auroragb on 25 May 2007
| a.l.e.x59 said: I don't understand how just because a PS3 looks like a grill, means it looks ugly. Just because something looks like something else, doesn't necessarily make it look ugly. I mean, grills don't look ugly, do they? And besides that, if the PS3 didn't have that oval shape to it, nobody would ever think that it looked like a grill. In fact, I don't think the PS3, even with its oval shape, looks anything like a grill. Never thought, or even heard of an Xbox 360 looking like a Dell CPU before. Is a Dell CPU ugly, because it looks like an Xbox 360, or an Xbox 360 ugly, because it looks like a Dell CPU? Is a Dell CPU even ugly? I guess the Wii doesn't look like anything else. Well, actually, it does. It looks like a stand-alone DVD player, when placed horizontally. Uh-oh, I guess the Wii is ugly now, because it looks like something else. You should look at a console for what it is, not for what it looks like. I think all the consoles have a unique look to them. I mean, they all could look a lot uglier than they are right now, and they could all look a lot nicer than they are right now. But overall, I think they all look pretty nice. |
Well, grills are not known for being hi-tech.
Dell is well known for their commodity oem designs
The problem is really more with size than form. Both are too large, making associations with the multi-purpose PCs easier than single purpose (game console) devices. People really associate the next gen form factor being smaller yet more powerful (cell phones). The reference previous gen was the thin-ps2 (or at worst the classic PS2) which both the 360 and the ps3 were larger than.
Wii engenders reminder of the Mac Mini, which was generally praised for its design. But the design isn't that brilliant, but the compactness of the design makes it more pleasing than the behemoths that it's peered to in this gen.
