Your Personal Opinions On The Big Three

First of all I would make it clear that these are my personal opinions, I not urging you orpersuadingyou to agree with me, but if I am making a false statement then please correct me. If you agree with me and want to elaborate, then please do so

Nintendo Wii

To me, nintendo is the lucky bastard, both Microsoft and Sony werecaught off guard, when nintendo came out. Even though being outdated( compare to 360 and Ps3) nintendo pulled it off because of their motion sensing technology. Now that both Microsoft and Ps3 have come up with their own motion sensing tech, there is no need for me to buy WII. Frankly, I believe this is probably the last successful console coming from Nintendo, because I don't believe Nintendo will be able to come up with better tech than MS and Sony, this time they will be prepared. Nintendo is better off being a third party, with their arcade like games(mario), targeting their loyal fanbase( which I amdefinitely not part of). Games like Legend of Zelda would look better on 360 and PS3. Wii Lagacy will be of the console that attracted a new market called casual gamers.

Xbox 360

Except for the technical issues, 360 is a great engine. Even though I sold my 360, so I could buy a Ps3, it was not because I didn't like 360, its was that most of my close friends had a PS3, some of them had both consoles, but I can't afford both. Project Natal looks very promising, but its catered towards the casual gamers not me, plus I don't know how they will be able to make a first person shooter with this tech. I see stuff like Milo, or tennis like casual games coming out from Natal, not my cup of tea. Some really good exclusive games came out from 360, but none of them really made me excited, in other words, made be go back to 360.

Play Station 3

Out of the three, I thinkultimitely PS3 is the best engine. One reason that kept me rooting for PS3 are the unique exclusives. Metal Gear Solid with top notch graphics, great story, and the games play itself. MAG with its scale of 256 players, I love first person shooters like with big maps. The up coming games I am looking forward to are Gods of War 3, Heavy Rain, Agent, and many more. The New Motion Sensing Gear looks great, unlike Natal, this one is for hardcore gamers. PS3 has been very unlucky, first the unsuspected success of Wii, that came out on the same time with PS3, and the high price, we have to take into consideration, that the PS3 initial production cost is estimated to have been 805for the 20GB model and 840 for the 60GB model.However, they were priced at US$499 and US$599,meaning that every unit was sold at an estimated loss of $250.In January 2009 Sony announced that their gaming division was profitable in Q3 2008, and with third party like Rockstar making an exclusive for PS3, I think PS3 has a bright future.

PlayStation 3

Out of the three, I think ultimitely PS3 is the best engine. One reason that kept me rooting for PS3 are the unique exclusives. Metal Gear Solid with top notch graphics, great story, and the games play itself. MAG with its scale of 256 players, I love first person shooters like with big maps. The up coming games I am looking forward to are Gods of War 3, Heavy Rain, Agent, and many more. The New Motion Sensing Gear looks great, unlike Natal, this one is for hardcore gamers. PS3 has been very unlucky, first the unsuspected success of Wii, that came out on the same time with PS3, and the high price, we have to take into consideration, that the PS3 initial production cost is estimated to have been 805for the 20GB model and 840 for the 60GB model.However, they were priced at US$499 and US$599,meaning that every unit was sold at an estimated loss of $250.In January 2009 Sony announced that their gaming division was profitable in Q3 2008, and with third party like Rockstar making an exclusive for PS3, I think PS3 has a bright future.

Khanbhai0

This, PS3!

I like The PS3 LOVE THE WII and hate M$

EDIT : I think your thoughts on the Wii are wrong, Wii may have casual games BUT that attracts a TON of gamers ALL OVER THE WORLD and has more exclusive games than the PS3 and 360 put together! Wii is on FIRE and you cant say otherwise IMO

Nintendo - The only real innovators.

MS - Horrible business practices. I will not buy from them.

Sony - I'm glad their supermassive ego from last gen took a beating. I have a PS3 for those good 3rd party titles not on Wii.

I like how fanboys think that Nintendo didn't try to compete with Sony and Microsoft in terms of horsepower because, for some weird reason, they were unable to do it.

PS3 - sony lost out on alot by making ps3 overpriced and come out a year late. they didn't market it very well and they made alot of dumb descisions in general. they still make great games for me though, and that's what i really care about. they've made more good games this gen for me than the other 2 combined, so they are in my good books. I do wish I didn't have to spend so much on my ps3 though, although i did get a BR player too.

MS - Are doing better marketing-wise than last gen. but i don't like the fact that almost all of the BIG things they've done to 1up sony is giving 3rd parties money to make certain games timed exclusive, or to take away thier exclusives. Not because I am angry that they stole from sony, but because it doesn't really add anything to the industry. They should put that money to making new games. I give them credit for making/publishing more games this gen. than last though. I think LIVE is great, and I think overall xbox 360 is the best current gen console expierience so far. Another thing I don't like about MS is not only the RROD, but also the fact that 360 scratched discs like I scratch my nuts, which is all the damn time.

Wii - Nintendo's marketing to a completely different demographic than i am part of. I'm not a female, I'm not a child, and I'm not a long-time die hard Ninty fan. I still love Zelda games and mario galaxy looks awesome but everything else doesn't appeal to me. I don't hate ninty themselves, i've always been fond of them, but I just do not like the direction they are headed in general. Why can't they make more games that appeal to guys like me? They certainly have enough money.

Wii
I think the Wii gets unjust hate. Nintendo has never been about super violent and gorey games. You can go all the way back to the NES and only a handful of games each gen are gorey. Newbie gamers act like the Wii invented this or something. Nintendo used to be for "teh kiddies" and now that's changed to "teh casuals". There are two reasons to by a Nintendo console: You love Nintendo franchises or you like stuff like Wii Sports and Wii Fit. The Wii has had AAA titles in their 3 biggest franchises and in 2010 they have sequels coming to all of those franchises. They also have Wii Sports Resort and Wii Fit Plus coming. They're satisfying everyone who purchased a Wii for reasons that make sense. By "make sense" I mean that you didn't buy a Wii thinking it would be the great console for 3rd party support, which hasn't been the case since the SNES like almost 20 years ago, or you didn't buy it thinking it'd be the #1 console for M rated hyper gorey/violent games, which has never been a principle of Nintendo.

I don't think Nintendo is going to fall off anytime this gen or next gen unless Sony and MS radically alter their gameplan. Nintendo honoestly has created a whole new audience of Nintendo fans. You've got people who have been alive since the Atari and still didn't get into gaming until the Wii. Sega wasn't able to get them to do it, Phillips wasn't able to get them to do it, Neo-Geo couldn't pull it off, Coleco couldn't, Atari couldn't, Sony couldn't, and MS couldn't. You may think of that as minor, but it's a pretty major thing.

Sony/MS
I think these two are doing their thing and they appeal to the people they were made to appeal to. To me, MS is like Sony, but with good business sense. That's the major difference imo. I don't either lineup is hands down better than the other. MS has established itself as a strong contender in the gaming market. If Sony can figure out how to price things, which they haven't as evidenced by the ludicrous price of the PSP Go ($80 more for a smaller screen and 16gb of memory... what is this, a 360 HDD or something?) , they'll be go head to head with MS next gen. Neither of them will hurt Nintendo because of the whole audience broadening thing. Yeah, the anti-Nintendo person won't buy the Wii2 but they're anti-Nintendo... they weren't going to buy it anyways.

If the Wii 2 comes out with motion plus in both the nunchuck and Wii mote, it'll have an even better motion control setup Sony and MS have. Natal has other uses that are gonna be amazing if tapped, but I think the Wii-Mote with it's D-Pad, buttons and triggers and the Nunchuck with triggers and an analog stick is the ideal controller and ironically out of the big 3, it's the one that would work with the most games and it's the most similar to a standard controller that "hardcore" gamers are used to.

As far as power, The 360 graphics tech is chump change right now. By the time Wii 2 drops, graphics tech that twice as a powerful as a 360 will be chump change. The Wii 2 could be very underpowered compared to 720 and PS4, but spitting out gameplay graphics that look better than in-engine cutscene graphics today. Compare to the PS2.2 graphics of the Wii and that's a MAJOR upgrade for Wii owners. Combine that with them already enjoying Wii franchises and that brand name, there may not be any reason for them to goto MS or Sony.

Tech alone won't win it. If tech alone could, the Wii would be at 22 million units, the 360 would be at 31 million and the PS3 would be at 50 million.

First of all, Nintendo was NOT lucky. They had the guts to take motion control to new levels, had an incredible marketing strategy, and did their homework. It paid off.
Also, they were the ONLY ones to have 100% backward compatabilty and did an incredible job of supporting their VC.
Anyone that concludes Nintendo is better of being a 3rd party developer is just plain ignorant or a graphics whore.

Regarding 360, how can you say Natal is already catered to the casuals. It's not even out yet. What companies have developed for it that you declare casual. That's right: NONE. Why don't you wait until you see what companies make games for it?
And also, a little early to declare Natal a success. If you watch the demos of the Natal closely, there are half second delays between fast movement. It's not perfect IMO.

Regarding PS3, how is the New Motion Sensing for hardcore gamers? What games did you see come out for that? That's right: NONE. You saw a demo of a guy using a bow an arrow on goblins and ticking the ribs of a skeleton with a sword. Yes, it looked cool, but if you think no casual games will come out for it when released, you are disillusioned.

Nintendo=Cool but not for me.

MS=it's like artificially flavored fruit punch, sure it tastes good but it leaves you with an empty feeling in the end.

Sony=Apply enough preasure to a lump of coal and you'll eventually have a diamond.

In alphabetical order:

Microsoft - (^_^)b

Nintendo - (>_>)p

Sony - d(^_^)b

Ms - Don't care. I don't buy their products. I may next gen, but not now.

Sony - Same as above. If I want blu ray, I'll just buy a blu ray drive for cheap for my PC.

Nintendo - Gets too much hate. Sure, their market is over saturated by casual games. But not all casual games are bad. And even if the Wii has tons of bad games, they still have no effect on the good games. My only problem is the complete lack of a more powerful hardware. Even if they didn't put a good GPU in there, they should of at least had a pwoerful CPU. Imagine the Wii motion plus in addition to advanced physics. That would open up the door to some really cool ****, imo.

Nintendo is an interesting case because they don't have other departments to pad their investments. Microsoft and Sony have both relied on aggressive sales by reducing hardware prices to the extent that they take a loss on every sale. This is mildly shifty, because ultimately, you're paying for the costs of that console through the massive royalties they'll be getting from your purchases, but consumers know how much games cost, so it isn't much of a problem.

But if you want to know how I really feel...

Microsoft-Marketing

Nintendo-Marketing

Sony-Quality

There are different ways to appeal to consumers, especially ignorant ones. Microsoft and Nintendo are far more aggressive in their marketing and branding, whereas Sony has delegated its capital toward providing a quality, reliable product, a strategy that Sony employs in a lot of its divisions (not PC's though, ugh). I'm mostly just disappointed in gamers for short-sightedly grabbing 360's without thinking about the fact that paying for Live is going to make their console more expensive by the end of the generation. And I really don't believe that many people would prefer a 360 to a PS3; I always assume it's an adaptive preference or the result of MS's aggressive marketing.

Sony - I love 'em. Nothing more needs to be said.

MS - If money weren't a problem, I'd get a 360 even if it's just for the exclusives.

Nintendo - I want to buy a Wii just for the sake of having one.

I like The PS3 LOVE THE WII and hate M$

EDIT : I think your thoughts on the Wii are wrong, Wii may have casual games BUT that attracts a TON of gamers ALL OVER THE WORLD and has more exclusive games than the PS3 and 360 put together! Wii is on FIRE and you cant say otherwise IMO

EpiphoneMan2008

@ flazzle

I already told you these are my personal opinions, I am not persuading you to agree with me

I said lucky not, because they made something terrible which ended up doing better then other great products

I said lucky in a sense, because both MS and Sony were caught off guard

so read my post again carefully

[QUOTE="flazzle"]

Also, they were the ONLY ones to have 100% backward compatabilty and did an incredible job of supporting their VC.
Anyone that concludes Nintendo is better of being a 3rd party developer is just plain ignorant or a graphics whore.flazzle

dude, who doesn't like better graphics

yes I like games with top notch graphic, somthing Wii can't offer

Regarding 360, how can you say Natal is already catered to the casuals. It's not even out yet. What companies have developed for it that you declare casual. That's right: NONE. Why don't you wait until you see what companies make games for it?
And also, a little early to declare Natal a success. If you watch the demos of the Natal closely, there are half second delays between fast movement. It's not perfect IMO.flazzle

Milo- scary, disturbing, for educational purposes I guess

Dodgeball like game- just like Wii sports

painting- nothing to do with games

everything they showed was catered towards the casuals

don't get me wrong, Natal is a jaw dropping technology, but I don't know how they will be able to pull off a first person shooter, for example will you have to turn 180 degree in order to turn 180 degree in the game, you know what I am trying to say.

Regarding PS3, how is the New Motion Sensing for hardcore gamers? What games did you see come out for that? That's right: NONE. You saw a demo of a guy using a bow an arrow on goblins and ticking the ribs of a skeleton with a sword. Yes, it looked cool, but if you think no casual games will come out for it when released, you are disillusioned.flazzle

we saw a demo of bow an arrow, sword fight,strategygame, and most importantly a FPS demo

these are hardcore gaming orentiated demos

@ flazzle

I already told you these are my personal opinions, I am not persuading you to agree with me

I said lucky not, because they made something terrible which ended up doing better then other great products

I said lucky in a sense, because both MS and Sony were caught off guard

so read my post again carefully

[QUOTE="flazzle"]

Also, they were the ONLY ones to have 100% backward compatabilty and did an incredible job of supporting their VC.
Anyone that concludes Nintendo is better of being a 3rd party developer is just plain ignorant or a graphics whore.flazzle

dude, who doesn't like better graphics

yes I like games with top notch graphic, something Wii can't offer

Regarding 360, how can you say Natal is already catered to the casuals. It's not even out yet. What companies have developed for it that you declare casual. That's right: NONE. Why don't you wait until you see what companies make games for it?
And also, a little early to declare Natal a success. If you watch the demos of the Natal closely, there are half second delays between fast movement. It's not perfect IMO.flazzle

Milo- scary, disturbing, for educational purposes I guess

Dodgeball like game- just like Wii sports

painting- nothing to do with games

everything they showed was catered towards the casuals

don't get me wrong, Natal is a jaw dropping technology, but I don't know how they will be able to pull off a first person shooter, for example will you have to turn 180 degree in order to turn 180 degree in the game, you know what I am trying to say.

Regarding PS3, how is the New Motion Sensing for hardcore gamers? What games did you see come out for that? That's right: NONE. You saw a demo of a guy using a bow an arrow on goblins and ticking the ribs of a skeleton with a sword. Yes, it looked cool, but if you think no casual games will come out for it when released, you are disillusioned.flazzle

we saw a demo of bow an arrow, sword fight,strategygame, and most importantly a FPS demo

these are hardcore gaming orentiated demos

Nintendo: Love them

Microsoft: Love them, wish I had the time/money for a 360

Sony: Loved the PS1, wish I had the time/money for a PS3

MS: While I once considered buying a 360 I don't want to anymore. Many of my friends tell me if I'm not going to get XBL it's simply not worth it and is a mediocre console for singleplayer games. This coupled with my bad experiences with MS hardware and software and the lack of first party support make me wonder what I'd really be getting.

Nintendo: I love my DS and I'm getting a Wii this friday. The only bad thing I can really say is the Wiimote is a joke. It's standard hardware and it's functions often feel tacked on. While they try to make good use of it, they can't even use it properly except for games like Wii Sports. Things are looking up though and if the next round of games are a success I will be happy. There are already quite a few games that interest me.

Sony: PSP and PS3 are good devices, they have a variety of awesome functions and have an excellent variety of games I like. The only thing I don't like about my PS3 is the often unreliable online service. While I've never had problems in game, I have had problems using the browser, comparing trophies, and even in the store. They need to fix it. Btw Sony, can we get some new avatars?

Hmm let's see...

Nintendo: Innovators that keep the industry rolling, but sometimes overtake tradition with too much innovation. Plus, their reach to a whole new market kept them alive in the industry but completely shredded their old image. They know how to keep their main faces alive, but they are slowly shifting to a different style. Will it truly kill them or save them? We'll find out.

Sony: The kings of last gen! My god, any fool that says the PS2 was a bad console has completely discredited themselves. However, it took them awhile to realize that without polish, their name would rust in the industry. First few years have gone with some dryness for the PS3, but they are slowly showing off their stuff again. They'll make a comeback, I bet.

MS: Traditional gaming with a price tag at its heart, they have been one of the finer servants for the hardcore/traditonal gamers. Yeah, their hardware sucks, but at least they have some software to make up with the RROD. Plus, they keep live alive with new features and an easy way to play with friends... all at a $50/year price that is still argued as defendable or **** to this day. Compared to last year, they have definitely showed that they are willing to lay down the means and money for the industry.

So complain away people! They all have their ups and downs!

In alphabetical order:

Microsoft - (^_^)b

Nintendo - (>_>)p

Sony - d(^_^)b

GreenGoblin2099

Microsoft - Have already accomplished what they wanted to this generation, and with their commitment to lose billions if necessary to continue to increase marketshare, they should have the other two worried about the decade to come. Not a nice company, not an innovative company, but a rich company that knows how to corner a market.

Nintendo - Between the massive success of the DS and Wii, Nintendo has made themselves the envy of the gaming world. They make money off every console sold and sell millions upon millions of their first party heavy hitting titles. They've shown a huge market exists in new ways to interact with games, but you have to wonder if their underpowered systems will compete forever in a world where HD is quickly becoming the norm. They've certainly given themselves some time to decide their next move.

Sony - Has weathered a tougher storm than they ever imagined with the launch of their flagship console. They don't have the ability to take the amount of losses that MS seemed okay with, and will have to rely on reputation, brand loyalty, system specs, and first party titles to market their console for the short term until a signifigant price drop becomes feasible. They seem to have turned a corner in terms of Sony bashing from the press, to a focus about the impressive lineup they have have coming out now and in the near future. With a longer than usual generation cycle anticipated, and a ton of PS2 users still yet to buy a HD console, they still have a shot to overtake MS this generation. But the days of market domination are long gone. The capabilities of the PS3 will become more and more apparent as this generation goes on, but whether they can translate that into increased market share aren't guaranteed. The refocus on their profitable (but very second place) PSP will help them generate the revenues needed offset the losses in the next gen console sector.

I like how fanboys think that Nintendo didn't try to compete with Sony and Microsoft in terms of horsepower because, for some weird reason, they were unable to do it.

LordQuorthon

Wii

Love the concept, enjoy some of the games, but overall, a casual system, not a bad thing, but as a gamer, it tends to collect its fair share of dust, brilliant idea to go after casual gamers with an inepensive consle and make trillion of dollars, brilliant!!!!!

PS3

The best Blu-Ray player on the market, with a very powerful game system attached, it took time, but at least the PS3 is now becoming a good gaming platform, this is what happens when you make a game system to make the corprate execs happy, now that those execs have been fired, they are now making a good game console, good exclusives, and a system that still cost to much for what the masses see as a toy.

Xbox360

So far this system has the best collection of games that I like, who would have thought that if you like JRPG's you go buy the 360, wtf, anyway, can't wait for Forza 3 (very tired of waiting for anything from polyphonic, they obviously suffer from development constipation, nothing is moving). My whole family plays this system more than the Wii, or PS3. a fantastic gaming console that was desinged as a gaming console, and continues to be the most popular with our family

you are giving to much cred because of simple specs

dont forget

microsoft is using components of thirdparties like Nvidia (last gen), Ati and Intel.. its not like they are developing that stuff ..actually nintendo is doing the same.. they are just ordering components from ATi and Intel.. sony did develop the cell but well it got them nowhere..

Iown all three. I'll keep it very short.

Wii - gimmicky, commercially very strong but basically not for me. It's underpowered and doesn't get nearly enough games that really interest me. Some of the Nintendo IP's (Zelda, Mario) still make it worth to own one though and it's not that expensive anyway.

360 - Great games, controller superior for shooters, noisy and ugly machine though. I hate to have to pay for XBL Gold while the main competitor offers a service thatto me is similar in quality for free. Also RRoDfrequencies are unacceptable for a consumer electronic costing several 100's of €/$

PS3 - My favourite out of the three. Has the better exclusives to me and is superior hardware. I'm also still convinced that the PS3 will be the greater commercial succes after both the 360's and PS3's 10 year cycle. (I'm not including the Wii in this since it will be more commercially succesful in its lifecycle which I estimate to be a 5-7 year one though, that makes a comparison tricky)

sony - lol look at how they are doing right now.. complete joke

nintendo - king of the gaming industry.. well deserved this gen.. DS and Wii completely dominating everything and who says otherwise is just blind.. people like to pull the "no game that interests me" card.. but dont forget that the PS2 got a lot of hate in the forums too back in 2001~2003.. nintendos cocky attitude came back though..

microsoft - xbox was a bad joke with good games on it.. 360 was really great overall but they got unlucky with nintendo..

i like them all