I like what Ush and SaTs had to say. I still don't see how the PS3 is consider "interesting" in a video game sense of the word. Hyped...yes! That I do agree the console have and continue to be the target of the media. Aside from that...the PS3 is nothing more than popularity. This is where I think IGN is making the judgment. It's more about popularity than actual fun factor. Which as we all know video games are about fun.
Originally posted by Ricodrayz
They are comparing the console not games. Ign had a bash the PS3 article every day lol. You can't say the have a Sony fetish.
You don't understand. The console, by itself, is pointless. You consider a console based on the overall experience of playing it.
Therefore a competition between consoles has to involve the features and games of each. The features of the PS3 could not be considered "more interesting" than the features of the Wii.
Originally posted by General KalieroOk lol. *Touches Wii's leg*
You don't understand. The console, by itself, is pointless. You consider a console based on the overall experience of playing it.Therefore a competition between consoles has to involve the features and games of each. The features of the PS3 could not be considered "more interesting" than the features of the Wii.
If anything, they are about as interesting as each other, my gf has better features 😛 Shes way more "interesting", oh wait, I can't say that, its biased!
No, but seriously, I think its best to just leave the PS3 with its IGN award, it needs a little upping now and then with all the "worst launch", "Most uninteresting", "Shambles", "Technical bust", "Most dissopointing", "Inferior to 360 gfx", "Getting thrashed by Wii" awards it has been getting recently, jeez, let it have one thing positive to have already, lol.
Actually, the PS3 is the most interesting console, interesting as to how Sony plans to get its foot out of the quicksand without falling fully in, and intersting as to how they got its foot stuck in there in the first place, interesting as to whether the price will remain that high, interesting as to whether the games will ever be as graphically superior as we hope to think.
So yeah, it does have high interest, and seeing as it is the most talked about console at the moment, both negative and positive (which in a way is free advertising to a certain degree because this is about as big as hurricane Kitrina) yes, I agree with IGN for once, it is the most interesting.
Originally posted by Pulse2
If anything, they are about as interesting as each other, my gf has better features 😛 Shes way more "interesting", oh wait, I can't say that, its biased!No, but seriously, I think its best to just leave the PS3 with its IGN award, it needs a little upping now and then with all the "worst launch", "Most uninteresting", "Shambles", "Technical bust", "Most dissopointing", "Inferior to 360 gfx", "Getting thrashed by Wii" awards it has been getting recently, jeez, let it have one thing positive to have already, lol.
Actually, the PS3 is the most interesting console, interesting as to how Sony plans to get its foot out of the quicksand without falling fully in, and intersting as to how they got its foot stuck in there in the first place, interesting as to whether the price will remain that high, interesting as to whether the games will ever be as graphically superior as we hope to think.
So yeah, it does have high interest, and seeing as it is the most talked about console at the moment, both negative and positive (which in a way is free advertising to a certain degree because this is about as big as hurricane Kitrina) yes, I agree with IGN for once, it is the most interesting.
This isn't how they meant it though. They meant "interesting" in terms of the console itself, not the events surrounding the console. And I completely disagree with IGN, the PS3 isn't the most interesting console, its probably the least interesting console. All it is is a PS2 with better graphics, crappy trigger buttons and an "I wanna be a Wii" motion sensor on the controller... which, BTW doesn't even have a rumble feature which is an industry standard now. The Wii is BY FAR the most intrinsically "interesting" console, I mean most people who can form intelligent thought could tell the Wii is more "interesting" then the PS3 by simply looking at it. This doesn't mean the Wii is better of course (though right now it arguably is) both have disadvantages and advantages. The problem that the PS3 is facing at the moment is that its not even comparable to an Xbox360 in terms of content, graphics, and games (and online capabilities). People are going "WTF? Why would I pay $700 to buy a system that isn't noticeably (and in most ways inferior) graphically, has worse online play, has no games, and in no way is any different then an Xbox360, which is far cheaper?". Basically, at the moment, the Xbox is giving you WAY more stuff for less money then the PS3 is, and thats whats killing it. That being said though the PS3 is still a "newborn" on the console scene and hasn't had time to mature into a good system yet, which I have no doubt that it will in about a years time, but right now its nothing but a more expensive 360 that isn't even as good as the 360.
Anomaly's post made me realize something. The PS3 is currently what the PS2 would have been without the 3rd party support it has. No FF, no MGS, no Dragon Quest, no KH. Since it doesn't have any of the superb 3rd party support as of yet, the truth about both the PS3 and PS2 is revealed: without support from the biggest game designers, it just isn't worth the money.
But isn't anything better then relying on a gaming mascot to save you each time, Nintendo makes its own games, as well as Microsoft, although it hasn't really done much for its own console and relyied more on Bungie. I realise Sony has relied on its third party support and I think it plans to make changes about this, but we can only wait and see how this develops, Sony will be forced to make its own games, both to proove to us it is worth the money and to demonstrate to third parties how it should be done, this is what I think they were aiming to do with the buying of Guerilla other then going head to head with Halo.
However, Sony has a strong key point, variety which sold the PS2, if they get sucked into this hardcore gamers point of view, they'll find themselves in deep crap, the reason PS2 was a sucess is because it had games to appeal to everyone, so far the PS3 is lacking that, if it can cover all areas of gaming from sports to FPS, plus have the graphical potential Sony boasted it would have, no doubt it will sell, but for now, its far from that, its not taking its own path, too busy trying to compete with Microsoft when Microsoft should be the least of thier concern if people loose interest in the Playstation brand. They should have done a Wii, do what they needed to do and avoid competing with 360 head on as then it diffreciates the consoles and would give people more reason to pick up a PS3.
Micro set a trap, and Sony is stupidly falling into it.
Originally posted by K73SKStole? The PS3 scrapped that idea, they don't have it at all, btw, if any of you may have noticed, as for the he stole, she stole thing, I'm kind of sceptical, we never really saw the first PS3 controller (which I actually liked and everyone called it a boomerang, but yet its better then having the old PS2 controller back again) in action, so we can't say it didn't plan to have motion sensing in the first place, and as for the button in the middle, if you haven't noticed, the first prototype PS3 controller, yes the boomerang also has a button in the middle 😕
i heard the ps3 stole the ideas of achievements from the xbox360.. true?
We can't really point fingers as we never got to see the first prototype in action, before it could be shown at E3, it was changed, we only saw pics of it, but we knew about Wii motion and 360 because they had be preveiwed fully first. I'm not saying what you're saying is wrong, I'm just not agreeing with you either, we had no idea of what the original PS3 controller could do, we only saw pics of it, pics mean nothing.
Originally posted by BackFireWell we knew about the interface, but the controller we had no real proof of, we just assumed that Sony copied Nintendo after they went back and remade the controller but had any of you stopped to realise the boomerang which had een previewed for as long as both 360 controller and Wii controller had no wires, and was rather small, could this mean that it already had motion sensing? Or was it just wireless, utill we have proof that Sony during the redesign added motion on, I think this will remain an unsolved mystery.
They stole other things, like the online interface from Microsoft which is supposed to be piss poor in comparison, and the motion sensor controller from Nintendo.
Sony Playstation 3 is the console of the year? Well that's just from IGN.com and really they wouldn't know interesting if it hit them. Really, they threw in that piece of crap motion sensors which hurts your wrist after half an hour of playing. Their launched sucked, they had no great games to back them up. They had Resistance: Fall of Man which is an okay FPS. Nothing special about it. Okay sure the online can go up to 40 on 40 but no one ever has any headphones.
You know how boring an online game is when you can't talk to anyone because they don't have headphones? You might as well play single player mode.
As for online, you get what you pay for. Sony's online cost nothing so you get nothing. Xbox-Live is easily the better online experience then Sony has. You can't even see if any of your friends are on unless you two are just so happening to be playing the same game. Which in this case isn't too hard until PS3 can get some actual games out.
The fact is Sony promised us Toy Story graphics and so far even though the PS3 has just come out the 360 easily has games with better graphics. Now I know the 360 has been out for a year and so has had a head start but games coming out for the PS3 doesn't look any better. Final Fantasy XIII's CGI cutscenes looks as good as Final Fantasy XII's. Really it will take FAR TOO LONG for any great looking games to come out on the PS3 to put forth it's potiental.
But then again graphics aren't everything. Don't believe look at the Dreamcast and compare it to the Playstation2. The Dreamcast was twice as powerful as the PS2 but who won? Speaking of Dreamcast, DC is getting a new game coming out next year. They're still making DC games? Who knew?
Really Mircosoft is happy with its second position in the console wars but Sony seems to have ended its reign as number one. The PS2 (since the PS3 came out) has been doing better then the PS3. So basically the PS2 is hurting the PS3. The PS2 are getting great games which makes people wait to get the PS3. Basically it's:
Waste $600 on the PS3 and get no games (or good games) or keep my PS2 and buy some great games? Really no contest there.
360 has had a year to make itself known and with games like Halo 3, Blue Dragon, and Lost World the PS3 won't have an easy fight considering the 360 is cheaper to get.
Not to mention the Nintendo Wii which is really a fun little system with great games coming out like Super Smash Bros Brawl, Super Mario Galaxy, Sonic and the Secret Rings, and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
Sony has tried to take the handheld market but they failed to take it from Nintendo. And the PSP was vastly superior then the DS when it came to graphics and hardware. But the DS won that fight and the Wii can win this one too.
Originally posted by Pulse2
Well we knew about the interface, but the controller we had no real proof of, we just assumed that Sony copied Nintendo after they went back and remade the controller but had any of you stopped to realise the boomerang which had een previewed for as long as both 360 controller and Wii controller had no wires, and was rather small, could this mean that it already had motion sensing? Or was it just wireless, utill we have proof that Sony during the redesign added motion on, I think this will remain an unsolved mystery.
The fact that Sony's motion sensing aspect isn't used by most games, and is shoehorned into others supports that it was merely an afterthought, something they saw Nintendo doing, and doing well, and decided to throw it in so they could have another bullet point on the back of the PS3 box.