What a stupid post, KBG.

And you being a Sony fan has nothing to do with this analysis, right?

He was joking, right guys? Right??

Seriously, unless he had no idea how the Wii works, he cannot compare the Wii market to the PS3 market.

It's all about the friendliness of the controls. Wii is successful because anyone from 2 to 102 can figure out the controls in 5 minutes. PS3 controls are an amplified version of PS2 controls, which are confusing to anyone who didnt start with a PS1 or has any experience flying alien spacecraft.

If that doesn't set the stage, then how about the economic fiasco? $400+ isn't something anyone is ready to drop for a videogame system these days.

Sony must make their employees take sanity tests, and hire the ones that fail it. =)

NEED FACEPALM IMAGE... STAT!

Dille, STFU! For one thing, the PS3 controller is NOWHERE near as accessible to casual players as the Wii controller. If it were, the Wii wouldn't be doing nearly as well. Secondarily, the PS3 controller isn't suited as well for the waggle as the Wii does. Dille, answer me this: Can you, with an honest face, say that bowling on the PS3 would be superior to bowling in Wii Sports? Please answer me HOW.

And in this, we sum up with there is NO WAY that the PS3 (or even 360) experience FOR FAMILIES can ever end up superior or on steroids, or an upgrade or whatever. You have TWO things you offer with the PS3 that you don't get with the Wii: Better graphics, superior online play. THAT IS IT!

What is so card about "You move these two sticks, and then push the button it tells you to."


I am sorry but if you cannot figure out how to push the correct buttons you are a fucking moron. My cousin of 4 played my PS3 just fine. The controller was a little big for his teeny hands, but he was able to play sonic unleashed with few problems. I had to help him with some stuff sure. But that is only because he couldn't hit the shoulder buttons with his short fingers.


Anyone who says that Ps3/360- controls are too "advanced" for new players. . . they are stupid. Just a heads up. Most games you just use one stick and the four face buttons. How fucking hard is it to do that?

It isn't that they can't do it. They just have no interest in it.

I guess that's why they've only released 5 shooters out of the 42 games they've published on PS3.

Yes, you see, you should take my totally unfounded anecdote at face value and believe me when I say that it proves a larger point because

First, cursing isn't going to help your point any, in fact, it makes it less valid.

Secondly, you're too young to remember the origins of controls. The short of it - controls used to be very simple. As they got more advanced during the SNES/Genesis era (6+ buttons) more of the "casual" crowd died out. Now that controls have become simplified with the Wii again, these old gamers came out of the cracks. Its not that the little kids can't get it, its that the older ones that have been out of the loop can't.

Lastly, Sony really pushed things in an odd direction, choosing shapes over the traditional A,B, C, D etc names for buttons. They made it even less logical for anyone but core gamers.

And for the record, I DO say that the PS3 controls are harder for a new player to play pickup games, and stupid or not, Im a developer. My observations have been ongoing the whole time, watching the userbase change since the days of the N64 and PS1 to more and more of a core market.

You might want to change your tone a bit, before you get yourself banned. As you say, "just a heads up".

confirmed sony has small balls.

nintendo has big balls in the risk they took with the Wii

Surely this must be an old publication. They can't still be going on about this rubbish about graduating from Wii to PS3. Or was it Microsoft that was saying this before?