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LULZ Playstation
If you have a PSN account you may want to mitigate identity theft...HERPA DERP
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But seriously. A PS3 was never a worthwhile purchase. The only PS3 exclusive game I can think of worth playing is Little Big Planet 1/2. It's not worth all that money to play LBP. A lot of people bought PS3 for Blu-Ray. Blu-Ray is also a moronic investment in the days of streaming and downloading digital HD files.
Sony has also a long history of royal fuck ups. Sure, every company has a history of fuck ups, but none in the tech sector even come close to Sony. Oh how short is the memory of those who don't even remember spyware DRM on audio CDs, Atrac3, memory sticks, UMDs, bad cd-roms on PS1s, removing Linux and backward compatability from PS3, Bleem!, and Geohotz. Really damn short because Geohotz was just weeks ago.
Now you get what you deserve for giving Sony money. Let it be a lesson to all of you.
Uncharted 1 and 2 bitches!!!
The xBox is the console that confuses me. All the exclusives are boring console shooters. I have a gaming PC. Shooters are meant to played on a PC.
I don't have any intention of jumping ship over this. Yeah, I have to get a new piece of plastic with a new number on it, but it's not like I've never had to do that before. It's a minor setback. The majority of the games I want to play are still on console, which means either PS3 or 360, and getting a 360 would be a much bigger setback on my finances in comparison.
However, I will say that if Sony is stupid enough to let this happen again, I'm not giving them another chance.
The degree to which the 360 kicked everyone's ass this gen is astonishing. They took everything they learned from the first Xbox and built on it. Whenever there was a mistake, they fixed it. They integrated their online stuff perfectly, and they struck a nice balance between being a next-gen system and attracting third party developers. They built a console that didn't try to be a computer but also wasn't just a toy, meaning that each platform brings in the dough from not just sales but a lot of long-term game purchases, Xbox Live, arcade games, etc. Not only does it move units on the first-party and A-list titles, but there is a constant flow of B-titles hitting the system to provide background sales from which gems occasionally leap. Meanwhile, Nintendo and Sony jumped off opposite ends of the spectrum straight into stupid.
The Wii moved a bunch of units, but the gimmick got old real fast and no serious developer gave it the time of day as a result, so it ended up with some shiny A-level titles from Nintendo itself and a massive pile of unplayable shovelware. Nintendo is already moving their next console out the door because they aren't getting that long term income from the system; they are just riding the blitz of sales from being a fad, so they need to be a fad again. It's not a workable long-term strategy; as Rym and Scott will attest, Nintendo has managed to piss away the goodwill of their consumer base to a degree that would be impressive if it wasn't so sad.
The PS3 had the exact opposite problem, it's price point and the difficulty developing for it meant that it launched with jack shit in terms of games and absolutely nothing on the horizon for months, which killed it's early sales. The releases since have been a slow trickle compared to the other two systems, and it also suffers from the fact that it doesn't really have solid B-titles, which was sort of what made the PS2 what it was. It has the same half-a-dozen A-titles coming out, and tie-in multiplatforms. It has little potential for left-field breakout exclusives because unless Sony is pimping it nobody wants to develop for the system.
I like QTE.
As far as I'm concerned, PSN does one thing for me, and it does it pretty well, and that's provide a store to download shit from. And unlike XBL, it uses real money. I'm curious how you come to this conclusion. In terms of Wii-exclusive games I've ever played (which is all my Wii games), I've enjoyed... 1.