I don't even think it's worth fighting with this guys warped perception of logic.
I found something i agree with you on Jimmi!!
I think this guy has no logic, he obviously has nothing solid to back up his claims and is very good at spinning topics to his own agenda.
mosx said:
To restate, PSN as far as gaming online goes will always be free, games may cost, add-ons and micro transactions may cost, but gaming as in playing online and communicating with friends will never cost a penny. I know a few of you know me, this is more confirmed than any "search google" remark.
The $400 Ps3 is fully functional PS3. You may not get card readers and BC for PS2 games, but the PS3 features are there and fully funtional. Last i heard PS2 was last generation and is included as a bonus more than a required feature.
You must love playing Barbie Ponies on your 360, since its 1 of very few games that MS has made BC with the 360. MS has backtracked over and over releasing patches for BC, patches that if you had no HD you wouldnt be able to get, and they still have less BC than the PS3 had out of the gate.
WiFi is fine for gaming, you don't need N, nor do you need the speed of FastE or GigE netowrking. Most games are transferring nominal amounts of data as all of the intensive data is either stored locally on your system, or is contained on the disc in your system. To sit here and say WiFi is not enough for gaming basically shows your lack of knowledge. 90% of the problems I see regarding wifi on the PS3 boards are user error, or user setup problems, not pure WiFi problems. There was an issue back in 1.8 when WiFi could cause BD playback to freeze, but that was cured with the 1.81 software update. It also had nothing to do with games freezing, just movie playback.
Plain and simple the 360 is more expensive than the PS3 when you compare them 1:1, you can deny it all you want but it is the truth regardless if you accept it or not. The 360 has a longer warranty since it has a 30% failure rate, some say its higher than 30% but MS isn't saying much. Ill stick with a PS3 that has less than a 3% failure rate. The PS2 had quality issues in some of the runs. Sony learned from them, they admitted to using cheap components in the manufacturing of the PS2, something MS has yet to admit even though we all know it. Sony learned from the mistakes of using cheap hardware, the PS3 components are of the utmost quality and with a less than 3% failure rate I think it shows for itself.
Nintendo is a gaming legacy, to come out and say its just kid stuff is a bit ignorant. Gaming as we know it today was shaped by a lot of the descions that Nintendo made. Our controllers evolved from Nintendo, platformers evolved from Nintendo roots, at some point in time every gaming company wanted to be just like Nintendo and in some aspects still to this day most want to be the same as them in regards to making profits on their consoles from Day 1.
The Wii while having a gimmicky feel at times is a lot of fun to play. The gimmicky feel usually comes from poor development and not from the system itself. Mario Galaxy is a stunning game for the Wii, it pulls off the control scheme in a non gimmicky fashion and really does a great job of pulling you in to the story. Zelda is a great game, my only complaint with it was that I would have loved the option of being able to use the CC to play.
The Wii has its merits, its sales show that it can appeal to people that may not have been interested in our industry in past generations. It overall can help all consoles as they may pick up interest in other games on the PS3 or the 360.
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