> -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 9:00 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: My 360 is F'd again!!! > > I haven't picked up a PS3 or 360 yet. I have been leaning towards the > 360 > due to price and the library, but stories like these are really making > me > rethink my stance. Plus, BR has one the day so it would have extra > functionality.
I've got both (and a Wii and a PSP and several Gameboys and two Gameboy DSs...) Personally I'm on my fourth XBox (my launch PS3 has been a tank). The libraries will equal out in the next year or two and there is truly little difference in the price. If you want to play online with the 360 you need to add $50 a year for Live Gold (PS3 online play is free). If you want more HD space you have to pay $200 for MS's 120 Gig drive (the PS3 is user upgradable to pretty much ay laptop drive - I put a $160 GB drive in mine for $70). The 360 WiFi adapter is $100, on the PS3 it's built-in. I'm not saying that this makes the PS3 any better than the 360, but I think it does offer something to think about beyond the base price. MS has done an excellent job of securing exclusives for the 360. Great, AAA games like "Gears of War", "BioShock", "Mass Effect", "Halo", etc. can only be found on the 360 (or the PC - if you already have a gaming PC the choice becomes harder). Very good games like "Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey and others are also 360 only (not all exclusives are must-play games). The PS3 has had less luck at this but first and second-party studios have ponied up exceedingly well. "Resistance: The Fall of Man", "Uncharted: Drake's Fortune", "Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction" and even some games without colons in the title like "Heavenly Sword" and "Folklore" Both systems have populated online game libraries. Although Live Arcade has many more games most are classic ports while the PS3's smaller library has, I think, more interesting and experimental games overall - in other words it's a toss up. Over the first year a slow PS3 adoption led to many previously exclusive games moving cross-platform. "Virtua Figher 5", "Devil May Cry 4", "Assassin's Creed", etc - all "PS3 Exclusives" that went cross-platform. Although it's level-setting rapidly many cross-platform games have played better on the 360 than the PS3. Games like "Madden", "The Orange Box" and "Assassin's Creed" had shoddy or buggy PS3 versions. Although many of those games have been fixed by patches it does little to improve the reputation of the system. The same vein many big name games come out of the PS3 weeks or even months after the 360 versions - although again, this is changing for the better as well. It's arguable but I'd say all of this has been due to sheer numbers: it's much easier to convince a company to stay exclusive when the alternative won't produce many sales anyway. The 360 had a year's head-start - more consoles means more sales. If a nice big check from MS to keep it exclusive could further offset development costs then that's just good business. The PS3, a more complex machine, is also more difficult to develop for costs are higher and ports were getting short shift. Again, potential sales dictated resources spent. Once you spend that kind of money on resources you want to maximize your investment: a port another platform becomes very attractive. With the numbers starting to approaching equal and developers getting more comfortable with the PS3 the playing field is nearly level now. You still see deals being made (like MS exclusivity agreement with Rockstar about downloadable content for GTAIV) but they're much more rare. We're also seeing publishers trying to make a bit more money by porting previous "exclusives". "Oblivion", "Lost Planet" and "Eternal Sonata" have all been released or confirmed for the PS3. It's really going to be up to the first and second party developers and the few negotiated exclusives to distinguish the systems. Both systems have a great line-up although there are constant rumors about some games going cross-platform. The talk of "Gears of War" or "Left for Dead" going to the PS3 or "Metal Gear Solid 4" or "Final Fantasy XIII" going to the 360 will probably never stop. For my part, my tastes, the PS3 wins in the forseeable future hands down. "Little Big Planet" is going to be a sea-change of a game - the field will be Unrecognizable in a few years because of this game (yes, I'm making it that important and my world will be shattered in pieces if it sucks). "Resistance: the Fall of Man" was the first FPS that I've truly LOVED on a console and the first time ever that a launch game has completely and totally made the purchase of the system worth it: the sequel looks to be better. "Killzone 2", "Infamous", "SOCOM", etc are all looking great. "God of War III" has just been announced (nothing shown) but that alone is enough to make me drool... the series has never had a misstep and while there's always a first, this won't (I'm predicting) be it. The 360 title just don't intrigue me. "Gears of War2" and "Fable 2" are both "must buys" for me (although both will end up better on the PC eventually) and will probably succeed (using history as a guide) in breaking 360's five and six. "Ninja Gaiden 2" seems to be making all of its press on big tits and spraying blood. Besides, if history is any guide they'll repackage it fifteen times across platforms anyway. I've never been crazy about the "Halo" games so the collection of games set in the "Halo Universe" don't interest me much. I still do quite of lot of gaming on my PC (which is more powerful than either console and still the best way to play FPS or strategy games). Nearly every game I've cared about the 360 has ended up on the PC or PS3 (albeit up to a year later). So just looking at exclusives and options I lean to the PS3. Now add to that my practical experience with the 360... with the amount of failures I've had I will never buy another cross-platform game on the 360 (GTAIV's on the PS3, DL content be damned). Quite literally every single time I've gotten truly engrossed in a 360 game I've ended up with a new unit. I've already bought two 360's outright and although I've invested a lot (too much) in games, arcade titles and accessories I won't buy a third - the first out of warranty failure is the end of the 360's life in my house. Sorry for the book... it's Sunday morning and I'm feeling introspective. ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:258783 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
