Do it right or dont?    Maybe Microsoft should have stayed away from those Nintendo Miis then. I think you like achievments more because they where the first thing you got use to. Mayb you had the xbox first? I duno...

Completely nonsensical article. I love to laugh at these articles that pretend to be fair but are motivated by jealousy.

you can say that loud. i really got hooked  when i got uncharted platinium

 LOL!! That one made me explode from laugh

Correct to some extent, though towards end it was getting almost ridiculous.

@twes

That's OK that you agree with the article, but does it surprise any of us? I don't see mods post articles like this hardly ever. Everyone on this site also knows you're a ninja 360 fanboy, so it's no surprise you post an article like this about the PS3. Just like you banned me for calling out an anti-PS3 troll in a pro-PS3 discussion. (And he didn't even get a warning, like he never does, cuz he does almost the same thing you do)

Tell me something...what do you LIKE about the PS3? Everything you post about the PS3, while trying your absolute hardest to sound unbiased, is anti-PS3. I think I may remember you saying one good thing about the PS3...ever. Every time you make a discussion thread, it's 90% of the time about something being wrong with some feature or offering of the PS3.

All the exclusives you try, you get on and pick apart and go on and on and on about what's wrong with the game. Every feature the system offers you have a problem with.

I'll get banned for this because he's ninja, though.

While they are pretty much the same thing I personally prefer achievements to trophies.

When I received my first platinum trophy from LBP it felt good, but there seems to be something missing it is just that I can't quite put my finger on it.

I think this may be part of what contributed to me ditching my PS3 for almost 2-months now (one day turning it on to play some LBP by request). When I see someone on my friend's list with 5120GS and I see that I have 5090, trust me, I pop in a game and pass that sucker right up!

Edit - Come to think of it d12 might have a point there. When I get a trophy and hear that "ching" noise it just doesn't have the same effect as "ploop". I like the "ploop".

I think the biggest issue with trophies is exactly the mentality that has caused Sony to fail this generation, it's all about elitism (ranked trophies). Some may like this, but they are the niche hardcore gamers who need validation to try and prove how good they are. Microsoft's achievements are a good happy medium, a casual gamer who likes playing lots of games at a shallow level can get as many gamer points as a hardcore gamer who completes only a handful games entirely. This will probably piss off the hardcore gamer, but it makes the whole system more accessible to everyone and Nintendo has proved that this is what brings success.

Obviously there are also things like the complete integration with the Live system as it was designed to be that way rather than getting tacked on as an afterthought, but I think you can clearly see the mentality behind the way Sony think in their trophy system. They are yet again catering to the elite minority.

Trophies and gamerscore points are the same thing with bronze trophies being worth a point silvers 2 golds 6 and platinums 12. i mean cmon this article is nothing but a lash at ps3 and how it "copied" MS. the trophies are a great way to show how skilled the player of the game is and when u see somebody with a lot of platinums u say "wow he's a gamer" i just don't see that with gamerscore points

i still prefer trophies and the orgasmic sound it makes when you get one