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Carl on 25 October 2009
Khuutra said:
Carl2291 said:

People do play the irrelevant trash though.

Example. 

So, tell me, and don't get mad:

When did you play Carnival Games?

When my little sister got it early last year.



                            

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Dgc1808 on 25 October 2009
Khuutra said:
DGC, refer to point 4.

I understand this topic may not be particularly fair to single-console owners, but have you had any experience at all with the Wii or 360?

Oh, my mistake...

Well... if it's worth anything:

On 360 i've played:
Gears of War [4 hours]
Halo 3 [6 hours]
Dead or Alive (45 mins i think...)
Devil May Cry 4 [8 hours, even finished the game on Son of Sparda mode]
and a few other things but not enough play time to mention them...

On Wii i've played:

Wii Sports [2 hours]
DBZ:T3 [3 hours]
that's about it...



4 ≈ One

outlawauron on 25 October 2009
RolStoppable said:
psrock said:
RolStoppable said:
Khuutra said:
RolStoppable said:

Yes, but on average the PS2 still had the worst library of the four consoles last gen going by Metacritic.

Rol don't do this, you know what evil this may unleash

I am just stating a fact, even if it is absolutely useless.

@psrock: Yes, I am sure. Some website once had a comparison of Metacritic scores between 6th and 7th gen consoles and the PS2 and Wii had the lowest averages of their generation. Obviously because they attracted the most shovelware due to their popularity. If you consider that many crappy games aren't even reviewed at all, it would even get worse for those consoles.

You missed out one thing though

The PS2 had 63 games with over 90 aveg, which was more than the xbox and Cube put togheter. I think they made up beautifully for those shovelwares.

Moving on.

The PS2 also had like two or three times as many games as the Xbox and GC combined. That easily offsets the higher number of good games. It just goes to show how silly Carl's original point was. Most people don't mind if there are 1,000 bad games, if they have enough good games to choose from. So when comparing libraries of consoles it makes more sense to focus only on the good games instead of the libraries as a whole. Why bother with the irrelevant trash you won't play anyway?

I think it also has to do with those shovelware titles finding great success on the Wii whereas most of the trash was not very successful.



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O-D-C on 25 October 2009

Wii > X360 > PS3



Khuutra on 25 October 2009

All right, now this one is for Carl and Outlawauron both:

What would make these high-selling games (like Carnival Games) "trash"?



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Carl on 25 October 2009
Soriku said:
Carl2291 said:

People do play the irrelevant trash though.

Example. 

So? What should it matter to you whatever anyone plays (unless you want them to play something with you online of course)?

What if a system had 1000 bad games, but 100 good games? Would it not be a good purhcase even if for every 1 good game there are 10 bad ones?

What does it matter? I only gave him an example of "irrelevent trash" that people play. 

If a system has 1000 bad games to 100 good ones, it lowers the average quality of that systems library. That is all im saying. It would be a good purchase if you liked the 100 games. Where did i say it wouldn't be a good purchase?



                            

vlad321 on 25 October 2009

Does PC count? If so when is the cut off?

If not:
Wii, the only true console that sticks to a console's advantages and doesn't half-ass what shouldn't be on a console to begin with. Also Wii Sports is an aphrodisiac, I swear.



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1337 Gamer on 25 October 2009
Kantor said:
1337 Gamer said:
Kantor said:
Chrizum said:
Kantor said:
1337 Gamer said:
IMHO the 360 has the best library. Definatly not for 2009 but overall it wins by a mile. And 2010 is only going to add to it. 360 has the strongest 2010 lineup of all 3 consoles.

The sad thing, Khuutra, is that the only thing you're going to get is posts like this and people deliberately annoying you.

Is that what you intended?

Wait a minute. Are you going to be butthurt every time someone prefers something else than the PS3?

Alright.

No, not at all. He could have said:

IMHO the PS3 has the best library. Definatly not for 2009 but overall it wins by a mile. And 2010 is only going to add to it. PS3 has the strongest 2010 lineup of all 3 consoles.

And I would be equally annoyed.

apparently i mis read something in the OP. What the heck do you want me to say? you asked which current gen console has the best games and without going too much into detail i stated my opinion.

I realise I'm being a bit of a hypocrite here, but could you be a little more specific? He did ask for justification.

So anyway, I choose PS3, because it has a wide variety of genres, both existing series (which, owning PS1/PS2, I am a fan of) and new IP, and great games spaced throughout the year. My favourites include the Uncharted games, LBP, MGS4 and Killzone 2, as well as some multiplats like BioShock and CoD4.

I think that's what we're supposed to do, but I'm not sure.

My favorite console line up is on the Xbox 360 right now. It started in 2006 with Gears of War and that was the first true Next Gen experience (as far as HD consoles go). Then it continued in 2007 with the release of Halo 3 and Modern Warefare, and Mass Effect. 2008 was also a good year with Gears of War 2 and other great multiplatform titles and 2009 has been a decent year with Halo Wars and Halo ODST as well as Forza 3 and tons of other multi plat titles. 2010 looks to be a much bigger year with Splinter Cell, Alan Wake, Mass Effect 2, and Halo Reach.

 

In the end the 360 provides the most games that cater to my tastes. Im a big FPS and Racing fan and they have all my bases covered.



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Sh1nn on 25 October 2009

PS3



Khuutra on 25 October 2009
vlad321 said:
Does PC count? If so when is the cut off?

If not:
Wii, the only true console that sticks to a console's advantages and doesn't half-ass what shouldn't be on a console to begin with. Also Wii Sports is an aphrodisiac, I swear.

Nah unfortunately I had to leave out the PC because it's never really "current-gen" and it would muck up this discussion just trying to hammer out the parameters of consideration on that front.