S.T.A.G.E. said:
My family went the cheap route and got the arcade, because I wasn't about to buy another 360 because that was my second one which had red ringed. They bought the Slim arcade for $200. I went for a month of doing anything with it, because it had no games outside of Gears. I was still on a backlog of PS3 titles at the time. I finally got to renewing Live because my friends were bitching at me to renew it, so here I am. I ended up downloading a couple demos and buying Gears and the 4GB HD the Arcade had was shot. I had to fork out $130 for the extra HD (320 GB, Microsoft intentionally took out the cheaper HD which should've dropped to $99 to make it the equivalent of a console price all together), so essentially the PS3 is cheaper by $80 if gamer gets a slim by accident and has to replace the HD and cheaper by $50 with the HD in anyway. You must not have been paying attention to the rest of what OP said, he said might have to upgrade his PC. It was then recommended that he overlook the 360 and upgrade the PC , then if he wants more games the PS3 is the next console of choice unless he wants Halo, Gears and Forza. Sound reasonable enough? P.S. Yes, Sony has more shooters, but as far as exclusive lineups are concened, they aren't dependent on them like Microsoft. Sony's variety speaks for itself, which is why people don't hold it down to shooters. It's a telling story really of where companies stand in terms of making or endorsing genres. |
Hmmm I missed it when he said he would upgrade his PC, my bad.
What shooter outside Halo MS depends on? Other shooters that are talked on 360 are multiplatform shooters.
You still didn't told me why you HAD to buy an HDD for your 360 and how didn't you find games worth owning except for Gears... really! I own a 360 and I love Halo but I don't own Gears as I don't like that franchise too much neither do I own Fable... so is my library empty of good games?
I assumed that since the OP came from the Wii, which doesn't have an HDD, he wouldn't care much for an HDD. It's not required to play games on 360 (I know 2-3 games requires it). He didn't have nor wanted to get a PC that runs today's games so 360 had a fair share of PC ports and has the better version of most multi games it's only normal I put 360 foward. He likes adventures and rpg... seriously, is PS3 that better when you consider this genre... it's all a matter of taste, games outside PS3 are good to other people.