them were different and very imaginitive and are among the greatest games ever made. I still love Super Mario World. They made many more great games besides Mario, like the Zelda games and the Metroid series
How exactly do you judge what a game to be a "grown-ups" game? I can only assume you're referring to the lack of violence in the First party titles and I've got to say you're entirely missing the point. A game doesn't have to be gory and gratuitously violent and feature a dark brooding hero to be good or adult for that matter. Open your mind!
How exactly do you judge what a game to be a "grown-ups" game? I can only assume you're referring to the lack of violence in the First party titles and I've got to say you're entirely missing the point. A game doesn't have to be gory and gratuitously violent and feature a dark brooding hero to be good or adult for that matter. Open your mind!
Nintendo were the first to use rumble packs (dual shock on the PS), on-controller addons (like the XBOX has), analog sticks, etc. But for what it's worth, I agree with mattk about the games side of things. They try and control the system's games far too much, and as a result a lot of the games are a bit 'samey' (imho).
They have made far too many Mario games, and general kids games. I think things are changing slowly though, with the Res evil games scheduled to be some of the first games on the Wii lineup, together with other more adult games. But they'll always be known as more of a kids machine, or perhaps just entertainment system. The PS3 is more trying to become something very central to your living room home cinema setup.
I'm definitely not a Nintendo fanboy though; I only own a SNES, and that was one I bought last year on Ebay because I had a megadrive when I was younger (yes, the Dark Side took me).
They have made far too many Mario games, and general kids games. I think things are changing slowly though, with the Res evil games scheduled to be some of the first games on the Wii lineup, together with other more adult games. But they'll always be known as more of a kids machine, or perhaps just entertainment system. The PS3 is more trying to become something very central to your living room home cinema setup.
I'm definitely not a Nintendo fanboy though; I only own a SNES, and that was one I bought last year on Ebay because I had a megadrive when I was younger (yes, the Dark Side took me).
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