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JPL78 on 22 April 2014
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BMaker11 said:
JPL78 said:

BMaker11 said:

And even if it were a simple as that, don't act like Xbox fans haven't been flip flopping all over the place anyway. Better resolution/framerate, better sales, exclusive DLC in games, etc. were topics Xbox fans were championing all last gen and now, all of a sudden, they don't matter.


I agree but that goes both way. When the original Xbox had more power than PS2 it was a huge argument for the Xbox owners and the PS2 owners claimed it really didn't matter.

My view is that if I'm going to have a console for 5-8 years then I would like it to be as powerful as possible. There is no down side to that.

That's a significantly different scenario, though. Gen 6 was so lopsided in favor of the PS2 that despite being more powerful, Xbox just didn't get as many games. Yea, sports games, Soul Calibur 2, and late multiplat releases (GTA and MGS2 come immediately to mind) looked better on Xbox, but when Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts, Tekken, MGS3, Devil May Cry, etc. never touched the console, power comparisons don't matter. You can have the most powerful console, but it doesn't mean anything when it doesn't have the games to back it up. There was no "sharing 95% of the same library" in gen 6 between PS2 and Xbox. Such a comparison only became relevant between PS3 and 360 because they shared so many games, and it looks like it'll be that way this gen too.

For example, I could have that $9600 Mac that blows everything out the water, but there's no point when most of Steam's games are only on PC.

I don't know, Kingdom Hearts aside all of my favorite games that generation were on Xbox. Morrowind, Kotor, Fable and far superior versions of the original Splinter Cell trilogy come to mind. All those games you named either didn't matter to me at the time or came out in HD versions last gen.

That 9 thousand dollar Mac serves arguably many far more important uses than just playing games. Despite what some people like to believe I still think a console serves one primary function: to play games.

i was agreeing with you though. People pick and choose their arguments regardless of whether or not they have argued against that same point previously. Politics are full of this as well. It really doesn't matter what point mattered before if you just ignore that and claim the opposite. People usually have short enough memories to not call you out on such bullshit flip flopping.