Why did you choose the console(s) you chose?

In early 2005 when the ps3 was announced and I saw the "Ducks" demo it looked absolutely amazing and I wanted one really really badly. But i was kept waiting for about 2 years, and just as it was about to come out before my birthday it got delayed, and at that point the ps3 and sony looked absolutely unlikeable, and it became cool to hate it. even the ducks demo turned out to be pre rendered anyway.

Shortly before then I accidentally stumbled over the fact that nintendo's revolution would be called the wii, and after that i also accidentally stumbled upon gamesradar and found out that the new warioware was going to come out on the wii. "HOLY SH*T I WANT MORE INFORMATION!" and then for the first time I stumbled upon gamespot and found more information. so the wii looked very very dazzling, and I got one for christmas.

After warioware came out my friend got an xbox 360 and it had dead rising on it. AND IT WAS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! the wii was really boring after i finished warioware. no other games had any real depth, there were mostly minigame collections.

So I weighed my options. the ps3 had absolutely no substantial games out, metal gear solid 4 was over a year and a half away, and the ps3 was outrageously expensive when it came out. The xbox 360 had all the games I wanted; dead rising, among many others, you could download any old arcade games you wanted, you could download the dwemos any time you wanted, and not have to buy them with magazines, put on voicemasks, and bioshock was coming out exclusively (Kind of) for it. so it was absolutely no choice.

I found my 360 preowned, for less than half the price of a ps3, and to this day it has NEVER rrod'ed on me. (Except for one time, but it went away when I turned the 360 off and on again.

Now i want littlebigplanet really badly. so im gonna buy a ps3 next year.

LONG STORY SHORT: the ps3 made all these false promises, so i bought a wii just for warioware, the wii turned out to be crap so I bought a 360 just for bioshock and dead rising, and also because the ps3 was $800 at the time and had no good games. now i want to buy a ps3 just for littlebigplanet and MGS4.

The moral of this story is that littlebig planet and dead rising are the best games ever. :D

So why did you buy your console(s)?

360- games/live

ps3 - games/bluray

360-games

ps3-games

wii-games

for the record: the wii is my least favorite console, the pc is my most favorite.

I purchased my 360 because...

1) Bio-Ware only made games on the Xbox so I assumed it'd be the same this gen

2) I still had fond memories of Rare from the N64 days

3) There was a string of breakins in my neighborhood and when my house got hit I felt that it wouldn't happen again so now was the time to buy a bunch of stuff (I also purchased a HDTV like 4 weeks after this).

4) I'd never owned a Sony system so I felt like i'd have to play catch up on all the Sony franchises before I could fully enjoy their next gen sequels like MGS, Ratchet, Final Fantasy (yes I know it was on older Nintendo consoles but I feel like FF7 is what took it from rpg fanboys and put it on the map for the general gaming public)... plus the PS3 was crazy insane expensive back then.

Because Im loyal to some sagas.

ps3-games for me

wii-fun to play with friends

TC, lawl.

The Duck Demo wasn't PRERENDERED.

Stop listening to fanboy's, that's funny though.

Anyways, I got all three this gen and last.

360-games

ps3-games

wii-games

for the record: the wii is my least favorite console, the pc is my most favorite.

peeviness

Same reasons expect the PS3 has been my least favorite....The only exclusive on it I really cared about is MGS4. I will get LBP and Valkyria Chronicles just not until they have dropped in price.

But there is much more on the Wii I have liked and want of the upcoming libraries.

I chose the 360 at first because I prefer the controller. I thn got a wiifor a few weeks to play all the regular nintendo games, after Ifinished with that I sold it to a co worker and kept playing the 360.

When my 360 red ringed after 3 years, i sent it to MS and bought a PS3 to keep me buisy. I bought it mainly for the bluray, but I'm pleased to say that I've found a few great games on that system, namely, Uncharted.

PS2 - Because of its games library

Wii - Nintendo's First Party (:

360- games/live

ps3 - games/bluray

-Mad_Rhetoric-

'Bout that.

PS3 - God of War and MGS4

X360- Ninja Gaiden and Gears

Wii - Nitty's first party.

When I look back on it I spent my money look a fool. But I enjoyed the stuff on got for my consoles. I only really have around 6 games for each :S

I bought a PS3 for the following reasons:

- The exclusives for the system appealed to me the most vs. other consoles.

- Built-in Blu-ray

- PSN was free

- The large HD

I was going to get a 360 for DEAD RISING when the game came out but i didn't have enough money so I saved for a few months and got it when Gears of War came out

I'd mainly gotten the system for those 2 games and than there was the inevitability of Halo 3, I'd a feeling Ninja Gaiden II would eventually arise and than Resident Evil 5 was announced too and there ya goand than there's all the other randoms I'd been amazed by @ E3 2005 (mass effect, i think bioshocjk was there, and too human but that didn't come out to my liking)

the wii was really boring after i finished warioware. no other games had any real depth, there were mostly minigame collections.

UnlimitedToast7

Warioware:

a)has no depth

b)is a minigame collection

I wanted to play the MS exclusives, and the multiplats.

Never regretted buyin a 360... I've owned 3 PS2s, and 5 PSPs.
1 360. Hasn't RROD'd.

PS3 - Oblivion, Metal Gear Solid 4, Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII, God of War III, Team ICO's new title, and Heavy Rain were all reasons I got a PS3. I've had a great experience with the console thus far.

360 - Halo 3, Fable 2, Lost Odyssey, Mass Effect, and possible ports of "The Witcher" and "Project Offset" which aren't happening now were reasons. The experience with my 360 has been great save the RRoD. :(

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the wii was really boring after i finished warioware. no other games had any real depth, there were mostly minigame collections.

Holyknight_CJ

Warioware:

a)has no depth

b)is a minigame collection

Well warioware is the bloody best game ever created that has no depth and is a minigame collection!

WII- Games

PS3- Games

360- Games

Coming into this gen I was a nintedo fan but I got tired of waiting for the wii so I bought a 360. Around a month after i got my 360 Gears of war came out, I played it and that's when i knew i had made the right choice.

I eventually did get my wii only to find that there were not many games i was truly looking forward to (Paper mario and fire emblem). I soon after sold my wii for my then i paid:)

I owned a PS1 and then a PS2 and never really cared about xbox at first. Then I went to my friend's house to play Halo and loved it. I bought a 360 and Halo 3 by saving up a months worth of pay from working. I got it mostly because of titles like Gears of War, Halo, Mass Effect, and playing Live with my buddies. It's unfortunate that games have taken a sort of backburner though because I've been concentrating on school and working.

As for PS3, I'm holding off on buying it until God of War 3 comes out and see if Killzone 2 is worth the hype. I never cared for blu-ray movies or Metal Gear Solid, and the price is too steep for my pockets. Just have to wait and see.

360 - Games

PS3 - Games

Wii - Games.

Blu ray hype, MGS4 hype, fear of malfunction from the competitor.

I'm starting to think I wasted $400; maybe Killzone 2, RFOM2, GOW3, the continuation of RROD, and my friend(who loves selling and re-purchasing consoles:roll: ) letting me borrow or buy his GeOW2 playing machine for cheap will change that. I hope.

Oh yea, there are also the multiplats just hope that my consoles version doesn't keep getting the non-superior version.