IainHello kiddies, It’s great to see nothing has happened in the five minutes since my last post, so with that in mind, here’s part two of my gamespot copy-a-thon, entitled “Lucky number 7(th Generation).
After having an fight over the pros and cons of the three 7th generation consoles with a bunch of xbox fanboys and getting nowhere, I decided to post up my opinions on here….
Graphics
360: Looks the best out of the 3 so far
PS3:On paper it blows the other two out the water but in reality, the cell proccessor is still causing problems for developers
Wii: Basically a suped up gamecube so doesn’t come close on technical graphics although it is much better for artistic graphics.
Controls
360: best for shooters. has a rubbish d-pad though
PS3: the best (not including arcade pads) for fighters but the sixaxis was lame and it took sony too long to get dual shock in it.
Wii: basically a pointer from an interactive white board and a mediocre motion sensor shoved into a controller. Granted it was marketed really well because it even fooled me into thinking it was revolutionary at first, but then after playing wii for a few months I realised how wrong I was.
Games:
360: lots of exclusives. Most of them are good but only a few are excellent
PS3: Has lost a lot of exclusives because they pumped too much money into the console and not enough on keeping exclusive rights. It still has MGS and GT (for now) though.
Wii: well for a start my old nintendo favourites, like mario and zelda, have been done much better on previous consoles and the third party games are either based too much around mini games or are only fun for 10 minutes at a time.
Online:
360: Slightly more reliable than psn but not £40 a year more reliable. It does feel like more of a community than the others although most of that community is made up of pre-pubescent boys who think constant high pitched singing during a game is fun…..
PS3: well it’s free but it isn’t as stable as live. It can also support a lot more players in a game because of the dedicated servers it uses but resistance 1 and 2 are the only games so far to really take advantage of this. the online shop is also a lot better as it doesn’t require you to buy points before getting what you want and there’s a free web browser.
Wii: I can honestly say I haven’t played it much online but the times I have, it hasn’t really been anything special. The shop is alright and the idea of having weather and news channels is good plus it has a web browser if you’re willing to spend 500 wii points
