if your an intelligent gamer like i am then you SHOULD knoSolid-CELL

Hahahahahaha.

Irony.

[QUOTE="Buff-McBlumpkin"]

[QUOTE="Random__Guy"]I don''t own any next gen system, Im not a fanboy, I don't think i'l ever get 360 or wi.
But i cant believe what a disaster the ps3 is Random__Guy

If you don't plan on playing/owning any of the new systems.... and you never planned on buying a PS3..... why exactly do you care?

Then why did you post this thread?

I don''t own any next gen system, Im not a fanboy, I don't think i'l ever get 360 or wi.
But i cant believe what a disaster the ps3 is Random__Guy

If you don't plan on playing/owning any of the new systems.... and you never planned on buying a PS3..... why exactly do you care?

360 had its rough spots as well.

That being said, I read the article and they're all legitimate points.

For me the two most important being: More great games (especially exclusives,) and fixing the fundamentals of online. Including the SIMS (Home) is nice and all, but the fundamentals (unified friends lists and ease of inviting friends to play games/matches, and ease of voice messaging) absolutely needs to be in place before it becomes a competetive online alternative.

I've heard that people are complaining about Home.

Wha?

Why?

I see nothing wrong with Home.

Enlighten me. 

Willy105

Nothing is wrong with Home per se - it seems like a cool feature, my major complaint is with Sony's online priorities.

Home is a nice feature and all, but they need to fix the fundamentals before they start adding features like Home. They need to fix the Friends List issues (the ease at which one can invite friends and other players into games and matches,) they can't leave this up to developers to implement on a game by game basis - history has proven that if they do this it simply won't get done half of the time. They also need to fix the voice-messaging issues - voice messages should be easy to send and listen to, even in-game. They need to unify and streamline these basic features.

The heart and soul of a good online gaming service is the ease at which one can play and communicate with friends and other players within video games. Features like Home make good services better, but without the basics in place and streamlined added bonuses like Home to very little to improve the online service's most important feature - playing games online with other people. Home itself, though, seems very cool.

This has always seemed like common sense to me... even when the news was first announced I was asking these questions:

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=25431026&page=1

The issue isn't what's wrong with home, it's what wrong with PSN's basic functionality.

The Point Of Tippin article was obvious a ploy for Cows to stop mooing over PShome and PS3. Being the genius I am, I sat back and saw the whole picture. GameSpot wanted to even out the ownage that we cows was dishing out....shungokustasu

YAHAHAHAHAHA.

Yes, because GS designs their main features around the idiots in System Wars.

Please.

I played Oblivion for 200+ hours...

It's on the PC as well, but there's certainly nothing preventing the 360 from having extremely long single player games.

Bill Gates should fly to Japan and secretely purchase 200,000 360's one month, just to freak people out.

[QUOTE="BaconBallz1337"]SSX Blur and Paper Mario.xxThyLordxx

Don't overspend on HDMI cables.

HDMI transmits a digital signal, the cheap cables have IDENTICAL performance to the ultra expensive ones. They either work, or they don't. There is absolutely no advantage to buying expensive HDMI cables, so don't let some salesman talk you into buying what amounts to snake oil.

I've used Monoprice several times, they're great. If you're looking for great deals on quality cables, that's the place to go (here's the HDMI cable you'd need for your PS3: )

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10240&cs_id=1024004&p_id=2412

Here is a good tier list of Blu Ray picture quality if that's a concern of yours.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=753726

[QUOTE="LucasDigital"][QUOTE="Buff-McBlumpkin"]

[QUOTE="Baird-06"][QUOTE="Ace_WondersX"]I hated it when people tell these stories, cause everytime I play my 360 i get afraid, but it's going on a year and still no problems, only froze once.Bgrngod

Technically fraud:

Go to Best buy with your credit card. Purchase an XBox 360. Take the new 360 out of the box, put the broken 360 back in said box, and the next day return it with an effective excuse (not that "it's broken" or they'll look at the unit itself.) They'll refund the charge on your card.

Worked for my buddy.