The Console War.... Has Been Won?

[Keith Justice]

Inspired by a thread over in another geek community.


I posted this:

YEESSSE!!! This one's for you, Dreamcast!!!

Ride's off into the sunset.....

But anyway... M$$$ did a lot right this cycle and didn't let up. Only thing they got wrong was hardware that worked, but they made the 360 experience such a accessible and fun thing to want to be a part of, that even if the system died, you didn't want to be without it.

Playing with friends, accessible price, wide range of damn quality games and developer friendly. On top of that, just lost of sense of community, embracing and helping fan communities...

And as time rolls on, I do feel Blu-Ray will become increasingly more irrelevant as digital media takes more and more of a foothold. With how I stream stuff to my 360 lately, the idea of buying physical media is swiftly becoming more and more obsolete. The first time I fired up the Netflix streaming... I felt it.

Hats off for Microsoft this round. They went and made a checklist of everything I need in a game console and they effin' did it. Only thing my console is missing is Heavy Rain, Valkyria Chronicles and White Knight Story.

And even those would end up in a backlog of games I hardly find time to play.

Feels good to be on the "winning" side for once. Haven't since my Genesis. Backed the Dreamcast, then the GameCube, and I wouldn't say I "backed" Xbox or PS2... then the 360 came along and Mass Effect and the rest.. has been history.

Good times. :jam:

All this ir prompted by Gears 2 curbstomping the competition as well as Fable II doing unexpectedly quite remarkable.

That and the massive raping MS handed Sony, more than doubling their sales in November.

 

[Ragna "D" BloodEdge]

No surprise here. Props to MS for making the 360 so accessible to the consumer.

 

[VengeanceGOD]

Good for Microsoft, but the Wii is still outselling them. Once developers actually get on board with it, the war will start all over again.

 

[Keith Justice]

The Wii is untouchable and for what it is... it's almost something else entirely. So, for me the only fight worth watching now is 360 versus the once unstoppable Playstation brand.

 

[unmei]

It will be interesting to see the data come this time next year. Both Microsoft and Sony have been feeling the hurt of the economy, Microsoft having to shut down some in house studios, Sony through lower sales, which sis understandable as they're the most expensive unit on the market right now. Sony however does have a very promising selection of exclusive 'system sellers' coming out in 2009, including titles like God of War 3, Killzone 2, and Among Thieves (uncharted 2). Plus on the RPG side they'll have White Knight Chronicles and the fact that anyone not currently owning a system will be picking up a ps3 for FFXIII/XIII Versus.

The end sales for 1 year hardly mean that a console war is over. I love MS as much as the next guy but anyone saying that it's over is just a delusional fanboy.

 

[Rider of Abaddon]

Yeah. I supported the PlayStation for like...always. It had more games I liked for one. Mostly it was the only system that included Final Fantasy. (When i had the PlayStation anyway).

And when we moved we were trying to figure out which we wanted. I would REALLY like a PS3 one day...but right now? Yeah, it's way to expensive, there are hardly any games I want on it..and the ones that are out for PS3 are also out for the XBox. That and we could totally afford the 360. So we got one basically right after we moved. lol.

I still love the Wii of course, it has so many different games. I just think for the most part that I prefer the funny minigame type things on the Wii. Like WiiFit or WiiSports.

 

[NAND NOR]

People still play consoles? It feels weird to even hold a controller nowadays when playing Gamecube with my nephew.

The whole "console wars" thing is pretty dumb. The only game on PS3 I would want to play is MGS4. 360 has Dead Rising and Earth Defense Force. Wii ... I dunno, Mario Galaxy? Everything on console feels so much the same nowadays.

 

[Rider of Abaddon]

I used to hate the idea of playing on the computer. The only type of games I would ever play on PC were like...Baldur's Gate and Never Winter Nights. Then I tried Left4Dead and I honestly would rather play on the PC. It's just multiplayer is really difficult.

 

[Dark Kabuto]

I used to hate the idea of playing on the computer. The only type of games I would ever play on PC were like...Baldur's Gate and Never Winter Nights. Then I tried Left4Dead and I honestly would rather play on the PC. It's just multiplayer is really difficult.

Yeah, long choise your own adventure games like Oblivion, Mass Effect I would rather play on my PC.

And, after getting all three consoles, here's my run down:


Most Unique-Wii
Most Fun-(Can't beleive I'm saying this) 360
Middle man: PS3, wish it had more exclusives though.


Between the three, I use my 360 the most.

 

[unmei]

I'd say i split my time evenly between my ps3 and 360, I tend to use my 360 more during the week having casual gaming sessions or watching movies between whatever else I'm doing, and my PS3 more on weekends when I have long gaming sessions. For the most part my Wii is left gathering dust.