Also- “That is soooo Playstation 3″
So the PS3 is now cheaper (or will be in the next week or so). Yes Sony have been a bunch of dicks this generation and behind the ball on pricing and PSN. But a great library of games. Maybe not killer but still great. If you don’t already have a PS3 think about this:
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
Metal Gear Solid 4
Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction.
Little Big Planet
Free PSN
Excellent Blu Ray player
easy to upgrade standard laptop hard drives
as well as the upcoming: R&C:A Crack in Time, Uncharted 2, God of War III and Heavy Rain (oh and FFXIII and GT5 for those that care)
Don’t think about:
Haze
Lair
Killzone 2
Resistance 2
Motorstorm
Heavenly Sword
multi hour patch and firmware downloads
still expensive
ugly matte finish
Sixaxis
no goddamn Backwards compatibility with PS2 apart from Singstar.
In short you should buy a PS3 if you don’t have already one. If you do have one, FFS- don’t sell it to buy the slim.
August 20th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
The Xbox 360/Playstation 3 rivalry reminds me very much of the Super Nintendo/Mega Drive days.
The SNES and 360 are generally believed by the gaming world (meaning nerds and magazines) to be the superior systems of their times, with many genre-defining, classic games and all the right innovations. The SNES brought six-button controllers, photorealistic graphics, Mode 7 and the Super FX chip. The 360 brought the Live Arcade, Achievements (though I don’t care about them, they have been widely imitated), and most importantly, Gears of War. Though the 360 red-rings, Microsoft took a bath on it and allowed free replacement, a service that Sony never even considered when their early PS1s and PS2s burnt out.
The MD and the PS3 have both made painful mistakes, like the MD’s myopic three-button controller, the Sega CD and 32X, the PS3′s expensive Blu-Ray drive, lack of vibration feedback, mandatory installations, and the elimination of backwards compatibility. Still, they are both worthwhile systems with excellent exclusives. Uncharted is a fun and challenging Gears clone, Little Big Planet is a terrific game creation tool (even though the community has turned into freakin’ YouTube), and Infamous is great if you ignore the story. I also appreciate that you don’t need to buy expensive accessories to use wireless networking or to charge the controllers.