This article was brought to my attention last night and I just couldn't suffer reading through it without gagging. There is so much blatant propaganda in here that we just had to give our two cents. We're not defending the PS3 here, we're just trying to force the writer of this article to report with truth and stop making completely false claims. We're not denying that Halo 3 will rocket 360 sales -- it's true. MGS and FFXIII will rocket PS3 sales, too. But there are some things that need knocked down. Hit the continued link for our rebuttal.Both Shadowrun and Halo 3 are "game changers".
- What? Halo 3, as the author wrote, isn't "the first massive multi-player on-line game for the console" -- in fact, it isn't even an MMO. 16 player versus matches is in no way equivalent to hundreds or thousands of players on a single server. It's not the first MMO anyway -- Phantasy Star Universe came before it. And online versus matches? Those are everywhere.
- Shadowrun is not the "first to connect PC gamers and console gamers together for online play". Ever hear of Final Fantasy XI for the PS2? How about Phantasy Star Universe for the PS2? If you don't know what you're talking about, keep your fingers off of the keyboard.
Voice chat on the 360 is a big advantage.
- Granted, getting a team on TeamSpeak on the computer is pretty tough to do, but voice chat isn't new at all -- nor unique to the 360 anymore. The PS3 does, in fact, support voice chat. I don't have a bluetooth headset, but I've heard people talking on Resistance and Motorstorm pretty much every time I play.
If these games take off, Sony is in trouble
- We'll first use a big quote from this guy, then dissect its untruth: "They don't even do multi-player that well yet, MMOGs are well out of their reach and they have effectively blocked every attempt their PC unit has made to work with their game platform. This creates the very real possibility that Sony PC users will be more likely to choose an Xbox 360 over Playstation 3 if they want to experience cross-platform play."
- So, 40-player online matches in Resistance isn't that well? The great online Motorstorm races isn't that great?
- MMO's are out of Sony's reach? Did you forget about Final Fantasy XI and Phantasy Star Universe again? They also have cross-platform play and if we remember correctly, the 360 version of at least PSU actually does not allow play with PS2 or PC users. Yeah, that's definitely looking forward. Stop blatantly lying.
We're not saying that "Sony did it first", because that's not the point. We're not saying Shadowrun and Halo 3 won't be fantastic games -- they probably will be. But what we are saying is that if you're going to write a fluff-piece like that, at least wear a Microsoft hat in your picture, because you look like a fool.
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