| JackHandy said: Not in my opinion, and I at large portions of that generation, had all three consoles. The Wii was the best family console. The 360 was the best hard-core console. The PS3 was really only great at providing those single-player experiences, which Sony is known for. Well, that and the ability to play Blu-ray discs. Everything else about it was worse than the 360, imo. Worse online. Worse versions of multi-platform titles. Slow UI. PS3 was Sony's lone fuck up. At least in the home console space. But it still sold really well, so I don't know how much of a negative that really was. |
I had all 3 consoles as well, all 3 from launch.
While I started out playing 90% on 360 during PS3's first year, then my 360 died. So I played more on PS3 and cancelled gold since the 360 was gone for repairs. 360 came back, RROD again 2-3 months later. Meanwhile I had gotten used to playing online for free on PS3. When the 360 came back the 2nd time I just used it sporadically, afraid it would break again... (Which it did anyway later, got a replacement but by then most of my games were on PS3)
Then PS3 also started bringing the best exclusives while GT5 became my most played game. So the last games I played on 360 were Alan Wake, Fez and TWD. Bioshock and others I played on PC.
So while the OS was slow, the store a pita, the browser a joke, it did get the picture quality right (360 had a build in gamma adjustment causing black crush) as well as excellent sound quality (MGS3 over LPCM 7.1 was glorious) where 360 only did compressed DD 5.1, and had that cool glass door (animated icons) for games and movies.
PS3 felt like a multimedia player first, console second. But still had amazing game support.
Wii was great as well, but getting into full 1080p TVs at the time, 480p was looking kinda rough on 52" 1080p. Good for stylized games but 3rd party games were often a pixelated mess.
Free online also helped the PS3's comeback after a terrible launch. While it wasn't as good as XBL, not having to pay for your own online must have made a difference.
Yet agreed, updating games on PS3 was a huge PITA. GT5/GT6 patches, ugh, never again. PS4 was still bad with 28 minute update time for a 300mb GT Sport patch. (Cause it needed to duplicate the entire game on the HDD to apply the patch)
