Do you people see the sale shifts?

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MGO was lame because of Konami, not because of PSN. Granted... I doubt such a system would've even worked on XBL.

And personally, I think there's more to it than just paying for XBL. When people buy a Wii, I think they're sort of throwing their money away, since it's $200 for a minor upgrade to the Gamecube and motion controls. However, they're still buying a reliable system, and the only system that offers motion control. Currently, there is no alternative for motion control.


With the 360, it's different. If you want to download games you need a proprietary hard drive, if you want to play online you need to pay a fee, if you want wifi you need to pay $100 or mod a $50 router, and on top of that you have glaring problems with the hardware itself. More than anything, the biggest reason I question whether it's intelligent to buy a 360 is because there are alternatives. You can play most 360 games on a PC, and if you like playing in front of a TV, there's a similar console experience to be had on the PS3.

There are only a few scenarios where I really accept buying a 360 over a PS3 or PC/PC upgrade. If you don't want to play games online, have a PC that's so bad it's not even worth upgrading, like playing in front of a TV, and want to buy a cheap HD system, the 360 was 100% for you. The other scenario is if you're the type of gamer that wants to experience everything and doesn't care enough about cost to have it prevent you from getting something. I used to fall into the latter category, but $500, $400, and $250 launch price points and $60 games changed my stance.


I know I'm pretty opinionated about the 360, but that doesn't derive from being a PS3 fanboy, it derives from my decision in late 2007 to ultimately pass on buying a 360, and to wait for a drop in the price of the PS3. I wanted a 360 much more than a PS3 (I played my Xbox far more often than my PS2), but passed on it because I thought about the commitment to XBL, I didn't want a dead system (granted, this was before the 3-year warranty), I knew I'd need a wifi adapter, and I knew that eventually I would upgrade my movie experience to high-definition. As such, I'm probably a little extreme.