Like Godspeed said, Wii has Zelda. And why pay 600 for a game console? I bought a Wii and love it. Having tons of friends over and playin golf, boxing. My girlfriend makes fun of me when I play though and people look pretty dumb when they're swingin that controller like a club. Much better than any system I've ever owned though. Have a 360 too and Wii is ten times better. Will only use 360 for live.
For a sailor underway, PSP is the best option due to having multiple features such as gaming, pictures, music, videos (through the mem stick or UMD), internet connectivity (take it with you on liberty and log-on), and other functionality (porting old arcade games, Nintendo and Sega games, etc). As for the question at hand, I would say the XBox 360 would be my choice for a couple reasons: 1) Costs less than PS3 with basically the same graphics (at the moment). 2) Games are more prevelant and many games are the same used on computers (Oblivion, Knights of the Old Republic, etc). 3) Windows Vista will have connectivity to XBox Live, so it has the best cross platform capability (more friends to frag and chat with).
But you could see that as a ding against XBox. Why get something on the XBox when you can run it MUCH better on a PC? And pretty much everyone has to own a PC anyway...and then you get PC exclusives.
Speaking of having X box on the boat. How to pilots especially, or anyone for the matter, get all their **** on the boat. I hear about how all of you guys have lawn chairs, x boxes, ect... Since you fly to the carrier, do you just drop your stuff off somewhere and they throw it all in your room? Is there a limit on how much you can bring?
Some people enjoy using a console, but the best part of this relationship is the cross functionality it will have and could have. In addition, $300 is cheaper than a really good gaming computer. As a ding on the PS3, if I'm going to spend $600 for a game machine, I'd much rather get a computer than a console.
I admit I enjoy Halo, but I personally will go with the PS3 for my extensive PS2 library, as well as titles like Metal Gear Solid 4, Gran Turismo HD, Ace Combat, SOCOM, Final Fantasy, and others which won't make it on 360. Grand Theft Auto games used to be PS2 only for the first year, but 4 will be a non issue though as it's coming out for 360 at the same time.
You didn't read what I wrote. How dare you! Unfortunately, for you and many other PS2 fans, PS3 is currently NOT backwards compatible. If Sony doesn't fix this, I believe it will be the death of Playstation.
I don't know where you are getting your info from, but they have said from the start that PS3 is backwards compatible with PSX and PS2 games. They have had some initial glitches in the Japan release, and IGN.com reported some glitches but they expect to fix them with a firmware update. source: http://ps3.ign.com/articles/745/745439p1.html
Hmm, interesting. I can't remember where I read it, maybe Penny Arcade, not sure. I just remember the big deal being severe problems with PS3 backwards compatibility. I read this a few days ago. I'll look again, could be wrong (hope I am for Sony's sake).
I thought I had read IGN.com saying something about having few issues, but I can't find the article, so I may be wrong about that. In retrospect, it may have been an article about how well the initial release games work with 1080p. Anyway, Sony also has a site regarding bw compatibility here: http://www.us.playstation.com/Support/CompatibleStatus
Originally Posted by mules83 one has halo...and the other doesn't. plain and simple gears of war is the new game of choice Halo 3 is still to come......Halo and Halo 2 were great and I'll get the 360 for the third. The Wii is awesome too! Love the controls!
Myth: The PS3 is leaps and bounds ahead of the 360 http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-348-1.htm
that article is subjective, one mans opinion. no shіt XBox online and amount of games available for the XBox360 will be better than PS3, it's been out a year longer ... and hell, i could easily write an article and fill it full of "Without getting into too many details" and "I can’t get into details" bullshіt. no doubt it wouldn't be too hard to find articles that lean towards PS3 being the next best thing to indoor shіtters. there's fanbois on both sides. anyways, $599 is a step price to pay for a PS3, hard to justify, but in order to play HD-DVDs on XBox 360, you have to pay an extra 200 bucks, so essentially you're still paying nearly 600 bucks for the XBox if you want the gouche gear. the PS3 Blueray supports up to 1080p while XBox360 HD-DVD supports up to 1080i ... not much of a difference unless you are watching a big-screen HDTV inside of 7 or 8 feet. i haven't owned a gaming console since playstation 1, but i'm in the market. i'm leaning towards XBox360 & the HD-DVD add-on, but i can't stand giving anymore money to Bill Gates, so i'm torn ... my 2¢'s
Meh. I don't give a **** about the HD DVD player, so I'm going with the XBox because it doesn't force me to pay for something I don't want.
Well I'm not getting either system myself. I may get a Wii for a cheap thrill, but I'm investing my money on a powerful gaming PC.
You mean blowing your money. That's not an investment Speaking of, I need to get myself a new video card.
Let's not get into video cards and/or building computers. That's a LONG conversation during which I actually might know what I'm talking about.
But that gaming rig won't be too easy to tote around on deployment! That's why PS and XBOX/2 have been so popular (with military personnel), it doesn't hit too hard into what you can reasonably take with you underway/on deployment/det. From friends that went to other communities (subs/swo) and of course the tacair/helo bubbas that go to the boat, they all get pretty creative in setting up shipboard lans for competing on xbox. I was pretty blown away to hear that there were some serious prizes onboard KHK for xbox HALO winners. Now, I just need to decide what type of laptop to get to replace my ancient Inspiron 8200... already have the Xbox 360!
I'm slowly beginning to hate console gaming and the beast it has become. On the other hand, I've grown to like PC gaming. My DS will carry me through deployment. For now, I have 17 months of college left and I need a serious workstation. I haven't bought a new PC in almost 10 years and the PC I have now isn't worth investing anymore money into. Plus, I'm not a fan of laptops at all. With my "spare no expense" PC budget, what I have picked out makes the PS3 look dated.
This is a good point. At least with a PC, you can customize what you want based on your needs. That is also why I like building my own PC. I can spend about 50-75% of the money it would take to buy an equivalent system and put in the graphics card that I want and processor I want instead of maybe the 2-3 choices I get to pick between on the manufacturer's website...like dell and gateway etc. This also allows me more leeway when picking specific setups that I like such as AMD instead of Intel, GEforce instead of Radeon, SATA instead of regular old IDE etc etc ad infinitum although nowadays there is a caveat. Nowadays gaming systems are far surpassing PC's gaming abilities very quickly with dual processors gigs and gigs of RAM and onboard cards.
If you buy a laptop, get a Macbook. I wouldn't own a PC at all if it weren't for the lack of games on Mac.
While you can build a more powerful computer, the fact of the matter is, a console game will be consistent. It will work, and it will look like it was designed to look. This is not the case with PC games. Run it on something not up to the highest specs, and you lose graphical capabilities, speed, etc etc.
