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PS3 - 360 - or Revolution which are you getting???

fastphil said:
Really difficult to predict anything accurately. Look at the Beta tape, better than VHS but died out. Same with the Mini-disc. Having the most radical new features doesnt garauntee you sales =\
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You're contrasting a media format with a game peripheral. There is no comparison. It's more conviluted than saying the iPod shouldn't do well because most people don't own Apple computers. True, new types of gameplay don't always do well in the market, especially if they are under-developed and discounted like the gamecube-GBA link cable.
Hopefully with time and developer support, the revolution and it's controller will provide a fun and immersive new way for gamers and non-gamers alike to enjoy video games.

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well i think nintendo is doin something right this time. THe revoltion controller is very interestin and innovative which is a good and bad thing since we have seen nintendo bomb on their ideas. ie. virtual boy. What i think Nintendo is doin right this time is makin the revolution look appealing to be honest even thoough we've only seen the first round of mock-ups prototypes for the revolution and its controller (a remote who doesnt love their remote)I have to admit its the most appealin nintendo system of all. Not only does it shed its toy-image which isnt a bad thing since nintendo makes billions off of its "kiddy games" and systems. But not only is Nintendo doin the right thing by makin such an innovative system Nintendo is smart enuff not to completely isolate the gamers of now. With the game peripheral they made like the separate analog joystick that can connect to the not to mention they have one where u connect it to a gamecube-esque device to give the look of a reg. controller. SO that way games of today can still be played and developers wont have to be hesitant to develop a game for the system.

In this next generation Im pretty sure regardless fo price point ps3 will come out on top cuz the public associates gaming consoles w/ sony's product and thats goin to be hard to top since sony has established their dominance in this business for a good 8+ yrs now. Xbox 360 I think will do well pendin when they release their 360 Sony doesnt screw them over by droppin the ps2 down to 99 bucks durin the crucial holiday season to counter the hype around xbox 360 like what happened to dreamcast way back. I hate to put history in here but as we all know history tends to repeat itself in one way or another.
Sadly I dont think Gamecube will do any good this holiday season w/ no smash hits and no incentive for ppl to buy a gamecube Nintendo will just have to ride their success w/ the DS and maybe the Micro which btw has jus come out :biggrin:

As for me Ill wait on the revolution and continue to play my gamecube (can't wait for zelda) and ps2.
 
i could just imagine walking into a room with a buncha people playing SSB and all you see is a bunch of people slashing their controllers at the TV =/

not a good idea
 
Weedler said:
You're contrasting a media format with a game peripheral. There is no comparison. It's more conviluted than saying the iPod shouldn't do well because most people don't own Apple computers. True, new types of gameplay don't always do well in the market, especially if they are under-developed and discounted like the gamecube-GBA link cable.
Hopefully with time and developer support, the revolution and it's controller will provide a fun and immersive new way for gamers and non-gamers alike to enjoy video games.

--Weedler
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I was just using that as an example to a similar time when people were comparing different formats for the same thing, i was NOT directly comparing the two. I was merely pointing out how historically people are quick to hype a product by its neat new features only to watch it fail in the market to another similar item with less features or technology
 
Prime said:
PS2/Xbox just don't try new ideas like Nintendo does.
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that's why didn't the gamecube have dvd or cd capabilities?? what about online play?? sounds like they really pushed the envelope there...

Prime said:
With the revolution controller, it's just going to blow the other systems out of the water creativity wise.
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so a controller is going to single-handedly blow the other consoles out of the water?? then why do i have to buy add-ons for it?? also, this could be a serious problem for nintendo if they want to attract some of those high-selling multi-platform games, because nintendo's user interface (aka - controller) is so different from those of xbox and playstation...
 
Well, Nintendo has never really relied on 3rd party support. Look at the top games for their 2 most recent hardware releases. Pretty much all of the top games on both of those systems are 1st party games, with the exception of the Madden series, which sells well no matter what platform it's on.

About the controller, I'm not sure what to think about it, at least until we know what the Revolution will be packaged with. If its packaged with 1 Controller and 1 shell, then it's not really an "add-on" more than it is a multi-function controller. If not, then I'd like to know what the Nintendo execs are thinking with this...

BTW, up until this point, Nintendo is 2/3 with innovative ideas (N64 controller and DS good, Virtual Boy bad). I'd love to see some titles for the Revolution released so that we can know what they're planning with this system, but I think that it's not supposed to be competition for Sony and Microsoft, but something completely different. I'm witholding judgement until more info is released.
 
I'm pretty sure I'll buy Xbox 360, xbox & games was great!

XBOX had nothing special, it is true that Halo is what made XBOX, other than that it had no real exclusives, it had PC ports and PS2 ports with better graphics, sorry i'll pass.
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I would say having the great games (ports) from other consoles is nice, but hey, that's just me.
And to my knowledge the Xbox has the most variety of exclusive games. (other than the cube with all nintendo made exclusives)
 
Microsoft reveals game lineup for Xbox 360

Updated: 6:11 p.m. ET Oct. 4, 2005
LOS ANGELES - Microsoft Corp. Tuesday unveiled a partial roster of video games for the launch of its new Xbox 360 game console next month.

Microsoft confirmed that exclusive Xbox 360 titles available for the holiday season will include the action-adventure game "Kameo: Elements of Power" and the much-anticipated shooting game "Perfect Dark Zero," both from Microsoft-owned Rare. (MSNBC is a Microsoft-NBC joint venture.)

"Project Gotham Racing 3" from independent game studio Blizzard Creations also should be available in time for Christmas, Microsoft said at a press event in Amsterdam.

Electronic Arts Inc., the world's biggest video game publisher, earlier this month said it will have five titles ready for the Xbox 360 launch. Those titles are "Need for Speed Most Wanted," "FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup," "NBA Live 06," "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06" and "Madden NFL 06."

Microsoft said it will announce more launch titles in the coming weeks.

The Xbox 360, Microsoft's next-generation gaming machine, will be released in the United States and Canada on Nov. 22. The standard version of the console will sell for $300, while a package with extras, including a hard drive that lets users play some games for the original Xbox, will be $400.

Analysts, who expect Microsoft to ship about 2 million Xbox 360s this year, have been closely watching the lineup of games for the console because cutting-edge games help drive console sales by the hard-core gamers who are first to buy new machines.

Microsoft, the second-largest maker of video game consoles, expects 15 to 20 games on the market for the Xbox 360 launch. Just over a half dozen games were available when the original Xbox hit the market in 2001.

The company said its 2006 Xbox 360 game lineup will include "Crackdown" from Real Time Worlds, whose team includes developers involved in the creation of the blockbuster "Grand Theft Auto" franchise. Other expected 2006 titles include Epic Games Inc.'s "Gears of War," Silicon Knights' "Too Human" and "Mass Effect" from BioWare Corp.

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.
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Pulled this off MSNBC today. Thought it would be appropriate to post here
 
not too bad of a starting lineup, really. you get a taste of next-gen sports, racing, and shooting (don't know what genre that kameo game is). not that i'm going to buy it or anything.
 
Captain Chronic said:
that's why didn't the gamecube have dvd or cd capabilities?? what about online play?? sounds like they really pushed the envelope there...

We are not talking about the gamecube. We are talking about the revolution.

so a controller is going to single-handedly blow the other consoles out of the water?? then why do i have to buy add-ons for it?? also, this could be a serious problem for nintendo if they want to attract some of those high-selling multi-platform games, because nintendo's user interface (aka - controller) is so different from those of xbox and playstation...

You don't have to buy add-ons. All we know right now is that what comes with the Revolution will be able to play all games. I am sure some games will come out that *might* require an add-on support, but nothing anymore than that. Like I said, nobody knows anything about the add-on feature, as in how many add-ons will there be and will you be able to play the games without the add-ons.

And I am sure the controller will deter some developers, but for the ones that are interested in taking the game to a new level, they will stay on, and hopefully they make some good games. You wouldn't be able to find a better Resident Evil game if they came out with one on the Revolution using the controller.
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Prime said:
We are not talking about the gamecube. We are talking about the revolution.
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sorry... i thought you said nintendo was innovative, and i was just pointing out their lack of innovation in the past. they were last to adopt a disc format over a cartridge... :tongue:

sorry for being such an annoying person...
 
TheCrossFormatKid said:
'Yeah, PS3 will probably have the largest game library of the next gen consoles'

Couldnt be more incorrect. The revolution has nintendo's ENIRE VIDEOGAME CATALOGUE for download(minus the gcn games, but those can be played via disc) on it. That is obv the largest game library.
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Actually, that numbers only about 600, because so far the only confirmed downloadable titles are the first-party ones. The original Playstation and the Playstation 2 both exceeded 600 games.

On the original topic, I don't like any of them. Every 360 game has looked like a good xbox game, every ps3 game looks completely prerendered, and I cannot stand the revolution controller. It all looks like stuff that could have been done in the current-gen consoles.

EDIT: To whoever who said that what comes with the revolution will be able to play all of the games, then what the heck is the point of the morbid controller?
 
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i will go with the xbox 360 no matter with the price i had a bad experience with ps it never worked when i bought it brane new from the store.
 
On the original topic, I don't like any of them. Every 360 game has looked like a good xbox game, every ps3 game looks completely prerendered, and I cannot stand the revolution controller.
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Way to be completely superficial.
 
ZAKtheGeek said:
Way to be completely superficial.
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This is supposed to be a new generation. Every generation is supposed to hit a new peak in graphics. It's not a matter of superficial, it's a matter of I'm-not-putting-down-$400(Canadian)-to-play-a-game-that-would-work-fine-on-my-current-console.
 
I'm fairly certain that none of your "current consoles" are able to sense the position of their controller inside of a three dimensional space.
 
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ZAKtheGeek said:
I'm fairly certain that none of your "current consoles" are able to sense the position of their controller inside of a three dimensional space.
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i'm sorry, but using a controller as one of the primary arguments for a console (or against it) is a little absurd. gaming is about the games, which none of us have played yet, so until we get some software to support the hardware we are all championing, it is a little pointless to quabble over which one is best.
 
Fine. The GAMES will be controlled with movements in 3d space.

See? It has everything to do with games. Unlike a stunningly pointless array of media features.
 
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