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reask on 23 July 2008
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Groucho said:
reask said:
Groucho said:
reask said:
EdGuila said:
The 360 has been out just under twice the time the PS3 and Wii has but just higher scores on those charts.

I expected better things from a one year head start.

 

I think the headstart thing is old hat at this stage.

 

all 3 consoles have been out long enough to have there act together.

after all this is sonys third machine.

 

Just because you've heard it before doesn't mean it's not true, or that the "old hat" doesn't fit. 2.5 years is a pretty big difference from 1.5 years. The 360 has about 550 games registered with the ESRB, whereas the PS3 only has about 280. Sheer numbers make for "better library"... but if you're going to drag the PS2 into this with "Sony's 3rd machine", you'd have to drag in the PS2 library as well. God of War 1/2, and most of the good PS2 JRPGs, still kick the behind of any X360 game I ever played.

I love my 360, but.. comeon... its not the savior of the console world.

Still when you constantly hear people saying the ps3 is the superior machine you would imagine every game is better on it.

Hence it should be ahead, lots of ps3 owners on this site anyway seem to regard the 360 as inferior.

 

The PS3 is a superior piece of hardware, with a considerably more difficult architecture to develop for... much like the PS2 relative to the GC or XBox (except that the PS2 was inferior to the XBox, and arguably so to the GC). That didn't stop developers from making a ton of great games for the PS2, however, probably due to the 1-year headstart it had.

Frankly, the current situation, with excellent 1st party exclusives for both consoles, but cross-platform games lagging behind on the PS3 until recently (GTA4, DMC4, Oblivion were all at least as good on the PS3, by most accounts), is exactly what I would expect at this stage in the life cycles of both consoles.

We, as consumers, won't really know which platform is "better" for another couple years, in my opinion. Development-wise, this is circa 2002-3 of the last generation -- the years a large number really big PS2 game series first emerged (the first episodes of Ratchet & Clank, Jak & Daxter, FF X, to name just a few). The truly amazing games on the PS2 (and XBox, for that matter: e.g. God of War, FF 12, R&C 3, Jak 3, Fable, Forza, etc.) didn't really start appearing regularly until nearly 2004-5. Even the sports titles didn't really hit their stride until about then (Madden 2005, NBA Live 2005, NHL 2005 are regarded as landmarks of the last gen, in sports).

 

well why do something stupid like that after all people  dont want to know the ins and outs of there console they just want to play games on it.