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PlayStation 3 Review
- Platform:
- PlayStation 3
- Publisher:
- Sony
- Developer:
- Evolution Studios
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- Racing
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The Wii is geared more towards a "younger" gamer and the graphics are not as good as they are on the PS3 or Xbox360. To me the Wii is just a GameCube that went on a slim-fast diet. My kids play it alot but I only played it a few times.
The Xbox360 has a great selection of software titles, excellent Xbox-Live service (which you have to PAY for) and is right now the leader in the next-gen war with a 12 month head-start. (execpt in Japan where it is doing piss-poor. The PS3 already surpassed the Xbox-360 there with consoles sold) The few issues I do have with the Xbox360 is that it is not 100% backwards comp. with all its original Xbox titles and this machine ls very loud compared to the others. It sounds like a "jet engine".
Now for The Playstation 3.
I pre-ordered my PS3 and got it 2 weeks after launch. I have a few friends who are Xbox-360 fans and one thing they love to do is "bash" the Playstation 3. In fact most of the PS3 "bashing" posts on the internet are done by people who do not even own a PS3 and just have a Xbox360. For the good things now. The PS3 is so dam quiet compared to the Xbox360 at time you do not even know that it is on. It has slot loading like the Wii, not the stupid tray loading like the Xbox360 and its controller is about the 1/3 of the weight of that of the Xbox360. Yes we all know that the "rumble" feature is gone put once you play without it, you see how overrated that feature was anyways. All (100 %) of my personal PS2 games play on the PS3 without any issues since the firmware 1.51 update was released in early 2007. It has built in "WiFi" (unlike the Xbox360 where I had to pay $129.00 for a USB Xbox360 WiFi adapter) and a feature called "Remote Play" where I can use the PSP with the PS3!
Also another great feature of the PS3 is that is have FREE network play and services (unlike the Xbox360 where you have to pay to play). I have 3 accounts set up on the Playstation 3 (1 mine, 2 my kids) and this same service would cost me about $180.00/year through Xbox-Live. Yes this service is not as good as it is on the Xbox-360 but Sony is committed to making it just as good. They just need a little more time but they will do it. There is nothing on Xbox-Live that compares to playing on-line with 40 players on Resistance Fall of Man. This game blows any Xbox or Xbox360 First Person Shooter out of the water. This has to be the best game console FPS to date. Yes I do have Halo, Halo 2, Perfect Dark Zero and other FPS for the Xbox360 and none compare to this. This game has excellent reviews on the web and only Xbox fan-boys bash this great game cause they do not have a decent FPS to play yet on their Xbox360....they just wait for Halo 3.
The same games for the PS3 look only "slightly" better than they do for the Xbox360 but these are only the launch titles. With more software development kits updates being given to the game developers studios, we will only see better looking games coming for the PS3.
The PS3 does have a few issues that Sony is working on. The first is this "scaling issue" issue (ie 1080p -> 720p or 720p -> 1080i). A lot of posts appeared on the Internet (even one by a spokesman from Mircosoft!) stating that the PS3 does not have an internal scaler. With the latest release of the SDK, this scaler was exposed. For Sony not to expose this scaler to the games studios remains a mystery. The only reason I can think of is that they wanted to remove this chip later on a hardware revision (to cut cost) and see if they can do scaling through emulation (software). A few posts also appeared stating that PS3 runs hot. The PS3 does run hot but it run cooler that the Xbox360! There is site on the Internet that measures the "hot air" around the Xbox360 and the PS3 and the PS3's temperatures are cooler. The Xbox360 has issues of it running too hot causing the game to freeze. This has yet to happen on my Playstation 3 but has happen many a times on my Xbox360.
The Playstation 3 (60gig) is EXCELLENT value for the money. If you want to make the Xbox360 have the same features as the PS3 60gig version it will cost you a lot more (add a USB WiFi adapter ($100), upgrade your hard-drive to 60 gigs($$$$?), add a USB media card reader ($30) and that stupid HD-DVD drive($200))
You should always compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges, not apples to oranges.
I know I come out looking like a Sony fan-boy with that statment, but I just comparing the FACTS. I like both my Xbox360 and my PS3 and thats my opinion of them.
If I were to have just one?......the Playstation 3. Why? Cause it is the best of the 3 and will only get better.
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1. First/Seocnd-Party Devs, and Sony has quality one's in the droves. Insomniac, Polyphony, Zipper, Naughty Dog, all the Sony Studios, Guerilla, Factor 5, Ninja Theory. Ports are a waste of time, and a wash most of the time, but Sony having many proven devs on their side exclusively assure you a larger number of titles specifically taking advantage of the PS3 hardware than the 360 does itself as most 360 exclusives are cross developed on PC's anyways.
2. Reliability: The 360 is the most poorly built console ever, fact. There were issues with the PS2, PS1, Xbox, Saturn, etc, but not nearly as many issues as the 360 has, that MS has YET to resolve.
MS clearly threw reliability, hardware testing out the window at everyone's costs just to get out of the gate first. I have a 360, and I have experienced downtime as well, right before Gears came out, and I wasn't pleased. But MS doesn't care, and still doesn't. What good is a 1-year warranty on something that if it lasts that long to outlive it, that it may die the day after. It's incredibly faulty.
3. Ports can be better if someone puts effort into it. Beth did a great job with Oblivion, making it run better in framerate and in loading. While 360 will receive the "shader" update, it will not receive updates that will make it run as good as the PS3 version because it's built around the PS3's hardware. Others can be like this too.
4. Online play isn't worth $50/year, and not worth $250 over 5 years of console life. "You get what you pay for" does NOT work here. Resistance is by far and aways the new bar for online gaming. It's 40 players with more features than any 360 XBL game to date and virtually LAGLESS.
5. Potential. Yes, said many times before, and it's true. This console CAN last you years not only reliability wise, but also gaming wise. Sony built a long life into this unit with things such as Blu-Ray and Standard HDD for devs to take advantage of. Capacity is not an issue here. There's no boarders to reach with this. Uncompressed 7.1 PCM is in there for the ride as well when everyone can pick these up cheaply, and first hand since I own a system like this, sounds amazing. Oh, and it also plays Blu-Ray movies :)
Do not let the Microsoft Munchkins ward you off. Add to the price of a premium 360 XBL and a Play and Charge kit, and you're approaching PS3 prices. Add up XBL's cost over 5 years and you're AT or BEYOND PS3's prices. Want a bigger HDD? Just slap in any 2.5" SATA drive. Love your Bluetooth headset, sure, you can use that right away as well. Not bound by MS's money making schemes.
The great games are coming, and this SOON. The EU launch will have great games like Motorstorm, Resistance, VF5, F1, Oblivion and more like the GTHD demo which is the most amazing graphics seen yet on a console. Plus great stuff like Lair, Heavenly Sword, Killzone, MGS4, DMC4, Rachet and Clank, Uncharted, and MORE. I had to wait much longer for the good stuff to start to come out for the 360.
Plus, you have backwards compatibility of nearly ALL the PS1 and PS2 games you kept throughout the years and stuff like God of War 2 to enjoy as well. Not some messed up emulator that doesn't play nearly anything right from the prior system like on the 360. Plus Blu-Ray built in to enjoy the great new movies in HD like Bond. Play your MP3's from a player (I have a Sony Network walkman). Play vids from memsticks. Browse the web. Soon video Chat via Eye3.
Don't fall for the Munchkins slander.
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