Motorstorm has far better graphics than Forza. End of story.
GOW is OK in single player. The multiplayer gets old pretty quickly. The biggest limit to it is that only 8 people can play in a multiplayer match. Warhawk kicks its ass in sheer scale and variety of gameplay.
The 360 seems incapable of producing huge high detailed worlds. Most 360 games are a campaign mode with linear maps that "look" big via optical illusion (e.g. GOW, COD, GRAW) + multiplayer on smallish maps.
In contrast Motorstorm and Warhawk have huge outdoor environments. I've yet to see that on the 360 other than in Oblivion, which is a single player game, and I own most of the good 360 games.
Wait a minute, first you say the 360 can't produce huge worlds and then you say that Bethesda did it with Oblivion, well if Bethesda can do it, that means it can be done, right? Why are you contradicting yourself?
Oh, and Forza 2 looks better than Gran Turismo 5, oh, wait, that's right GT5 isn't out yet and probably won't be for another year!!
And it's funny how if Motorstorm is so good, why is Sony giving it away for free now? You don't give away your killer games for free, your killer games are what are supposed to make people buy your system. The fact is Sony's killer apps have all been disappointments so far. Lair and Heavenly Sword both stink, as does Resistance. Sony is even selling a bundle in Europe where they are giving away Lair, Heavenly Sword and F1 with each system sold. Resistance was included in an older pack, but that one isn't being sold anymore. Again, if they are such great games, why are they being given away as pack ins?
Sony has eliminated all hardware backward compatibility in the 40gb model and removed part of it in the 80gb model. What happened to backwards compatibility being an important part of the PS3 experience and Sony knocking MS for their partial backward compatibility? So now if you want full backward compatibility without issues you have to buy both a PS3 and a PS2.
Sony's online service can't touch XBox Live and Marketplace. For a system with WiFi built in, you would think Sony would have had a decent online service ready in time for the rollout and yet a year later, it still shows no sign of ever becoming half as good as Live.
1080p games versus 720p. Sony keeps saying they can play games in 1080p, well guess what? Hardly anybody owns a true 1080p tv, so it's useless to 99% of gamers. At normal viewing distances, you can't tell the difference between a 1080p image and a 720p one anyway and there aren't a lot of 1080p games being written because the game publishers know these things. If ESPN HD prefers broadcasting in 720p instead of 1080i/p because they say the images look better for fast action like you see in sports, there must be something to be said for 720p for games, also.
Game publishers also hate programming the Cell processor and it's proprietary memory. Valve farmed out the Orange Box to someone else to translate for PS3 because Gabe Newell couldn't be bothered with it, which is why it was delayed for PS3.
The Blu Ray drive is also slow at data transfer. Bethesda had to put redundant data on the PS3 version of Oblivion so the Blu Ray drive wouldn't have to search the disc whenever it had to load something in or else you wouldn't have been able to move through the world seamlessly.
Sony doesn't care about gamers, either. The PS3 is designed first and foremost as a Blu Ray player. They are sneaking it into households under the guise of a games console. If Sony really cared about gamers, they would have released the PS3 with a DVD9 and a price tag $200 lower from the start. That doesn't matter anymore, though, since the first sub $200 HD-DVD players will be hitting store shelves this Christmas and XBox 360 owners have had one for even longer than that. Blu Ray may have taken a temporary lead in sales, but once those cheap HD-DVD machines start flooding the market, it's going to be over for Sony.
With all the new technology in the PS3, it can't outsell the Wii or even the PS2. As long as the PS3 remains a distant third, game publishers will be reluctant to release games for it, and they certainly won't be releasing any exclusives. We keep hearing rumors about games that are supposed to be PS3 exclusives being released on other platforms, only for them to be denied and resurface again a few weeks later. There must be some truth to them or else they would die once they are proven false. We will most likely see 360 or Wii versions of these games simply because game publishers can't ignore the numbers for very long.
Sony is flailing around wildly like a blind man looking for the exit. Sony is pretty much in trouble on all fronts. They are facing increased competition in all the markets they are in and their quality is slipping while major competitors like Toshiba and Samsung are building up their customer satisfaction levels. Sony had to sell off their CPU plant that produces the Cell processor to raise some desperately needed money to keep the PS3 on the market. They also sold off their joint venture to make LCD screens with Samsung. If PS3 and Blu Ray don't make it, it's going to be hard times for Sony.
So get a 360 and a Wii and pass on the PS3.
each one with a completely different art style...
