My Observations

I have played video games all of my life since I was little starting from NES to now PS3. This is not a troll topic so don't get me wrong, I am not a Sony Fanboy trying to say PS3 is the best and shove it in people's faces, but from my accounts, PS3 is the better system in regards to the Wii and X-Box 360. Kinda sounds like I am contradicting myself, but let me explain in further detail.

I have owned all three of them, but I have sold my 360 and Wii. My Wii I sold first because I only hand a handful of Mario titles and Super Smash Bros. and it barely felt like a gaming system at all. For me, the Wii is a system that you would see at a Frat House party where people are drunk playing Wii Sports or Super Smash Bros. and it is really designed for the lesiure gamer and not the hardcore gamer. These games got old and I moved on to bigger and better things and that is why I eventually sold it.

My 360 lasted a lot longer, but I also got tired of the games. Halo series, a sci fi First Person shooter, Gears of War Series, a sci fi Third Person Shooter, Mass Effect, awesome, but a sci fi thrid person RPG shooter. After that what comes next? Another shooter? 360 doesn't really have any other games "I" can think of that are not on other consoles as well.

When it came to my PS3, I felt there was a lot more selection and variety. If I wanted to play an epic action game I would pick up an Uncharted, God of War III or Heavenly Sword. If I wanted shooters I could choose from the Resistance Series or the Killzone series. If I wanted a good action RPG I'd Play Demon Souls. There just seems to be a lot more variety and there is a long lasting value because of the fact that PS3 has a blu-ray player.

This are my observations, but what do you guys think?

While I share your general view on the 360 library, and respect your opinion, it may not go over well here on SW.

*hands TC a shield*

You'll need it buddy.

These games got old and I moved on to bigger and better things and that is why I eventually sold it.Mighty-Lu-Bu

I haven't given up on other systems entirely, but explain some of the games then. I had a conversation with my brother today about the Wii, he use to be a really big Nintendo fan and he was just like, what happened to Nintendo? You always hear about the next Gears of War or the next God of War, but for me you never really hear anything impressive coming from Nintendo.

I haven't given up on other systems entirely, but explain some of the games then. I had a conversation with my brother today about the Wii, he use to be a really big Nintendo fan and he was just like, what happened to Nintendo? You always hear about the next Gears of War or the next God of War, but for me you never really hear anything impressive coming from Nintendo.

Mighty-Lu-Bu

I did do research, how many Mario games can one play? And don't even mention a Zelda I am not 6 anymore. I liked Monster Hunter, but it got old. No More Hereos was fun, but nothing special. It just seems the console was designed for kids and I am not a kid anymore.

I'm not interestered in your personal opinion. You have a blog for that. On top of that, there are way more titles on the 360 and Wii then your initial experience would suggest.

I did do research, how many Mario games can one play? And don't even mention a Zelda I am not 6 anymore. I liked Monster Hunter, but it got old. No More Hereos was fun, but nothing special. It just seems the console was designed for kids and I am not a kid anymore.

Mighty-Lu-Bu

I did do research, how many Mario games can one play? And don't even mention a Zelda I am not 6 anymore. I liked Monster Hunter, but it got old. No More Hereos was fun, but nothing special. It just seems the console was designed for kids and I am not a kid anymore.

Mighty-Lu-Bu

Its snarky little comments like that that make people not take posts like this serious. Can you not pose your position without having this superiority complex?

I did do research, how many Mario games can one play? And don't even mention a Zelda I am not 6 anymore. I liked Monster Hunter, but it got old. No More Hereos was fun, but nothing special. It just seems the console was designed for kids and I am not a kid anymore.

Mighty-Lu-Bu

I take back that shield. Keep your opinions on your blog where they belong.

I understand your love for the PS3, and to an extent I agree, but in general its a matter of opinion and taste.

I think it's your opinion and you are entitled to it. I can agree with it for the most part, but I'll put any Halo game up against any of those PS3 shooters. I'm not the worlds biggest Halo fan, in fact I'm not really a fan at all, but out of all those shooters I enjoyed my time with Halo the most.I think the PS3 rules the 3rd person action game genre, but I can't stand Kratos and I thought Heavenly Sword, like most early PS3 titles lacked polish and charm. Demon Souls is awesome and should be lauded but 360 owners get Dark Souls so..eh.

Also, I think it's a shame that people discount XBLA so much. There are some awesome games on there not on the PS3.

I find the DS to be an enjoyable system with much variety and very worthwhile to play, and the games aren't as boring as most PS3 games I've seen and played. Guess we all like different stuff.

PS3 is the biggest piece of garbage I have ever purchased. Uncharted 2.....that's it. the rest are stupid updates from superior PS2 titles (ah Sony, now THATS a console) .360 does multiplats better but what is the point when its all the same FPS/TPS status quo games? Sonicplys

Wii seems like it was designed for kids... I'm sorry, but thats prettty much what it is when every title is rated E for Everyone. I use to love Nintendo, but gaming has changed and so have I. People grow out of Mario games and Zelda games. I don't care about those games anymore because I'm not a kid and I play big boy games. Sounds a little harsh, but that is just the reality of gaming, you grow out of titles and you find new ones. My friends are a mix between 360 and PS3 though, most admit that PS3 has better games. I "was" a 360 user and I got rid of my 360 due to lack of games.

Anyone who really says PS3 is garbage doesn't really know what they are talking about, there are a lot of really great exclusives. X-Box exclusives are growing slimmer and slimmer with more titles being ported over to PS3, just look at the BioShock Series, the Mass Effect Series, the Ninja Gaiden Series etc. Its a fact that 360 is losing major exclusives. PS3 lost some, like Tekken and Resident Evil, but with the last Tekken release 360 can have it haha.

I'm trying to be open, but people just say oh 360 and Wii have great games and I don't see it.

Wii seems like it was designed for kids... I'm sorry, but thats prettty much what it is when every title is rated E for Everyone. I use to love Nintendo, but gaming has changed and so have I. People grow out of Mario games and Zelda games. I don't care about those games anymore because I'm not a kid and I play big boy games. Sounds a little harsh, but that is just the reality of gaming, you grow out of titles and you find new ones. My friends are a mix between 360 and PS3 though, most admit that PS3 has better games. I "was" a 360 user and I got rid of my 360 due to lack of games.

Anyone who really says PS3 is garbage doesn't really know what they are talking about, there are a lot of really great exclusives. X-Box exclusives are growing slimmer and slimmer with more titles being ported over to PS3, just look at the BioShock Series, the Mass Effect Series, the Ninja Gaiden Series etc. Its a fact that 360 is losing major exclusives. PS3 lost some, like Tekken and Resident Evil, but with the last Tekken release 360 can have it haha.

I'm trying to be open, but people just say oh 360 and Wii have great games and I don't see it.

Mighty-Lu-Bu

"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -C. S. Lewis

You need to mature a bit mate. I'm 23 and still recognize that Zelda and Mario have high quality design and gameplay.

[QUOTE="Mighty-Lu-Bu"]

Wii seems like it was designed for kids... I'm sorry, but thats prettty much what it is when every title is rated E for Everyone. I use to love Nintendo, but gaming has changed and so have I. People grow out of Mario games and Zelda games. I don't care about those games anymore because I'm not a kid and I play big boy games. Sounds a little harsh, but that is just the reality of gaming, you grow out of titles and you find new ones. My friends are a mix between 360 and PS3 though, most admit that PS3 has better games. I "was" a 360 user and I got rid of my 360 due to lack of games.

Anyone who really says PS3 is garbage doesn't really know what they are talking about, there are a lot of really great exclusives. X-Box exclusives are growing slimmer and slimmer with more titles being ported over to PS3, just look at the BioShock Series, the Mass Effect Series, the Ninja Gaiden Series etc. Its a fact that 360 is losing major exclusives. PS3 lost some, like Tekken and Resident Evil, but with the last Tekken release 360 can have it haha.

I'm trying to be open, but people just say oh 360 and Wii have great games and I don't see it.

Pikminmaniac

"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -C. S. Lewis

You need to mature a bit mate. I'm 23 and still recognize that Zelda and Mario have high quality design and gameplay.

I'm 24 and most people my age don't play those games. In fact most people I know don't have a Wii and if they did they got tired of it and sold it. When I said I wanted to get a Wii my friends told me not to and that I would get tired of it which I eventually did. Like I said earlier, Mario was fun when I was 6, Poke'mon was fun when I was 10, but now games like Assasian's Creed, Call of Duty, Uncharted, Resident Evil games and God of War games are much more appealing. You play with toy cars when your a kid, but you don't do that when your an adult because thats what kids do. The Wii appeals to kids and anyone can argue all they want, but it is a family friendly console for lesiure play with no hardcore gaming in mind. I forgot where I read the article (I think it was on Gamespot or IGN), but it was the owner of Sony talking about the owner or CEO of Nintendo. I think this was at E3 Events, but anyways he said year after year they also checked out Nintendo and were impressed, but over the years they thought the direction Nintendo was going in was stupid and non appealing and they kept getting less and less interested with what Nintendo showcased eventually not caring at all. I'll try to find the article becauses its very interesting, but anyways all I am saying is that Wii is a kids family friendly system and it doesn't look like that is changing anytime soon.

[QUOTE="Pikminmaniac"]

[QUOTE="Mighty-Lu-Bu"]

Wii seems like it was designed for kids... I'm sorry, but thats prettty much what it is when every title is rated E for Everyone. I use to love Nintendo, but gaming has changed and so have I. People grow out of Mario games and Zelda games. I don't care about those games anymore because I'm not a kid and I play big boy games. Sounds a little harsh, but that is just the reality of gaming, you grow out of titles and you find new ones. My friends are a mix between 360 and PS3 though, most admit that PS3 has better games. I "was" a 360 user and I got rid of my 360 due to lack of games.

Anyone who really says PS3 is garbage doesn't really know what they are talking about, there are a lot of really great exclusives. X-Box exclusives are growing slimmer and slimmer with more titles being ported over to PS3, just look at the BioShock Series, the Mass Effect Series, the Ninja Gaiden Series etc. Its a fact that 360 is losing major exclusives. PS3 lost some, like Tekken and Resident Evil, but with the last Tekken release 360 can have it haha.

I'm trying to be open, but people just say oh 360 and Wii have great games and I don't see it.

Mighty-Lu-Bu

"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -C. S. Lewis

You need to mature a bit mate. I'm 23 and still recognize that Zelda and Mario have high quality design and gameplay.

I'm 24 and most people my age don't play those games. In fact most people I know don't have a Wii and if they did they got tired of it and sold it. When I said I wanted to get a Wii my friends told me not to and that I would get tired of it which I eventually did. Like I said earlier, Mario was fun when I was 6, Poke'mon was fun when I was 10, but now games like Assasian's Creed, Call of Duty, Uncharted, Resident Evil games and God of War games are much more appealing. You play with toy cars when your a kid, but you don't do that when your an adult because thats what kids do. The Wii appeals to kids and anyone can argue all they want, but it is a family friendly console for lesiure play with no hardcore gaming in mind. I forgot where I read the article (I think it was on Gamespot or IGN), but it was the owner of Sony talking about the owner or CEO of Nintendo. I think this was at E3 Events, but anyways he said year after year they also checked out Nintendo and were impressed, but over the years they thought the direction Nintendo was going in was stupid and non appealing and they kept getting less and less interested with what Nintendo showcased eventually not caring at all. I'll try to find the article becauses its very interesting, but anyways all I am saying is that Wii is a kids family friendly system and it doesn't look like that is changing anytime soon.

Your age does not dictate anything about what is appropriate to like and not like. You actually missed the point of such a straight forward quote. Something an "adult" shouldn't have.

[QUOTE="Pikminmaniac"]

[QUOTE="Mighty-Lu-Bu"]

Wii seems like it was designed for kids... I'm sorry, but thats prettty much what it is when every title is rated E for Everyone. I use to love Nintendo, but gaming has changed and so have I. People grow out of Mario games and Zelda games. I don't care about those games anymore because I'm not a kid and I play big boy games. Sounds a little harsh, but that is just the reality of gaming, you grow out of titles and you find new ones. My friends are a mix between 360 and PS3 though, most admit that PS3 has better games. I "was" a 360 user and I got rid of my 360 due to lack of games.

Anyone who really says PS3 is garbage doesn't really know what they are talking about, there are a lot of really great exclusives. X-Box exclusives are growing slimmer and slimmer with more titles being ported over to PS3, just look at the BioShock Series, the Mass Effect Series, the Ninja Gaiden Series etc. Its a fact that 360 is losing major exclusives. PS3 lost some, like Tekken and Resident Evil, but with the last Tekken release 360 can have it haha.

I'm trying to be open, but people just say oh 360 and Wii have great games and I don't see it.

Mighty-Lu-Bu

"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -C. S. Lewis

You need to mature a bit mate. I'm 23 and still recognize that Zelda and Mario have high quality design and gameplay.

I'm 24 and most people my age don't play those games. In fact most people I know don't have a Wii and if they did they got tired of it and sold it. When I said I wanted to get a Wii my friends told me not to and that I would get tired of it which I eventually did. Like I said earlier, Mario was fun when I was 6, Poke'mon was fun when I was 10, but now games like Assasian's Creed, Call of Duty, Uncharted, Resident Evil games and God of War games are much more appealing. You play with toy cars when your a kid, but you don't do that when your an adult because thats what kids do. The Wii appeals to kids and anyone can argue all they want, but it is a family friendly console for lesiure play with no hardcore gaming in mind. I forgot where I read the article (I think it was on Gamespot or IGN), but it was the owner of Sony talking about the owner or CEO of Nintendo. I think this was at E3 Events, but anyways he said year after year they also checked out Nintendo and were impressed, but over the years they thought the direction Nintendo was going in was stupid and non appealing and they kept getting less and less interested with what Nintendo showcased eventually not caring at all. I'll try to find the article becauses its very interesting, but anyways all I am saying is that Wii is a kids family friendly system and it doesn't look like that is changing anytime soon.

A boy becomes a man when he can appreciate all forms of media for what they're worth.

These "childish" games you speak of were made with tender love and care.

Miyamoto (Mario), Masuda (Pokemon), Aonuma (Zelda), and countless others pour all of their sweat and blood into a product highly praised and loved by gamers of all ages.

Even if YOU don't find them fun, you can at least respect the developers and the fanbase.

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I agree, there are some games made for children that capitalize on their naivete.

But Nintendo's products...they are truly games made for EVERYONE.

And in my opinion, I believe games intended for all ages are vastly superior to those with gratuitous amounts of swearing, sex, and violence.