This was a thread created 2 years ago, and Let's see how well my statements fare today. Ok, The title should be changed to "Unbiased Facts About the Current Consoles Revisited" now maybe but I just wanted to be consistent with the title.

People were throwing a lot of crap at me then  but look how things turned out.  The causes could be controversial at times but the results are clear. People try to "create sense based on a limited and often flawed information". There are many other variables which our "way of thinking" might forget/fail to include, either because there are just too many of them, or just people can't or don't want to see them.

Here are the facts that I had predicted and let's see how they turned out to be.

Fact 1 :  High Price Consoles never win!

Well, PS3 is not winning and 360 and Wii are selling more, right? Check!

Fact 2 : Sony's Technical Specs are always vastly exaggerated and Claims Never Come True!

Well, it was the case with PS1 and PS2, and PS3 can barely compete with 360, and only several first party games can surpass the 360 after loooooooong periods of development. Check!

Fact 3 : Always the Weakest Console wins!

This is not a reasoning, this is just a twist of fate, it happens to be so. And guess what? Wii is the weakest console and it is winning, by and large! Check!

Fact 4 : Sony is Notorious for the LENGHTY LOADING TIMES.

Unfortunately so.  And now what happens? They put "mandatory installation" to match the loading times of 360 or wii. The additional hard drive does not make it better than other machines. NXE on the other hand shortens the loading times of 360 considerably, making it faster than ps3 on equal terms. Check!

Fact 5 : PS3 has a greater speed as potential.

This potential is shown occasionally with games like Killzone, but not too often or drastic though (which is why it's "potential"). I'm still firm in my opinion that Xbox's superiority over ps2 was much greater than ps3 over 360. Check!

Fact 6 : Xbox360 has More Memory and a Better Memory Structure.

No question about. Despite improvements on the ps3 side, this is still the case, will remain so. 360 simply has more memory and better memory architecture as admitted by many firms. Check!

Fact 7 : You cant win globally if you fail in either of those two markets, Japan and America.

This is why 360 is not winning (and can't possibly win) this generation. Check!

Fact 8 : Wii is picking up and gonna take the lead soon.

That is what exactly happened! Check!

Fact 9 :  PS3 sales are far from building a momentum.

Yes, there is some sort of increase in sales but a momentum needs more than this. PS3 was surpassed by both other consoles in all 3 years now, so we can't talk much about momentum! Check!

I agree with them except number 5,i know any game for PS3 would look better on 360 cause the GPU is better and it would have AA.

Then why do so many multiplatform games perform better on the XBox 360 ... If the PS3 was as much of an improvement over the XBox 360 as the XBox was over the PS2 than (almost) no games should perform worse on the PS3 than they do on the XBox 360.

I certainly dont know how to create a hot debate, damn it!

link to the thread?

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=2643&page=1

would of been better if it was posted before the consoles released and not months after.

I am an analyst not a prophet! :D

but prophets are spiffy

"I'm still firm in my opinion that Xbox's superiority over ps2 was much greater than ps3 over 360. Check!"

Funny how the best looking game of last-gen was available only on PS2.