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Help Me Make a Decision
0bsessions:
--- Quote from: Ikrik on 30 May 2008, 00:19 ---No, what I am not is a relentless Sony or Microsoft fanboy who goes batshit whenever someone mentions the other console. I've heard so much crap about the PS3 and honestly I don't really know what to believe. By no means am I a "hardcore" gamer who spends hours and hours becoming amazing at whatever FPS I've picked up. I like playing video games but I have other hobbies as well. I'd rather make an informed decision rather than buying a 360 or PS3 and then regretting my decision later.
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You can take the hostility down a notch. McTaggart made an entirely fair point. Bluntly speaking, by the sounds of your gaming habits, either one would be a waste of money.
If you can't be arsed to pick up your Wii OR your DS considering some of the excellent titles available for both, I have little doubt that if you buy either a PS3 OR 360, you're going to love it for a couple months and then you'll have yet another multi-hundred dollar paper weight to contend with.
Just save your money.
Surgoshan:
Both the Wii and the DS are much more gimmicky. Yes, they both have excellent games, but they have a greater tendency toward the counterintuitive (particularly the Wii) than you'll find in more mainstream consoles. For the casual gamer, other consoles are more likely to hold attention and derive greater enjoyment.
Given the wealth of titles available, I'd recommend the 360. It's better implemented and has greater support.
Ozymandias:
I would like to jump in and say, given that you don't sound like a particularly hardcore gamer, you might want to look into some of the more ancillary characteristics of the two consoles:
Both the 360 and PS3 allow streaming of video content from your PC. This is arguably easier to do with the PS3, but they both do it well.
The PS3 is a Blu-ray player. If you have an HDTV, this is awesome. If you don't, this is useless.
Between the two, the 360 has more casual games on XBox Live Arcade, ranging from classic things like Pac-Man to modern awesomeness like Puzzle Quest or Penny Arcade Adventures.
PS3 is wireless enabled out of the box. It's $100 more for the 360. You don't care about online gaming, but if you want to network it, it's a thing you have to think about.
Storm Rider:
Additionally, online service is free on the PS3, and 50 dollars per year for the 360, but the 360 service is almost universally agreed to be more functional and better implemented. If you don't care about online play, that's irrelevant, but I figure it's worth a mention.
Ikrik:
I apologize for being a bit of a dick with an earlier post but I was offended by two of the posts. I am a gamer, I've been playing video games since I was eight, there has never been a time in my life where I have gone without a console. However gaming is not my life, I read, write, draw, and do a lot of photography. And while I'm not a "hardcore" gamer video games are still one of the most entertaining forms of media that I know. so when someone says "don't bother, you don't seem to want either" and someone else says "yeah, you don't sound like a gamer" it offends me because they're basing that off of like 3 paragraphs. So let me phrase myself a little better when it comes to my video game habits.
For the past couple of months my Wii has been collecting dust, the same with my DS. I am currently in grade 12, the hardest and most stressful year of highschool. Now in a couple weeks when school is over I'll probably be playing with my Wii a lot. I have been insanely stressed out this entire year because of this wonderful thing implemented by the British Columbia Education System called "Graduation Transitions." The thing in question has kept me up at night for a long time because they keep making changes to the thing and we didn't learn until this year what exactly we needed to graduate. And I love my DS too, but again it hasn't been getting too much love because I need to do well in all my classes and have to study a lot because chemistry, math, and physics are not easy courses to pass.
And I love the Wii, it's a great console. But it doesn't scratch my itch. Games like Super Mario Galaxies, SSBB, and Zelda are amazing but they just don't quench my thirst. My friend bought a Wii when it first came out and he went through a very similar thought process to mine. In his own words "The Wii is not a standalone console." And so four months later he went out a purchased a 360. And now I'm going through a similar thought-process. So what I wanted was people's opinions on which console is worth getting for whatever reasons, not people telling me that I'm not "gamer" enough to warrant getting either.
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