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Who's next generation machine is going to win the console war?

Although the Wii appears to be the early favourite my money is on the PS3.

Opinions?
 
360 will win.

Too much of an advantage through the early release, despite it's limitations the momentum is with the 360, despite strong sales for the Wii.
 
If 360 sorts out the bugs, that should win by far. The Wii offers a different experience. One day i hope the PS3 will be known as "a cheap blu ray DVD player". I know why they have blu ray but it should not cost as much as it is. Games consoles are about happiness and fun...Instanly you are not happy with spending £424 on a games console with hardly any games that are any good.
 
I am not a gamer but it would seem to me 360 is more popular due to being out a year before PS3 and being relatively cheaper than playstation. Also This Halo 3 is it exclusive to 360? if so I have never seen so much hype for a game.
 
RooneyDevil8 said:
If 360 sorts out the bugs, that should win by far. The Wii offers a different experience. One day i hope the PS3 will be known as "a cheap blu ray DVD player". I know why they have blu ray but it should not cost as much as it is. Games consoles are about happiness and fun...Instanly you are not happy with spending £424 on a games console with hardly any games that are any good.
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:lol: Don't be so stupid. PS3 is one of the best purchases i've made, and Resistance: FOM and Warhawk are two of the best games i've played.
 
Wii has sold a load but mainly because its so much cheaper than the other new ones, makes it more attractive to parents.

At the moment I'd say the 360 is far better just for the amount and quality of games, no doubt the PS3 will start to catch up eventually, just don't see the point in buying one until it does.
 
BezsMaracas said:
Wii has sold a load but mainly because its so much cheaper than the other new ones, makes it more attractive to parents.

At the moment I'd say the 360 is far better just for the amount and quality of games, no doubt the PS3 will start to catch up eventually, just don't see the point in buying one until it does.
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The Wii is attractive to families as well, i.e. casual gamers. I don't think it's particularly cheap (well, not where I come from anyway), but parents probably see the opportunity for themselves, and not just their kids, to have fun with it, and that's a pretty big incentive for them to shell out the money.

As for the PS3, you have to ask if the average home has the setup (i.e. HDTV) to fully take advantage of its phenomenal hardware. Of course, we all know the software isn't here yet so it's no wonder not many are willing to budge.

The 360 is well known for having many hardware defects, which have kept many a potential customer away, and its hardcore fps-gamer image hasn't helped it much. In short, it's not been difficult to see why the Wii has been selling like hotcakes ever since its release.

Is the situation going to change? Possibly. I don't know to be sure.
 
[Hellboy]17 said:
You can't say that Wii is part of a new generation of machine !
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I don't think it matters to be honest. 'Next Gen' is only a marketing buzzword used to attract consumers to manufacturer's products, and Nintendo didn't even need to resort to that to sell their consoles. The Wii prints money, for God's sake.
 
RooneyDevil8 said:
Its crazy money for a games console. If people are paying £424, who knows how much the next one in a few year would be. £500+?
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I would have waited for a price drop, but instead paid £400 for a good deal including 2 games, an extra controller and HDMI cable from amazon.
 
I personally dont have neither xbox 360, ps3 neither wii, but atm it looks as if xbox would win the race.
 
duffer said:
I remember I paid £400 for mine.

For what they can do (online gaming, DVD players, Blu-Ray players) I don't think the current "generation" of consoles are that expensive.

£50 quid a pop for games is though.
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Exactly, and that's the point. My A500 cost 499 I think. Buy a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse for a PS3, stick Linux on it, and you've basically got a similar package for the same price as an A500 back in 1987/8. Prices don't shift that much for new high-end technology aimed at the home mass market.

I see the XB360 and PS3 situation in a similar way to the Atari ST and Amiga situation. The former came out first and was cheaper due to being mainly built with cheaper off the shelf parts. The latter was built from the ground up using new custom designed technologies. For the first two years of the Amiga's life, it was being outsold by the ST by quite some margin, and most Amiga games were straight ports from the ST, and as such ran worse due to it having a 7.14Mhz processor instead of an 8Mhz processor, its custom hardware was barely touched. There are obvious differences between how games are built nowadays though. Instead of having just 2 or 3 blokes, you can end up with a team of 100+. The costs of game development nowadays is getting out of hand. And at the end of the day, are the games themselves actually any better?
 
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they both have their fans who are entirely blinkered as to the limitations of their machines and the strenghts of the others

360
+Better Online Gameplay
+Multiplatform Games seem to run better
+MS willing to pay for exclusives
-Runs hotter than the sun
-Breaks if you blow on it
-DVD9 Limitations

PS3
+Hard Drive Standard on all of them
+Amazing Processing Power
+Blu Ray Player
-No Games
-Poor Online Mode
-Home (Who wants to live in a virtual house)

The only war is between the 14 year olds who want to get one up on their mates by saying their machine is the best.
 
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