PS 3 or Xbox 360 or Wii or PC, which was your favourite system and why during 7th generation?

PS 3 SLIM 160 GB +1

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Classics HD (all the popular PS 2 and PSP games)

MGS 4

Uncharted Trilogy

Resistance Trilogy

Killzone Trilogy

God of War entire series

Demons Souls

various multiplats ETC

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Well?

360S by far with Halos, Forzas, Gears, Fables, Lost Odyssey, ME1 and Rares.

360 was my system of that generation with Halo, Gears, and Call of Duty mainly. I spent a lot of time on those games with my friends from school back then.

Funny enough it changed twice.

Started off with the Xbox 360 I bought in 2007. Enjoyed the hell out of Halo 3, Fable 2, Gears of War 2, Mass Effect, Reach and a few other games.

Around October 2010 got a PS3. Xbox 360 was slowing down with exclusives and enjoyed many great PS3 ones. Infamous 2, Uncharted 2, God of War 3, R&C Toos of Destruction, Demons' Souls and a few others.

Late 2012 finally decided to upgrade my PC from 2009(that was average for 2009 standards except with a beefy CPU). Ended up building a new one. Discovered 60fps, full-HD and beyond, max settings etc. Been my favorite since.

So yeah from 360 being my favorite to PS3 to PC.

It's PC always for me, whatever time period you chose since the dawn of IBM PC and MS DOS. Obviously if you go earlier there is no PC and things become interesting, but I wasn't alive then so it's a mute point.

From the consoles my favorite of the period is PS3. It has some great well known games as well as many hidden gems. Not as many as PS2 but still, great console. The one that could rival it in term of games is the Nintendo DS, probably the best handheld ever made when it comes to games.

PC. Loved playing Crysis, STALKER, The Witcher 1/2, World in Conflict, Company of Heroes, Dawn of War 2, Starcraft 2, Medieval 2, Shogun 2, Shadow Warrior, Diablo 3, Half Life 2's episodes, The Book of Unwritten Tales and several multiplats on PC.

360, because I didn't have a capable PC for most of last-gen... I didn't bother upgrading.

PC, I do own all wii/xbox360/ps3 but mostly gamed on pc

PS3 by far with Uncharted 2, The last of us, Puppeteer, god of war 3, R&C into the Nexus and MGS4

I'm inclined of course to say PC, but Red Dead Redemption was hands down my favorite game of last gen and would probably make my Top 10 all-time list. I grew up a huge fan of the Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns and RDR was an AMAZING adaptation that is unlike any game before or since.

So I'd go PS3

Red Dead Redemption, The Last of Us, Uncharted 2, God of War III, Little Big Planet, Valkyria Chronicles, Demon's Souls, etc.

Not to mention the built in, top of the line blu-ray player at a time when those things were still like $800 fucking dollars a pop.

I didn't get into PC gaming until 2007, so I'll go with both PS3/Xbox 360. PS3 with PS+ really help me out with the freebie games since I was still in Collage when I couldn't offered just about every game release at the time, PS3 with PS+ help me out. Xbox 360 had great games I enjoy and it was a huge improvements over the Xbox as well so both PS3/Xbox 360 get my votes.

PC gaming is another story but that too get's my vote as I was PC, Xbox 360, PS3 gamer.

Agreed w/ prior statement the RDR was simply phenomenal. Definitely grabbed the "feel" of that era very well. Definitely looking forward to more from that series, if it ever happens.

OT: PS3. Games.

360: it simply had the games/genres carried over from OG Xbox that I preferred. Better controllers, online, Multi platform games. An excellent well rounded console. Never had the RRODs with my Elite 120gb, still works to this day.

Followed by PS3 Slim 120GB: my go to Bluray Netflix player and exclusives platform, minus the trash JRPGs.

PS3

Free online
Blu Ray Player
The Last Of Us

PC gamer since 1981.

Xbox 360 no doubt, great exclusives, best place to play all the multiplats, and with the golden age of online gaming you just had to have party chat. Was also the better system for those indie downloadable games. MS was a leader in giving us our modern gaming standards. Wireless controllers, streamlined online integration, downloadable games, DLC, apps, and helped bridge the gap between PC and console development by delivering a powerful console. And that controller, far superior to the DS3 and even the DS4.

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1) PC hands down for many reasons to even mention.

2) PS3 saved the day to be my second choice after its ridiculously bad 2-3 first years with epic games like UC2 / TLOU / GOW3 etc. Before that .. i was laughing hard with SONY for 2 years straight because their cockiness prior of PS3 release was out of this world and never met any of their official statements. And they made so many ...ridiculous ones.

3) X360 managed to be appealing for too long. Competitive in price/performance ration , lead console for 3rd parties , exciting new IPs like gears etc

Considering i never was in HALO/FORZA series at all and for X360 to be appealing at the same time , seems MS did something right and Sony totally wrong , at least at the first 2-3 years. Games like Gears back then had a huge impact while bad PS3s sales ended up for it to lose massive exclusives to X360 platform ( Tekken , FF etc ) Too bad it pulled the plug way earlier than PS3 exclusive wise.

4) Wii .... Biggest reason is i found RIDICULUSLY frustrating to play with Wii mote specially games that need extra precision at times. Then the fact that Nintendo pulled the plug so early despite its successs , oh boy what a FUPED move. Shovelware ... most in console history , more than any other system before it , even more than PS2 ! HArdware ? ... Lets not talk about it !

Thats it about last gen for me.

I spent the most time on PS3 playing stuff like Motorstorm: PR, Vanquish, Soul Calibur, Blazeblue, Kingdom's of Amalur, but find I have the greatest fondness for the Wii. Even if I looked like a fool, I really enjoyed gesturing like an idiot playing Prince of Persia, Force Unleashed, and Madworld. Then there were the games where it worked flat out great like RE4, Pandora's Tower, Skyward Sword, and Excite Truck. Top it off with all the SNK games finally available for a reasonable price on Virtual Console, and I just have a lot of love for the machine.

The Xbox 360.

It had by far the best online service which this alone led to it being by far my most played system last gen since it gave me an easy way to play games and chat with my friends as if they were in the same room with me. The PS3 and Wii had terrible online services.

It had by far the best controller, so I always preferred playing games on my Xbox 360 over any other system when I had the choice. The PS3 and Wiimote were terrible controllers.

And I absolutely loved Xbox Live Arcade. Every week I would look forward to trying out the new free demos of Xbox Live Arcade games to see if I discover any gems. PSN and Wiiware were very lacking compared to Xbox Live Arcade and did not include mandatory free demos for every game like Xbox Live Arcade did.

360 by the far, my ps3 was just a Blu-ray player for most the generation.

Had a ps3 on launch, enjoyed a fee games then switched to 360 and played it's great games and at the time games you didn't get on the ps3 at all or later in the generation.

Games like mass effect, bioshock, dead rising, gears of war, halo, lost odyssey, forza, fable were either 360 exclusive all the generation or came to ps3 so late I'd played them.and moved on.

Also the 360 did a lot of media stuff better, it was near seem less streaming from my PC and Netflix loaded quicker

The online was just better and worth paying for, full speed downloads for games and party chat etc.

The 360 was a great console

Xbox 360, even though the generation was when I made the major transition from Console to PC I still remember the day I got the 360 and Saints Row 1, god damn that was a beautiful Winter Break. Didn't even indulge in the exclusives, just appreciated having any kind of gaming system.

Wii

Wii Remote and Nunchuk

Games like:

Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition

Metroid Prime Trilogy

Super Mario Galaxy

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Super Paper Mario

No More Heroes

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

TrackMania: Build to Race

Sin and Punishment: Star Successor

MadWorld

Muramasa: The Demon Blade

Tenchu: Shadow Assassins

Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers

Red Steel 2

Samurai Warriors 3

Ghost Squad

Resident Evil The Umbrella Chronicles

Resident Evil The Darkside Chronicles

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

Sonic Colors

Sonic and the Secret Rings

Excite Truck

Excitebots: Trick Racing

Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop

Goldeneye 007

Punch Out!!

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

Medal of Honor Heroes 2

Playing the CoD's with the Wii Remote was a beautiful thing too.

I've got over 100 games for my Wii, my favourite system. ❤

The Wii was my favorite system last gen. So much fun gaming with family and friends.

Even though I like all those consoles, I think I'll have to go with PS3. I like the exclusives there a lot

PS3. I really enjoyed its exclusives last gen.

1) PC: its where i get my multiplats, cracking exclusives also and on the best platform to play games on. PC wins every gen.

2) DS: not many games used its dual screen functionality well but it still had a ton of great games. the DSLite is also one of the greatest handhelds ever made. nintendo can do sleek when they want to. please do it again.

3) the wii. yes tons of shovelware but also many diamonds in the rough. i also like the wiimote and nunchuck and thought it was a great start to a more fully developed motion controller. i was dissapointed when they didnt run with it for the wiiu.

the 360, PS3 and PSP were also rans to be honest. 360 had its moments with gears co-op. im not actually sure why i got the PS3 (it is seeing some light use now mind) i didnt get on well with the PSP much either...except for dungeon siege.

Xbox 360, atleast from 2006 til 2011 when I bought my first gaming PC. Loved my 360 because of Halo and Gears of War. Then when I got a PC I couldn't go back to consoles, mostly thanks to the graphics and performance.

My story is kind of similar, with the X360 being my primary platform for the 7th Gen. It made entry into that generation far more affordable, as the PS3 price drop took too long. And it provided for all my gaming needs; not only for Halo, Gears, Forza, but all the multiplat titles that were a staple of Gen7 - Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, Bioshock, Tomb Raider, Portal, Dragon Age, Skyrim, Witcher 2, Deus Ex HR... among others.

Plus there were the amazing offerings on the XBLA, Shadow Complex, Braid, Limbo, and all those retro games that let me recapture my childhood such as R-Type, Golden Axe, Sonic, classic Street Fighter II, the original arcade Mortal Kombat games and those that were remastered like Strider.

Where my path diverges is that it's not until the 8th gen that I shifted to the PS4, just not liking the direction Microsoft was going with the Xbox brand in it's launch window. There was even that reversal of fortune where the PS4 cost less than the XB1.

And then shortly later I got my first custom built PC where I finally got to experience true HD gaming (not upscaled) with high settings, high frame rate (that makes even more difference than res) and even more rewarding; the unbelievable deals on games. Seriously, I cannot pay $60 for a game any more, and here in Canada the new release sticker price is typically $80. That's just robbery.

Oh yeah I forgot price which is probably one of the main reason. I remember when I first got my PC, I thought 1 year old games at 30$ was a steal. Then I found out about Steam Sales and other websites where I could find games for less than 10$(hell less than 5$ sometimes) and I never looked back.

I live in Canada too. Halo 4 and MW3 costed me 120$ when I bought them brand new for my 360 in late 2012. Never again. Our prices are even worse now.

My favourite console would've easily been 360, but I got burnt so many times by bloody RRoD that I ended up buying a PS3 and mainly using that last gen.

So I guess I'd say PS3, going by number of hours I spent on it.

From 2005 to 2009 it was the 360. From 2009 to 2011 it was the ps3. From 2011 to the launch of the ps4, i forgot i had consoles and was mainly on pc.

PC has always delivered the most of what I want out of gaming. Every gen it's my "home base". Out of the consoles, I guess I'd go PS3, but all 3 of them were pretty fun machines and I still play my Wii once in a while

For most of the 7th gen, it was between PC and XBOX 360. By the end, it was PC > XBOX 360 > Wii U >> PS3

The 360 was my first major console - I had maybe a handful of games for the original XBOX, and only 1 game for the Nintendo Game Boy (Ninja Turtles of course). In addition, my PC at the time was one of the earliest dual-core AMD systems...which wasn't exactly impressive for anything except stability and multi-tasking. (programs didn't seem able to lock up both cores) so the 360 was more powerful, and willing to run games at 30 fps (believe it or not, I played games like Mass Effect and PGR4 without knowing the game wasn't ever above 30 fps...I assumed it was 60)

On the 360, I had lots of fun games fairly early on. Forza 3/4, Soul Calibur 4/5, Ace Combat, Fable II, Mass Effect, and even GTA4 for a while. On PC, I had Guild Wars, WoW (I didn't start playing until well after Guild Wars), Medieval 2: Total War, Spellforce 2, Sins of a Solar Empire, and eventually the Sims 2 (once I focused more on house and neighbourhood building, making the game absurdly massive).

Later on, I was envious of all the PS3 exclusives, and bought one of those and tons of games. But to be honest, except for Ratchet and Clank, God of War, and MAAAAYBE Little Big Planet, there was a huge disconnect between what metacritic said and what my own experience was. On balance, to be perfectly honest I greatly prefer XBOX exclusives.

If you include the Wii U in the 7th-gen (publishers certainly did!) then I'd put it between the XBOX 360 and the PS3. It's got some great games, but it has less than the 360 if you count exclusives and PS3/XBOX360 only games (i.e. Fight Night Champion, Dragon's Dogma, Diablo 3, most fighting games)

PS3 since it is the only 7th gen console I bought which is my least favorite in the Playstation family.

PS3 was my favorite because of the controller and the exclusives like:

Uncharted series

Infamous series

God of war 3 and Ascension

Journey

Killzone series

Littlebigplanet series

Mgs 4 and so on.

My second is PC and I played a lot on PC mostly multiplats but i spent ALOT of time on command and conquer and microvolts