Marcus Flynn

PS3, XBox or Wii: Pros and Cons of Gaming Consoles

Well I agree wholeheartedly with what you’re saying, but in my eyes the whole situation smacks of disloyalty on Sony’s behalf! They are essentially using gamers as pawns in what is clearly far bigger agenda for the company as a whole! Regardless of whether the added cost is $40 or $400, I as a gamer would like to be given a choice in the matter! As I suggested earlier in the thread the perfect solution to this problem (at least from the perspective of a gamer) would have been for Sony to scrap blue-ray as standard in the machine and release an optional add-on later! As far as I am aware such a move would have allowed for a launch date similar to the Xbox360. However like I said earlier this would never happen as it isn’t financially as beneficial in the long term for Sony themselves!

However I was disappointed today to learn that all isn’t fine and dandy in the world of the Nintendo Wii either! All this talk about Nintendo meeting the supply and demand criteria in Europe appears to have been a load of baz. I pre-ordered one this afternoon before being told I wouldn’t get my hands on it until February! Here was me looking forward to some Wii Sports on Christmas morning! It looks like there’ll be no Christmas in the Flynn family this year!

I don’t know whether you read the review of “Resistance: Fall of man” on channel 4 teletext today but from what they are insinuating it isn’t all it’s been hyped up to be! Given that it is the only genuinely anticipated launch title it’s not an ideal situation by any stretch of the imagination. Of course that’s only one review but I generally agree with what they say myself. “Zelda: Twighlight Princess” on the other hand has got rave reviews all over the net! That said you can’t trust a lot of internet reviewers who seem to have their final verdict set in stone before even playing the game! That aside however the Wii line seems similar to the PS3’s in that it’s fairly weak!