DaBIAS said:
Well peope come down harsh on the PS3, yet when wii games fail to out sell it even with a user base over two times bigger no one comes down on the Wii. Why is that ? PS3 future rides on a few games that might or might not be exclusives, yahh real bias. And for 360 well really is there life with no Halo ?
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I wonder if there is actually so much live even with Halo, I mean, how many people are still out there that love Halo and don't already own a 360? If you love Halo you love FPS and 360 is your choice. I've been saying this for long, but after the beta started for the third installment it's proving Gears of War is technically superior. Halo 3 has a great chance to sell like crazy the first week for the reserved and then fall like Jurassic Park 2, The Lost World did in the box office. Granted many will buy bundles with the game, but most already have the system so no extra sales. The only thing that gives the 360 a chance to beat Xbox are the multiplatform games and the weaker Sony. Other than that, X360 performance is anything but spectacular.
About Wii, IMO the first post is biased against it. First, there is nothing besides personal wishes that can make you think that Wii will not increase sales for the holidays so the 360 can catch up, and there is no mention of Wii health or Wii Music and the many clones there will be. Both will most probably be a super-hit in Japan, and the first has the biggest potential ever to expand the market to non-gamers worldwide, like Brain Training but addressing something we care much more about than brains, which is of course looks.
PS3 has the richest and most diverse catalog of AAA titles coming in the next 9 months. It's the finest hardware of the three and frenetic software updates like the one coming out today and Home are putting it way ahead of what 360 delivers aside of just gaming. Will it be enough to recover such a sad start? I hope so, as I like the best machine to win. But it might not, just as I already witnessed better machines lost to better marketed ones (Apple to PC, Amiga to Atari ST, MSX to ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64 and so on)
What annoys me the most this time is that is not that the 360 is better marketed, is that a lot of negative press has been generated against the PS3, with pseudo-truths or straight lies. A bit like when buzz was "Amiga has viruses and hangs up" (which machine didin't?) or "PCs are more powerful for serious work" just because it couldn't do any decent graphics that was supossed to mean it was a "serious" machine... just remembering makes me upset! How can people spread and believe so trashy arguments?!
