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sinha on 18 September 2007

I'm trying to decide between a PS3 and a Wii for later this year, and after that rather impressive video I was leaning towards the Wii.
After looking at actual images from the game, I'm back to sitting on the fence.



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

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mr-money on 18 September 2007

That's just like the movie at the beginning of Sonic and the Secret Rings. It's all pre-rendered. You can see none of it is gameplay.



shams on 18 September 2007
sinha said:
I'm trying to decide between a PS3 and a Wii for later this year, and after that rather impressive video I was leaning towards the Wii.
After looking at actual images from the game, I'm back to sitting on the fence.

If you want to choose a console by looking at a bunch of screenshots - then the PS3/360 is definitely the one you want.

The Wii will never be able to compete. At the least check out movies of the game in action. Metroid 3 is the perfect example of this - the screenshots look crap, and the game looks sweet in motion.

This game is a most definite party/family game. If you want a console that is "social", that encourages family or friends to come over and play with you (esp. non-gamers) get a Wii. I can swear to its success in that area.

If you care more about gfx, presentation & "movie like" cinematics - get a PS3. That seems to be the direction that Sony is pushing in at the moment.

...

If I was going to recommend an answer to a friend, it would be:

 - get a Wii this Xmas
 - get a PS3 next Xmas  (the price saving could almost pay for that Wii from 12 months ago!)

 

 



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couchmonkey on 18 September 2007

My name is Che Guiverra and I endorse Shams' post.



sinha on 18 September 2007
shams said:
sinha said:
I'm trying to decide between a PS3 and a Wii for later this year, and after that rather impressive video I was leaning towards the Wii.
After looking at actual images from the game, I'm back to sitting on the fence.

If you want to choose a console by looking at a bunch of screenshots - then the PS3/360 is definitely the one you want.


It's not that easy.  I already have a 360 so to some extent a PS3 would be superfluous (many of the same games I can already play).  Plus the PS3's games keep disappointing, at least so far.

I'm not choosing between the two just by looking at screenshots, I'm saying this video had me leaning towards a Wii when I first viewed it.



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

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Chadius on 18 September 2007
Xyrax said:
MontanaHatchet said:
Good graphics but crappy gameplay?

Nice to know.

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Smashchu on 18 September 2007
your mother said:
Hus said:
How the hell can any of you think thats in game ?

Oh, that part's easy.

All you need is your

G A Y

 


Fix'd

I just hope it's good. I have high hopes as IGN liked the build at GC 07.



Legend11 on 20 September 2007

I hate to get into this again but I don't think that's in-game.



twesterm on 20 September 2007
Legend11 said:
I hate to get into this again but I don't think that's in-game.

I'll completely agree with you this time.

 

Legend11 on 20 September 2007
twesterm said:
Legend11 said:
I hate to get into this again but I don't think that's in-game.

I'll completely agree with you this time.

When SSBB comes out we can all go back to that video and It'll be obvious what I was talking about.