ok FFXIII wnent multiplatform. So what, when square jumped from nintendo to sony did nintendo die? NOOO!. Did the nintendo fanboys just go insane and sell thier n64s? NOOO. Square is out to make money. Microsoft felt dumb because they couldnt get MGS4 multiplatform. So they went for sony's next big game, FF13. I mean at this point i myself think square did a good thing for the interest of thier company. It is a japanese company and so is SONY . So they kept it exclusive in japan. Sony puts out alot of animes based off square games in japan. I myself have lost faith in square. They havent made a good game since FFX. ff11 was just not my style. And 12, well 12 was ok. i hate seeing all the "omg im selling my ps3" threads. You bought it to play mgs4 and FFXIII, why sell it to play a ported FFXIII on another console. If squenix announces a parasite eve game or Kingdom hearts then we tlkn buisness. I dont know why people are going bonkers over star ocean,the latest one only sold a little over 1 mil copies world wide.....(VGChartz)... I dont think the 360 is a good platform for JRPGs , just doesnt seem right. All animed up charatcters on an american console. Its like if mcdonalds started selling generat tso's chicken, or sushie....I mean they dont exactly sell as well as we would like em too, even blue dragon(0.49 mil worldwide) lost odyssey(0.74 mil), I think square should make more ps2 titles. i think all true rpg fans, stick with thier ps2. It will always be the undisputed rpg king.

except it will take 5 minutes of loading to look like that because of all the texture pop ins.w0lfbreeder

lol verrrrry true

Microsoft- For many of the past E3's microsoft has had a halo game to really make the show. This year that was not the case. This year Microsoft a company that at first was pretty humble about thier success with the 360 has turned into a bunch of childish rich guys who show that money can get them whatever they want. I enjoyed the microsoft conference with games like gears 2 and fable 2 on the horizon. I must say i am most dissapointed with the new xbox update. It shows absolutley no innovation at all. I cant really blame Sqenix for makine FFXIII multiplatform. And rockstar making exclusive content for 360. Microsoft has the money and the rescources to make this happen. Microsoft only has 1 console on the market in which to concentrate thier resources on. Nintendo has 2. Sony has 3. So Microsoft will obviously have more content, more 3rd party support and more software. Microsoft's little chart where they showed console sales seemed to not agree with nintendo's. I think nintendo's chart was more accurate. You cant possibly expect us to believe that 360 is outselling ps3 and wii combined. The wii alone is outselling the 360. All in all i enjoyed the confrence. Squenix didnt betray sony. It'd be betrayal if they announced that it was no longer going to be on ps3. FF versus 13 is still a ps3 exclusive in all regions. FF13 is still exclusive in japan. Japan has already made it known that JRPGs on 360 arent going to change thier minds. Blue dragon + Lost oddessy= no change.

Nintendo- This will be short. The confrence was pretty boring. Why? Nintendo doesnt need a great confrence and price drops to make people change thier mind about the wii. The wii is dominating, hands down. The DS and Wii are just an ustoppable force that sony nor microsoft can compete with. Im no fanboy, i dont want the wii, but its clear as day that nintendo is not a force to be reckoned with. They know what thier doing. Theyve been doing it for 25+ years. A pokemon MMO for the wii would just be insane. Animal crossing is going to be great. Good Job nintendo.

Sony- Going into the confrence i thought that sony would have something up its sleeve to combat the FFXIII announcment., but i was dissapointed because there was none. Just more killzone 2, more resistence 2, GOWIII( cool) and more a bunch of psn downloads. I mean MAG is cool, but its just another shooting game with more players jammed into a room. All im seeing from sony is a bunch of 1st party SCEA games. Its as if sony of japan and sony of america are at war with eachother. There are aloott of cool and interesting games over there.....that arent over here. I missed the ps2 games of having a bunch of japanese made ps2 titles. I guess those days are over. After watching most of the confrence it dawned on me. Sony has to move money around for 3 platforms. PS2,PS3,PSP. Which is probably why games take so long to come out. Or why PSN is so lacking. The PSP is the second best selling gaming platform wordwide only behind the DS.The ps3 has gained the overall sales lead in europe over the 360. The ps2 is still selling well suprisingly( who doesnt have one of these,lol) The ps3 is seeing growing sales, which is good. I dont think people should judge Sony's performance only on the ps3 alone. Theyre trying i guess. The ps2 got huge support when it was SCEA's only concern. Anyways i enjoyed Little bug planet showing, and Home looks great. The introduction of the video service for the psn shows that sony is trying i guess.

All in all this years e3 is pretty lame. I hope MS, nintendo and Sony the best of Luck with thier consoles. These coming monthes seem to be great for us Gamers. Nothing innovative, nothing fresh, but all cool.

CONGRATS TO WHOEVER READ ALL THAT.

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I suppose, as many of these posts reflect, the only way to answer the original question is to define why you bought the console. I bought a PS3, in part, because of brand reliability. I know my system will not break multiple times and that it will not be disregarded by Sony once the PS4 comes around. Even if the PSN wasn't free, and there were no exclusive games, I would be inclined to buy a Sony console because I know it would work. That is the reason I buy consoles, so I could play games on it. Of course playing games is hard to do with shoddy craftsmanship and no chance of an afterlife for the console.

Also, I guess you could answer the question by defining "losing." Microsoft recently announced that they would outsell the PS3 overall. If Microsoft continues it current business practices there is no way that this will come to fruition. Each week the PS3 outsells the 360 worldwide, and so common sense tells us that when the Xbox720 comes out and MS drops the 360 the PS3 will easily outsell the dead console. And this scenario is based on the small possibility that the PS3 has not actually outsold, worldwide, the 360 by the release of the 720. Clearly Microsoft has its own particular definition of "winning" and "losing" that is not based on popular perceptions. As should be clearly evident you have to clarify your terms so that your question can be properly answered. There is too much inherent ambiguity in the term "losing" and in the end your discussion will break down because of the lack of clear parameters.

However, not to be needlessly coy, I will answer your question based on my own definitions of winning and losing, that I have partly expounded on here: I did not buy a "losing" console.

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Dude I had to Quote you."BRAVO" 1st of all you're an idiot.2nd you idiots did buy a LOSING CONSOLE.3rd I hope i get banned for this so I'll make a new ID and bash PS3 even more.I dont know what you're trying to say by"your system will not break multiple times".I had my about 2 and half years now , didnt break even once.4th Mircosoft said that they have already outselled PS3 worldwide.So yea you **** you did buy a LOSING CONSOLE.5th all the PS3 owners , take your sh!t back to the store ad JOIN THE BEST EXPERIENCE ON THE NEXT GEN WHICH OFCOURSE IS XBOX 360.6th Dont say I'm a fanboy,becuase I'm not.7th I wanted to buy a PS3 , but dont feel like spending my money for something that I already have and which is better and that is XBOX 360!!

if u watched the nintendo conference you would know that microsofts numbers were a little far fetched. You cant outsell a console world wide when the 360 is virtually dead in the asian region. So they only have US and European regions to do well in. ps3 overtook the 360 in overall console sales in Europe when mgs4 came out in june. microsofts sales numbers were from march. nintendo's confrenece sales charts were most updated with NPD numbers up to June. i like the 360 and all but,M$ likes to brag over a bunch of rubbish.