REAL Unbiased Console Comparisons

[Grey Acumen]

Sullla said:

Don't listen to these folks, Grey Acumen. A complicated question deserves a complicated response. The idea that every topic can be solved with a couple of pithy one-liners is one of the biggest fallacies of our current generation. I read your entire post and enjoyed the discussion. Anyone who goes out of their way to declare "I refuse to read anything that long!" is only proclaiming their own ignorance.

The suggestion I would make is to perhaps try your hand at some more specific predictions; the only one I saw in there was that the Wii would be ahead of the 360 in worldwide sales by September. It's one thing to say the Wii will win, another to try and predict where sales will be at the end of 2007. Anyway, something to think about.

Also a minor mistake: the 360 sells for $400, not $500.

Aw, thanks, I knew would be some people who could make it through the whole thing. Thanks all of you guys ^^

As far as making specific predictions, I'm perfectly willing to let VGchartz and the prediction league handle that stuff :P I far prefer to predict as accurately as possible with known data. My biggest problem at the moment is that all three companies are really on the fence right now.

Nintendo needs to improve the use of the motion controls in their games, and give support to developers that do this, in order to keep the console as a whole from being watered down with bad games. The average consumer doesn't research every game they buy, and they could easily end up grabbing a few really bad games and thinking that they actually represent what nintendo can do.

Sony needs to show that it is worth the price by gaining an advantage in the bluray market and capturing those whimsical games like LittleBigPlanet that will keep it from falling into a niche like the 360 has done. Also, they need to staple the mouths shut of their PR team, cause they're so constantly switching between what they publicly state and what actually happens that no one believes them anymore.

Microsoft needs to concentrate on breaking out of their niche. They need to get an incredibly awesome FUN game that doesn't come across even remotely harcore. On top of this, they need to work on solving their Red Ring Issues. An extended warranty is like saying you can get free gas for your car when there's a hole in your gas tank. The free gas is great but when you run out of gas cause it all leaked out, you're stuck until you can GET to a gas station.

And you do have a point about the core 360 going for $400, but I was also focusing more on the Elite system in the "Wii at $250 vs. PS3 and 360 at $500" argument. I had meant to point out how even $400 can be viewed as too much in my line about how quickly a price can go from being a good deal to a bad deal, but I aparently skipped past that.

The multiple SKUs with Microsoft and Sony is another issue that I have with the two companies. It straight out confuses things.