If you have all 3 systems, I’d get rid of 360. To me 360 & PS3 are similar except PS3 seems more promising. wii on the other hand is a completely different system.

what mike said.  why not just pay cash for someone’s wii.  (and thanks to nintendo’s great choice in names, that sounds like something a gay john would do)

to late already done

buy a ps3 next weekend or this one depending on how much i make

also i didn’t get just the wii

i got in total for (only a NIB 40GB ps3 the gimped one)

the wii
super mario galaxy
extra wii mote
wii play
2GB SD card
1000 Wii Points
and a few VC games

The wii thus far has been a useless purchase.  If you are a hardcore Nintendo fan, it’s completely worth it though.

destrukshawn - 28 March 2008 07:17 AM

okay i’m about to go buy a ps3 to swap for a wii

if anyone disagrees with this move in the name of iistix (say keeping the ps3) speak now

I bought the wii as well, out of the two consoles, it is the lesser played. It does have some fun games though, but that requires actual real friends.

who has those anymore?

II stix - 28 March 2008 09:31 AM

If you have all 3 systems, I’d get rid of 360. To me 360 & PS3 are similar except PS3 seems more promising. wii on the other hand is a completely different system.

The problem here is that M$ keeps throwing money around to get certain exclusives...which are actually worth playing (e.g. Bioshock, Mass Effect).  So unfortunately, it can’t be abandoned, despite outstandingly poor design.

Xbox’s mission statement is to preserve the Windows monopoly and extend it into the living room, as a media extender for a Media Center PC, along with a host of other MS and other company’s hardware devices that fit into a digital entertainment lifestyle. MS has the bucks to keep losing money on Xbox for a long time, maybe forever.

I loved that line from that interview.

destrukshawn - 28 March 2008 09:37 AM

to late already done

buy a ps3 next weekend or this one depending on how much i make

you’re buying another ps3?

Wait for the MGS4 limited edition bundle.  The gun-metal finish is attractive…

honestly i felt it was worthless purchase as well but meh.  yeah i’ll get a ps3 when msg5 or whatever drops.  but the woman wants a wii and i like to get baked and play bowling and tennis

but rock band is more important than anything

Finally.

Well, here is the question.  Will MS start developing Blu-Ray games?

I have doubts that they will.  Thus not really capturing the full capabilities of a blu-ray player.

i think the majority of peeps buying the xbox blue ray player is for the cheaper alternative to getting a regular stand alone player.

Yeah, that’s the conundrum.  PS3 nut huggers will say, well that’s why you should have bought a PS3 in the first place and that MS were fool to align themselves with Toshiba and HD-DVD.  On the other hand, maybe if Sony made their SKU’s more affordable in the first place, more people would own PS3’s.

The question here is, will Sony be allowing the DL of the latest Blu-Ray firmware and software upgrades to the 360 Blu-Ray?  Its the upgrade ability which makes the PS3 such a flexible, systems and allows it to always be at the forefront of Blu-Ray technology.  The 2 updates that the PS3 has gotten has made the PS3 the best Blu-Ray player on the market, and made other prior stand alone Blu-Ray players obsolete, because the standalones cannot get the online updates.

Now, with Blu-Ray Live, or whatever the new internet capable Blu-Ray players are going to be called, I’m sure the issue of online system updates will be solved.

But will any of that extend to MS?  Also, the storage advantage of the dual layer Blu-Ray Disc, on which PS3 games are made and the standard DVD’s on which the XBox games are made are in question too.  Will the Blu Ray drive on the new XBox’s be capable of reading and executing game data?

The firmware is player specific.  Sony doesn’t have to allow xbox to dl their firmware.  The firmware is just an implementation of a standard.

It’s up to MS to update their firmware in a timely manner.

The other question isn’t whether or not MS will develop BR games.  It’s a question of whether the third party developers will.  That becomes an economics question, whether there are enough BR xboxes to justify releasing a game on BR (since it’ll sell less, since there are fewer players).  It might be possible for devs to release two versions, a DVD version and a BR version.  The latter might have higher quality textures or more levels, but again, you get into the economics of the cost of developing two versions.  My guess would be that it most likely won’t be worth it, but I’m sure someone will try.