| windbane said: *sigh* And yet I will respond. You can define AAA however you want, but 89% isn't much less AAA than 90%. There are a lot of great exclusives on he PS3 now, and seveal of he highest selling 360 games are on the PS3 (CoD4, GH3, Oblivion). As previously stated in the post you responded to, Sony's big exclusives are coming on stong and most people realize that now. You may have head of GT5, MGS4, LBP, etc. M$ is one of the leaders in HD downloads because not many peope are doing it. Aren't they behind itunes, netflix, amazon, etc? Regardless, blu-ray is catching on faster than DVD did and most people see the added value that the PS3 provides. An add-on is not going to even that out, either, should M$ give in to paying Sony (and the rest of the blu-ray consortium) royalties. M$ charges $100 for a 120gb hard drive if you screwed up and bought a Core or Arcade and want to play GTA IV and other games that require a hard drive. I'd rather have a smaller HD in a fairly priced console. "Joe Six Pack" is more likely to know that the PS3 has blu-ray now, though. You can't argue which console is more "fun" because that's subjective. Based on review scores the 360 still has the best lineup, but tha gap closes every month. They can't afford to drop the price $150 because their games divison needs to make money. Come on. The 360 is in trouble because unlike the PS3 last year when it was trailing, the PS3's future looks much brighter. The lineup is better for PS3 and the system is a much better deal. Not to mention the PS3 is a great piece of hardware and he 360 still has a plague. |
At the end of the day you have to make a distinction between what is and isn't AAA. Forza 2 is at 89, but I didn't include that did I. I'm sure the PS3 does have some great exclusives, and I didn't say it doesn't. Personally I thought Uncharted was great. But Auron was saying that the Xbox 360 was "crappy." Where did I say anything like that about the PS3?
There are many reasons to suspect Blu-Ray won't be NEARLY as successful as DVD. When DVD came around it was a revolution, providing ease of storage, massively improved picture quality and it had no competitor. Blu-Ray is an evolution, same size as DVD, less noticable picture quality improvement and two major competitor's in the form of DVD and downloads. Furthermore, it requires an HDTV, wheras DVD had no such requirement.
I already addressed the HDD point with making music.
I agree that 'fun' is subjective, but the simple fact is that the 360 is well-improved year over year with strong exclusives existing, strong exclusives coming and is therefore not, by any reasonable measurement system, crappy.
Fair enough?
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