Remember back in January when we asked you about your preferred console combo plan? We were operating under two assumptions then: that Nintendo's strategy involved being the second console of choice; and that the PS3 and Xbox 360 would be evenly priced. While we may have our worries about Sony's price, we almost forgot the impact this might have on Nintendo's diminutive Wii. While there's the Wii60 console combo, will PlayStation 3 owners pony up the extra cash for a Wii? With a finite amount of entertainment dollars going to next-gen consoles, it could be argued that every extra dollar spent on a PS3 is one less being spent on another console like the Wii. So, what's it gonna be ...













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So yes im in the wii60 club :P
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Some of my favorite games are on the Playstation (Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid especially) but it's not worth the cash. Maybe near the end of the generation when a PS3 can be had for $149 I'll go for it, but not until then.
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Yup, Wii for the family and for younger friends. Xbox360 for mainly me (as I don't like multiplayer over internet too much, lan parties, those are the thing for me) to play games like Oblivion and Halo3.
What does PS3 offer more, at the moment nothing. If things chance I might have all of the consoles, but why get a PS3 when I can play with the Xbox360 and use Wii when having friends or to play something with my wife.
Sorry Sony, it seems a no no this time.
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Lost odyssey,halo3,gears of war,gta4,mass
effect,resident evil5,fable2,blue
dragon,sonic,forza2,table tennis,lost planet,dead rising,rainbowsix and Tri-ace new rpg.
These are just some games that come into my head for the 360.
Im gonna buy a new pc this year,but im not into pc gaming so much,i like RTS on PC,but thats about it.
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Rainbow Six is not exclusive...
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I believe you have to be invited in order to get the Black Card...and you have to spend at least $250,000 on it a year to keep it.
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FF creator Sakaguchi will produce them,FF music composer nobuo will do the msuic for them,as he did with ff1-ff10.
AKira will work with Sakaguchi on Blue dragon,last time they worked together Chrono Trigger was created,how can you not be intrested in that game.
Also Christian lorenz who made art for FF9 and FF spirits within, and worked on movies like Matrix,day after tomorrow and fifth element will also do concept art for Lost odyssey.
So FF creator+Nobuo+Akira+Lorenz > Ownage.
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*Side Note: To Joystiq: another good poll would be "if you go to buy a PS3, and the $600 version is sold out, will you settle for the "core" version?
*Side Note 2: BluRay will go the way of the laser disc. An extinct technology only found in the homes of the foolish and the elite.
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For now: just a Wii for me.
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And no,its not exclusive,but some games should be played on PC,and some on console.
For ex shadowrun that will work on vista and 360 should be played on PC,while Alan wake that will also come on both should probably be played on console,adventure games suits better on console.
Pgr3,graw,kameo,and viva pinata is games people should get also.
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Yes im getting those also,but enough of me saying 360 games,its just annoying for others to read,but my point is,its a joke saying if you have a pc you dont need a 360,
Worse BS i read.
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Can that be tomorrow's poll?
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I bought a PSP some days ago so I'm no anti-Sony. But really. The PS3 price point and lack of enticing games have done it for me. Until the system drops below the price of the 360 Core I'm not even going to look at it. Maybe to spit at. Perhaps.
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I also dont understand the people that complain about the price of the 360 and ps3 when they have no problem dropping that kind of money on a new video card for there computer, just so they can have the highest framerate in the latest overated shooter.
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I remember them talking how overpriced and that a cnsole should not cost that much as the xbox360 premium did when it costed 34.000 yen.
Now ps3 core is gonna cost 58-64.000 yen.
YES,CORE,not premium,we dont know what stores in japan will take for premium,but here in europe they gonna charge you 100 euro more for it...
And in USA 100 dollar.
Gonna be very,very intresting to see those journalist at the press conference,and if they are bias or not.
Espcially since a huge majority of gamers in Japan think ps3 is way overpriced.
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Those games would have been nothing without the graphics, and power that helped make something like that. But now...I don't know how much more can you innovate with the same default control/interaction. Those games were created by very talented people and if those people developed with the Wii, something that innovative with the interface (agree or not) that could be something truly amazing...
P.S. The 360 isn't that bad...GO MAINSTREAM GAMING GO!!!
The Raikage
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Also three things: Bioshock, 360 and PC exclusive, right? But best on console for sure, and what about Fable 2 on PC? Aaaand, upgrading my PC would cost a boatload.
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Wow. So much better.
People list that the PS2 has better games.
NAME THEM. IT DOESN'T.
It just doesn't have as much utter garbage to muddy the waters.
So it's Wii for me, from lauch. I'm not getting rid of my GC games at all, and right now, I am buying all the Resident Evil games for it. Which is pretty cool, I think.
The only thing to sway me to a PS3, was last year, the thought of GTA4....But since that is coming to the 360, its 360 all the way.
And besides, really, you think MGS4 WON'T come to 360?
That's very cute of you.
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And winning eleven and Resident evil5 is also under dev for 360,so there you have it,your theory failed. :)
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I have the money and i will spend every penny in the PS3.
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Wii: 250$
360 + xbl: 450$
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total: 700$...
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Konami and Square-enix will fully support ps3,while whatever happends to 360 is left to be seen.
And btw my brother who is 23 will buy the ps3,even though it will cost him 800 dollar,but that lucky bastard can afford that with no problem cause he lives in a apartment with his GF,while i who study will never afford it in a long while.
Its one thing to lend money from your parents or friends to pay for a 360 premium for the cost of 480 dollar,but 800 for a ps3?
Ofc this is Swedish prices...
But what rich european countries shoukd expect.
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There was nothing Sony or PS3 developers showed at E3 that excited me as a gamer. Sony need to convince me that the PS3 is next gen hardware powering next gen games - because I'm sick of seeing graphical updates to existing over-the-hill franchises.
MGS4 looks great, but will it play any differently to 3, and can it even dare hope to surpass the glorious original? FFXIII - more of the same...
I'm happy with my Xbox360, and I think 06/07 will really see it hitting it's stride with a combination of new IP's and updates to existing franchises. Hopefully Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon can reinvigorate the lacklustre Japanese RPG genre.
For me the Nintendo Wii really excites me as a gamer, so I'll be getting a Wii on release, and a PS3 much much later; but only IF Sony can convince me that it's games are worth it and the PS3 is something more than a trojan horse to get Blu-Ray in to homes.
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Sony themselves only published a few that really interest me. The Ratchet and Clank series and God of War (and God of War can be replaced by a lot of things)
The expected PS2-style exclusives, which made the system so great, will more than likely go to the system which makes the most sense economically to them.
Getting down to brass tacks. Sony believes that this generation is a marathon. It's really a drag race. The system with the most market power come E3, will see the lion's share of the games, in both quanity and quality, released for it.
If the PS3 lags in sales against the Wii and the 360, expect a very bad E3 for Sony next year. Will it sell out the initial shipment? Sure. But how many will it sell before initial adopters run out? That's the question.
If it's less than 5 millions world-wide, Sony is in a heap of trouble.
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And if the graphics aren't that much better, and online is worse, well that'll settle it for me (even without the price-point).
However with it, the PS3 isn't even on my radar anymore. I'd been willing to give Sony the benefit of the doubt, but now I'm done for at least 2-3 years with the PS3.
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How can you possibly list Killzone as a system seller?
Have you played the first one, or just watched The CG videos from over a year ago?
The game is awful, and no amount of blu-ray or pizza, or bacon fat will fix shitass programmers.
MG will not reamin on the PS3.
Mark my words.
Even so, a game which (in every case) can be beaten in under 10 hours is not worth the 8000 dollars required to play it.
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Me, I'm gona preorder as many PS3`s as possible, with the profit that I make from selling the first on eBay, I'll buy another, then pocket the change. Then buy another and do the same.
Thanx Sony, you've just made me filthy, stinking rich!
I'm Rick james...
*insert sarcasm here*
For me the Wii will be my PRIMARY console. Then the 360 for Halo 3, gears of war and so on.
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I'm going for the 360/Wii combo, I already have a 360, and it's going way beyond what Microsoft said in terms of Live, which is totally great. I've been downloading new demos for weeks now, I keep having to delete old ones( which is my only real complaint, the Hard Drive, which also has BC errors for me), which of course makes me unhappy, but I'll probably just be suckered into getting one of the 60+ gigs that you absolutely know MS will release in a counter attack to the PS3 launch( along with a very probable price drop).
So Microsoft/team Xbox followed through on their word, and Nintendo often does as well, so I'm sticking with the guys that I can trust. Obviously though, I consider the Xbox team/group and Microsoft for home computers to be very, very different companies. :P
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Either way, he's NOT sticking with Sony exclusively. Take that into account with the GTA announcement and you'll realize that Sony is faltering. In ten years, we'll be comparing the BluRay decision to Nintendo's decision to stick with cartridges instead of finishing the Playstation with Sony.
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