The past 2 weeks I've been trying to make a decision, hop by friends even more to get a 1st hand experience with their consoles so I could get a good feeling of what every console can do + internet info etc. And that's where the problem starts. The last gen was different, consoles competed against each other with their strengths. Exclusives, Genre-focused, features such as strongly developed Online service, etc etc.
Well currently it's the other way around, I'm now trying to pick one that svcks the least.
The X360 has some huge brick attached to it, sounds like a jet taking off and since I kinda play alot I'm kinda pretty sure I'll get a RROD. Battery-swallowing controllers, exclusives eventually or even simultanously released just as good if not better on the PC, I got a rig here that can run Crysis at 30fps +- with that Custom-patch, so why the **** would I want to play a shooter/singleplayer experience on my console when it's the same if not better on my PC? I can even direct it to the LCD and play it with the X360 controller...
In the meantime Mr Miyagi can't get any decent graphics on his Wii, graphics don't mean anything yes, but they sure do give an indication of the horsepower a console has, and just simple 'because of that multiplats I'm usually interested in go for the X360/PS3 combo. Online functions work with friends code, awesome, like we're trading Pokemon cards again.
And then we have the PS3, what's that controller supposed to be, jointstriker 3.0? The idea is that I can play comfortable on it, not have a red thumb after playing with the direction-buttons for about 15min. And shouldn't this be a gaming system or something? All i see worth mentioning is MGS4 and multiplats that are available on the X360 aswell. Home, what a joke, as if I'm waiting for some Second Life scenario ''Gonna blow XBL out of the water, GARANTEED'', yah right. Ontop of that SCEE thinks we're not worth getting the 80gb version or the dualshock 3. Awesome, glad to know we're ''not worth it''.
So I can either pick a system and get the same or even worse experience compared to my PC. One that gives me graphics (eventho it's the developer's fault) from the Medieval times and lack of multiplats or any serious online service, or a system that has the GOTY but basicly nothing else other then that and who's firm thinks we're not worth getting stuff everyone else gets.
Tough choice.
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