As for original and innovative, the PS3 is the only things that did anything innovative and that was blue ray.  Can you name any other feature that is innovative.  (Don't give me any "it was the first console to do [something] that the PC was already doing")

XBOX360 live isn't very innovative.  It just adapted what PCs have had for years and taken it to the consoles.

Blu-ray isn't innovative. A larger capacity disc? DVD kind of already did that over CDs. Higher quality video? That happens with lots of video codecs. Any of it's bells and whistles? They're just bells and whistles.

Note that applied to HD-DVD as well, and any other would be HD disc format. HD is not innovation.

According to NPD's Anita Frazier it's outselling the PS2 at this time... and the PS2 already had a pricedrop.

So no.

They don't though... the only innovative thing I can name on the PS3 is Valkria Chronicles... and even then... that really wasn't because it's kinda just ripped off from Phantom Brave on the PS2 with a cover system.  (Action in an turn based enviroment.)

Natal will be innovative when it comes out... nothing the PS3 has done has been innovative as of yet though.

like a few people said,

it is the lack of games mainly from 3rd parties. Look at this HUGE window Nintendo left open. They cannot complain that they are competing with Nintendo games.


Nintendo should of done some aqcuisitions of studios that went bust. ie factor 5 and free radicals. It would not hurt them. All they would need to do is give them gidence like the old days Nintendo and Rare, and these third parties could of had some awesome games on the Wii.

Problem is I don't think Nintendo Japan realise just yet how important good 3rd party games that are western oriented are for people outside of japan.

They should also bring back quality control. Screw those whining developers who complained about how hard it was to pass a game on the N64. This is what gave the N64 an aweosme alround library of games.

N doesn't need a pricedrop, they could just drop the bomb and announce most of the titles they have in developement (followed with screenshots) to create a megaton.

You can now purchase and stream movies to your TV with either HD console, that is quite a big change from last gen....

Sure you've been able to stream movies on a PC for a while but there's a huge difference between streaming on your PC and in your living room on your 42 inch HD TV..........

That would just create them financial burden if/when the times go bad.

I like the thing they're doing now - simple cooperation (like with Metroid - other M or with sega on S&M) -> greater flexibility and they can take their IP's in new directions. I would love to see what would Suda51 do with some of N's IP's

Not if you hook up your PC to your 42 inch TV.

Most people don't have their PC next to their TV and having to move it each time you want to watch a movie is quite a pain.

That and watching a movie on the Xbox360 or the PS3 is a lot more casual friendly that it is ona  PC hooked up to a TV..

It takes me 2 minutes if I have guests to rent a movie and start watching it on the PS3.

A lot less than it would take to unplug the PC, bring it in the living room, replug it, ( I woudn't even know how to plug the sound into my home theater), and then get on netflix and order a movie...Besides how many PC users even have a spare HDMI cable to plug their PC to their TV ?

Plugging your PC to your TV is still not something most people know how to do or would consider, sorry...