| Loud_Hot_White_Box said: Shadow of the Colossus, Twisted Metal, Singstar and many others also excepted. And, these 3rd parties that made the PS2 exclusives you're referring to? A number are making sequels exclusive to PS3. Huge names; system movers. Maybe you've heard of some of them or are selectively forgetting...I don't think I'll go through the list. If they happen to come out later for 360, too bad, too late...they won't jumpstart flagging 360 sales. PS3 has more developer support than 360 (talking about games in development and genres represented, not talking about number of games already released...1 year head start for 360 makes it apples and oranges). Plus, 100 Sony studio games in development...and a great many will be 'good' and yet crazily enough won't be GT or GoW. It looks great to PS2 upgraders. HD becomes the norm this year. PS3 is the box. PS3 has Blu-Ray. PS3 has the edge in games going forward. 360 will be passed and doubled up in sales by gen end. |
Actually, your very wrong. You see, she had to have a Playstation 2 for horror games. The GC had RE4, but that was it. The Xbox had SH4, but that was it. The PS2 had the RE4, and SH2-4, and the entire Tomb Raider franchise that she loved so dearly.
The issue is that, although the PS3 has them still, the Xbox 360 has the SAME games at a lower price point. If I buy her a PS3, what games is she actually going to get, on a PS3, that she can't get on a X360...That she actually WANTS? Singstar? I have Rockband (much better). Twisted Metal? Vigilante 8 is coming out well before a new TM comes out for PS3. SotC? She's never played it, and neither of us care about it.
It does NOT look great to PS2 upgraders. Unless you have a fetish for overpaying, your not really getting a better deal on the PS3...Your either paying $400 for a Playstation with litterally no BC (which is very critical for both her and I), or $500 for a system that still won't have many "Must Have" games in her eyes. Like I said, I'd gladly buy her one if there were any exclusives she was interested in. And there aren't. Her little 8 y/o niece is having the same issues: Her PS3 doesn't have the games she wanted. Her Wii and Xbox 360 are getting far more play, since they have the PS2 games she wanted.
And I wouldn't use the "PS3 has more Dev support" argument. Any preiceved "better" Dev support is 1st party, not 3rd. The 3rd party market is, at a minimum, the same. Both systems have a few games here and there that are good for their respective console: The PS3 has more J-centric games that are exclusive, and the 360 has more W-centric games that are exclusive.
So it basically comes down to that unless your in that crowd that will die unless you play MGS, Final Fantasy, or Gran Turismo, 3 games of thousands (all of which were PS2 staple games), you won't need a PS2. Because for those 3 big staples, the 360 has about 50 of them that are either 360 exclusive, or multi-platform at a cheaper price.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
