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Infamy79, I like your sig... :)

Which of those consoles were/are outselling the competition in it's twilight years? None of them.The only thing they do is keep ticking over but the console manufacturer must release a new console before the current one is discontinued.

Or maybe, just maybe, we're not 40 million retards and Nintendo has come out with a quality console that puts control and gameplay above pixel count and gives a lot better experience than playing the same old uber-violent game in it's umteenth reincarnation whose tired old story line hasn't really changes since the SNES as have not it's same fumble fisted archaec hand controller - both of which we are not supposed to notice because we are dazzled by the pretty pictures.

And by the way, the places that are supposed to be the best judge of the quality of the games are your own brain. The reviewers will always like the types of games that made them succesful enough gamers to get a reviewing gig.

And yes I play some casual games including Wii sports and I enjoy them. Yes I could drive 30 minutes to a real bowling alley but since I use it as a 10 minute muscle stretcher, that would be self defeating. Of course,  those used to years of gaming sitting on their ass on the couch might fail to see this. Also I suspect that if i tried racing a giant Ape aound inside a shopping mall on motorcycles, the manager would probably get all pissy or something.

     First paragraph:  I don't think the storylines are tired and old.  GTA IV for instance has a great story and great music.  Cry by 10CC, The Stooges, Smashing Pumpkins, Fleetwood Mac, The Sisters of Mercy, Ace Frehley with "Back in the New York Groove", the Allman Brothers, "Shikki Shikki" all adds up to a terrific soundtrack even though many people that must not be able to tell good music from bad try to say that it doesn't.  And I guess I'll have to try to play a thirty to fifty hour action adventure game or rpg game on a Wii to know if the controls are really that much more comfortable than gamepads for that purpose.  You indicate in your post that you play Wii most often as a muscle stretcher for about ten minutes at a time but that is quite a bit different in duration from trying to play an FF, GTA, MGS, or even Zelda game to completion on it.

     Second paragraph:  Not really.  I don't want to walk in Game Stop buy a $50.00 to $60.00 game just because it is sitting on the shelf, then get it home, open it up, put it in the console, have my own brain tell me that I've wasted my money, and then try to take it back and have Game Stop say, "Oh, sorry, we can't take it back because you've played it."  This isn't the early eighties and the purpose of review scores is to let you know which games are worth spending your money on and which games out of similar games deserve your money the most.

@BTFeather: No they are superior games. If they weren't, i would like PS360 games more.

The thing is, that the only way to measure whether a game is superior to another game is the games appeal. And the only way to measure the appeal is to judge it by sales. There's also the thing called "accessibility". I would guess that Master of Orion 3 would be somewhat the "ultimate" TBS on paper, but it's somewhat the shittiest TBS ever. And why is that? All the accessibility have been killed with the amount of micromanagement. It may be a fun game for the first ten rounds the first time you play it, but after that it sucks hard.

In the end, subjective opinions don't mean a shit, which of course includes the reviewers too, when we compare it to public opinion. As i said earlier, your opinion is irrelevant when the public opinion is the one who makes the judgement. Your opininion is relevant only when you make a decision to purchase a game/console for yourself.

      You contradict your first sentence with the first sentence of your third paragraph.

Dont listen to some of these guys. I agree with you ^^

It is the perfect plan though. Sony can loose this gen(not to say they will. But when the next gen rolls in they will still have the PS3 sitting there, with 60million plus userbase already. When a switch happens with the XBOX720 and WiiHD the PS3 will be comparable or even still better and with greater marketshare then both. That means that it would make more sense to developers to develop for the PS3 still. There would be NO way the competition will ever be able to recoup a 60million lead, and thats assuming that the PS3 might not come 1st THIS gen.

Regardless, the PS3 is the system of the Future. Some are just in denial.

@BTFeather: Yes, that was the whole idea. I said the same thing as you did with the post i wrote my reply to; we both cherrypicked a fragment of the market as a proof of own opinion being right. It's no different from saying that Ferrari Enzo is a better car than Toyota Hiace.

If people here thought logically, about 80% of the threads and posts would disappear. Surely, you come here for entertainment and not logic. For the most part, you're basically dealing with Junior High/High School kids who have the world figured out already thus what sort of logic can you really expect?