Xbox360=I love the 360,Its my favorite of the bunch,I like there controller the best minus the crappy digital pad and I commend the live service and feel its worth every penny of $50 a year,the ui is by far the slickest and easiest to manage,and indie games,netflix,and zune marketplace are awsome.I do feel microsoft relies heavily on a one holiday hit a year strategy.
they did'nt launch a hit there 1st year becase there was no competition,but follow this map for the holidays sine the launch of ps3,Gears of war '06,Halo 3 '07,Gears 2 '08,ODST '09,Halo reach '10,and I'm sure we'll see gears 3 for '11.sure 360 has some other exclusive gems,crackdown,fable,mass effect,and forza.but I think they take 3rd party support lightly,arrogantly feeling they'll automatically keep 3rd party support due to them being the leader in software sales,but I think sony has done a great job rallying for 3rd party support and it's starting to show,and I think if this natal thing don't pan out and sony catches up in hardware sales,360 will be sorry they did'nt draw strong alliances with 3rd parties as it seems sony is doing.
Wii=Very successful in hardware sales and 1st party software but piracy is killing 3rd party sales,nintendo needs to do something,the wii is so easy to softmod a caveman can do it,and I feel this is the Achilles heel to third part software sales thus making wii unappealing to 3rd party developers.
PS3=I think sony is finally coming into there own,a rocky launch and high priced hardware were initial deterrents to consumers,and the 1st couple years yielded no huge exclusives(other then Drakes Fortune)to separate them from 360,but now with a more comfortable price point,more big exclusives and the success of blu- ray I think they'll be fine ,though I'd still like to see the xmb get revamped to be easier to navigate ala the nxe.
