Time for some history and a math lesson ladies and gentlemen.

The Sony Playstation - a revolutionary 32 bit console which was released during the holiday season of 1994. (As a bonus fact, I was only 8 months old at the time. :lol: )

Microsoft Xbox - Released on November 15, 2001 in North America. Later released in Japan on February 22, 2002, then released in Australia and Europe in the month of March, 2002.

That was a bit of history - now here's the math lesson.

2009 - 1994 = 15

2009 - 2001 = 8

Putting it simply, The Playsation has been around for 15 years, while the Xbox has for only 8.

Well, why am I bringing this up?

It seems to me that the common gamer who owns a PS3/Xbox 360 (meaning the younger crowd, people from probably my age to about age 21 or so) have completely forgotten the fact that there actually werePlaystations before the PS3. So many times I see people saying:

"Well, the PS3 has better exclusives, it has ALL OF THE FANTASIES, Tekken, MGS 4, God Of War 3 and a bunch of other stuff. The 360 has little amount compared to the PS3 that are up to par."

Why would anyone do this? Why would anyone even think about making a comparison like that? The Playstation has been around for a good 7 years before the Xbox. With that said, it all simply comes down to the fact that the Playstation came first. It isn't exactly fair to judge the Xbox when it so much younger. And people also forget that without the PS1, there wouldn't be any of their precious exclusives, let alone a PS3!

The timing of the Playstations release was actually, a very, very good time to do so. In my opinion, the 90s had to be the most creative era when it came to video games. Everything was improving rapidly (technologically), and game developers decided to push themselves even harder, because the boundaries were virtually limitless at the time as they saw it. And with it, came the legendary long-running franchises such as MGS, Final Fantasy, Tekken and so on.

I know that there were releases of FF and MGS games before the Playstation, but it's a pretty safe bet to say that those franchises really grew into the giants they are today because of it.

To both shorten this blog a little bit, and to put it simply, the 360 cannot have an arsenal of classics to compete with the PS3, because Xbox did not exist during the 90s.

I could seriously drag on this on forever, but it's getting kinda late. So I'll leave it at this.