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Look at the first year of PS2 games. What was there that was good?
Tekken Tag (fighting game, 9.6), SSX (sports game, 9.4), Fifa 2001 (sports game, 9.1), Madden 2001 (sports game, 9.1), Guitar Freaks 3rd mix (no clue, 9.0).
Besides those games, games ranged anywhere from 3.5 - 8.6. The games were bad. What did it have? It could play DVD movies. Sounds like deja vu to me.
So now here's the PS3 and it's a year and 1 month into it's life. It has over 7 games rated at above 9.0 and they are all different kinds of games. It has a blu-ray player and looks good. Sounds like history repeating itself.
We have known since it came out that the good stuff would arrive a year and a half into it's life. The same thing happened with the 2 previous consoles. The system undoubtably has the best 08 lineup and had a price-drop. Blu-ray is also growing and they have a powerful ad campaign going. Actually, the beautiful new PS3 commercial was seen by me about a month ago and drew me into looking into getting a console.
So let's see, we have a free online interface (which a lot of us would agree looks better than XBL) and it will have a free 3D chat program called Home released soon. There are also very popular and fun games coming out in the next half of a year. Another big thing is the system's reliability. I have only 1 friend who owns an X360 and he's on his 3rd one and tired of it. It has costed him dear amounts of money and I can't believe how lame of a situation that is. The PS3 has been shown to be the most reliable console of this generation with almost non-existent failure rates.
In the long-haul MS will just dump you guys again. When they are done soaking in your money Xbox540 will come out. You'll love it and you'll pay for it. You'll defend it and make enemies on the internet over it. You'll get addicted and you'll lose friends over it. But who cares, it has Halo 4. The PS3 will have a longer lifespan, without a doubt, and Sony wont just dump us and make a new console. PS2 is still selling like a monster and people are loving it. Xbox wasn't the same, why would they do it this generation?
So what's the point of what I'm saying you ask? Well, those of us who do like the Playstation have good reason to. I'd go as far as to say that I really like Nintendo but I hate Microsoft. I thought Sega had a much better crowd than the Xbox. I didn't see such ignorant posts and spam from them on forums back in the day. It might be a social thing or it might just be the way XBL affects the people who touch it. It doesn't surprise me, considering when I played it at wall-mart I heard the N-word over a dozen times. Sounds like a bad community to me.
Take it with a grain of salt but whether the PS3 gets first second or third in 4 years is unpredictable but I would like to be one of the first to say that I don't think this war will end the way you want or expect it to. Eyes and ears open for the next 24 months, and if you suddenly feel the urge to join me, send me a message and I'll show you where to buy a PS3.
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