The PS3 vs Wii60

[Minty]

The new wave of consoles has been out for a while, with the battle for the best next-generation console being fierce between the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3, and the outsider – the Nintendo Wii. Which one of these consoles will win the battle in the long run? Nobody can say for sure at the moment. What we can do is take a quick look at all three consoles, and let you know what we think….

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[Farrmark]

Great article, pretty much sums up my feelings about the PS3 exactly

[Rocket]

Very Well written Minty...That is an excellent read...bravo!

[graemelunn]

Great article Minty - correctly highlighting that the impending European failure of PS3 is due to alienating their market rather than any failings of the console itself. Top Job, now have a beer

[rlg420]

It appears that you were fair with your decision and I applaud that. I will not be buying a PS3 either, due to price and the attitude they have shown on all fronts. I have been able to get some wrist flicking time in on the Wii and I must say that I don't find it all that fun. The idea is awesome, but the execution is lacking. Maybe if the Big N had games I just had to play like they did when I was a youngster then maybe I would think differently. Plus there are no achievements!

Thanks for the read.

[Eyeradicate]

This Article couldn't be put together any better. I myself am on my 3rd XboX 360 but never the less tire of it. Also "had" a Nintendo Wii. I Loved The Wii but did not really have a purpose for it as my 360 was always being played. Weeks had gone by and the Wii (which I didn’t have a problem with) collected dust. My Room mate also had a Wii and has been a more than avid Nintendo Fan for years and years. After playing my Xbox he got hooked (Mostly for the achievement points) sadly we both traded our Wii’s in for credit toward an Xbox 360 Elite System. I loved the Wii, Just not as much as I love the 360… I believe if your an avid xboxer then that's the only system that you need, as it will grant you with everything you need from a system and otherwise......

[Farrmark]

I'll be getting a Wii in the future, but only when Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is bundled with it because I have to know how the trilogy ends

[chris n lana]

Great article, completely fair. We bought a PS3 but it's been traded in for a Wii. Now we just need to wait for the shop to get some in...

[Cobra 69 Venom]

I'm Australian, and Sony have done the same thing to us over here. And with the fact that GTA4 and many other games are not just for the playstation i will be sticking to the 360.

I have a Wii also, while my girlfriend enjoys playing all the old Nintendo games on it, the novelty of it wore of after a few weeks. If a developer would make a decent game for this console, that isn't just a bunch of mini games i could change my mind.

[Aprosa]

great article Minty! (Y) nicely said!

i have owned a Wii also.. because i am a huge Zelda fan.. but after completing that game there was no game that i would like to play.. so i sold em... but when Mario Kart is launched i will get another Wii!

The Wii was only € 250 for playing Zelda... but i wont get a PS3 only or the F1 game! no way! to expensive!

Keep up the good work!

[KAPPZ IS BACK]

See what Nintendo doesn't realize about their systems is that eight months after their release just about everybody who wanted one bought one. Then they wonder where did their sales go.

[Fonkey Monkey]

best artilce yet.

[JonnyC VT]

This article is a disgrace!

PS3 fanboys unite!

That was uncalled for. My apologies Mr. Mint. Actually that was a fantastic read. Thank your for solidifying my love of the 360 sir.

[JigSaw]

That was a great article expressing all the right points. I am infact an owner of an xbox ( on my second), a Wii, and a ps3. I play my Wii maby once a week, and the ps3 maby 5 minutes in a month. But nothing can handle the perfectness i find in my xbox, its just something no competeitor can match up to

[Cold Rival]

Great article Minty. It's a cracking read, nice work.

[JamesSoprano]

i do not care for Wii ... i played splinter cell DA and what can i say omg AWFULL it's Dreadfull i have to put my arm up to make sam jump and the move the remote around to make him look around and i hate it i don't care for cenoring in this game ... now i played Wii Sports and i however had a blast with that .. but looking at Wii games .. i find it too kiddy for me to me in my mind nintendo calls everyone over buy if people wanna play things more mature ( don't get me wrong by saying their is no mature games for Wii cause their is some but red steel or whatever it's called doesn't grab my attention ) now back to the controller ... the size of the remote is almost identicle to my DVD Remote controll now their is one racing game to use the controller as a wheel and you know what that's nice but i don't really care and the other big issue is ... they ruined zelda for me i hate to say it i was a big fan of theirs but i did not care for the game play in Majoras mask or gamecubes windwaker ( awful graphics ) and for twilight princess i thought WOW this is gonna be cool till i see link turn into a .. wolf ? come on !!! what next metroid not only morhing into a doll but morphing into a Jaguar i think it's a bit silly and nintendo died to me when N64 came out my favorite games on N64 were goldeneye , quake , zelda OFT , dukenukem and mario 64

and now for the better systems

Xbox 360 ... you look beautiful but if you do one slight thing wrong their does your profile and possibly game saves as well and the 3 blinking lights of death which happened to a friend of mine 2 times but fixed it free but the first time he sent money to buy a 2 year warranty .. they kept some money for a warranty no more then 6 and a half months later same issue and called them up and they tell him that he doesn't have a 2 year warranty and that conversation folks lasted 20 mins to a half hour and he asked for the supervisor and they said we will talk to him for you 10 mins later they come back to phone saying they sent the money back but the warranty for the money they kepts was for a short period of time and now i think microsoft is sly and sneeky i say BEWARE they may fool you for buying something that you actually didn't reason for not giving him 2 year warranty was cause they fixed it for free and they didn't think he needed the 2 year warranty .. now with the problems people have been having with the system you think other wise and besides if you want something to buy and you send the money they shouldn't refuse it. now for the games i wish their was demos for every games on marketplace but their isn't which is a drawback for me cause i wanna see what certain games are like and i can't till i rent or buy it and i know it better to fork over $6 for 3 days then not play at all but i can get a game for 1 day for 99 cents and that is enough time for me to decide what to get for a game and they don't got a big selection of 360 games and most games don't grab me .. and infact i have gotten 10 gmaes for 360 1 was for my birthday and 2 came with my 360 and now the other ones i bought myself online or from another person very cheap and out of those games i have played 5 games out of 10 and gears of war HASN'T seen the likes inside my machine i have it for the collection and having issues like having 2 corrupt profiles and 1 times lost game data for the games i played to replay them again was some Fluke accident cause the xbox messed up and had no other way to turn it of but the main button on the system and another peeve i have for the 360 is all old xbox games will NOT play for the 360 and i think it's dumb and for the ones that can you cannot save your games which i think is messed up and a big falure on their part .. console was made too fast to ship out to beat sony ... all i can say is if microsoft didn't think sony was a threat then why release it right away to only have alot shipped back the same week ???

and now for the PS3

i do not own one but i play one at a friends house and so far i thought it was cool .. don't care for the whole Blu-Ray factor and i will stick with my dvd player but give things time things drop in price ( talking about Blu-Ray movies and FYI i'm not anal about pizles and issus related stuff or how much sharper it is to other DVD version and i also have not seen a blu-ray or HD-DVD play on dvd before but i'm not fussy to me it's just getting the movie that counts ) now i played motorstorm and Resistance demo ( which i thought kicked ass ) i also played Geji which i wasn't fussy for .. and i haven't play but don't care for the armored core games but i thought Oblivion on it was better and i believe most or some people have seen the diffrence between xbox 360 and PS3 version and i think PS3 comes out on top it's almsot the same but in the video one specific point the guy walks over the hill to come to a Fort in the game i believe it was and for the PS3 when you reached the top of the hill right in front of yours eyes the fort is their for the 360 you have to take about 5 steps for it to generate in front of you but for me it's all about games not graphics but PS3 regenerates quicker now people may say ( 360 you can buy items with points ) who cares !!! horse armor to me is useless and i'm happy with what the game has to offer and people boo the PS3 version cause it doesn't have the marketplace to buy stuff and i think it's perfectly fine cause i say: be happy with what you get the game took a long time to be made from morrowind from that being said i also applaude the PS3 plaing PS2 and PSX games !!! and the other big thing for it is .. ( drum roll please ) * Drum Roll * you can save PSX and PS2 games on the HD !!!!! 360 cannot do this and my friend has had a PS3 since launch and has had no issues with it ( froze once or twice but 360 freezes too ! ) and for you people who thing the world of purchasing new stuff for Oblivion is a big factor or any other game ... PS3 can Number crunch FASTER then a PC and help people with cancer and yet no one seems to mention that .. who wants a system to cure cancer .. well i do cause when i am not playing it or when i am out for the day i can leave it on and get some progress done on it * it's better then nothing *

now i hate nintendo , i like the 360 but some stuff i don't care for like ( extra items maps or characters in game so much i think it should be free but should not tip the scales in favor for 360 over PS3 ) and the 360 is fun too but not many of the games interest me and it been out over a year , now for the PS3 i am sure their is isues with it but i have not seen any it may cost a hell of a lot more but it's a very powerfull machine ! and as for the controllers it's good it's simple not so many buttons as the 360 but after a while i got use to the xbox controller but i do not care for rumble it's cool but it's about the game not a controller

this is my view between the three systems and i like PS3 and 360 but hate nintendo ( not a fan boy for any system )

[JoeCool7835]

Kudos for saying the truth. The fact is the PS3 delivers with all the techy-crap (1080p, Blu-Ray, etc.), but does NOT deliver on the games. Aside from Resistence and MotorStorm, there's nothing on the PS3 you can't get on the 360. In fact, the multi-platform releases are actually better on the 360 than the PS3. There's nothing on the system now that makes it worth getting, and with so many "exclusives" jumping to the 360, there won't be much of a reason to get it later.

[machII]

Originally Posted by JoeCool7835

Kudos for saying the truth. The fact is the PS3 delivers with all the techy-crap (1080p, Blu-Ray, etc.), but does NOT deliver on the games. Aside from Resistence and MotorStorm, there's nothing on the PS3 you can't get on the 360. In fact, the multi-platform releases are actually better on the 360 than the PS3. There's nothing on the system now that makes it worth getting, and with so many "exclusives" jumping to the 360, there won't be much of a reason to get it later.

Yeah good point but remember these on ps3 are launch titles and "will" get better personally some of the games on the ps3 look better in HD and the new tekken: dark ressurrection looks awesome! " £6.99 too! " on download... much better value than any arcade game....

the 360 achievement system is a force to be reckoned with..
and sony are missing a trick if they cant initiate a similar system

The ps2 controllers in my opinion are the best and have only improved to being much lighter and the bluetooth system is a great feature..Many people that are saying the ps3 costs too much,well quite a few people have had broken xboxs- as many as 5 for some,my brothers on no.2 and overall have to pay more money in the long run... xboxlive is an experience you have to pay for , the online playstation network psn is free and gives you access to an internet browser.we have been bookmarking our fave sites on psn and this eliminates the need to fire up your p.c.... "sweet"
we also can connect wirelessly out of the box or with the bundled ethernet cable via your router.. the ps3 has still much to come being a new console and will eventually over take the xbox , just maybe not in terms of units sold, in terms of quality.
In terms of quality i agree the 360 is the best at present but in europe too this is not a new thing regarding paying over the odds this has been happening for decades...... i can remember now for years also that because these machines are made /concieved in japan or america it is in a manufactured state for the ntsc market and delays are usually for the conversion into the european pal market..... hence us europeans waiting, when english games are made they hit europe first and the ntsc markets last....
I guess what we need is european next gen console so that maybe a little parity is restored!!!!
new updates are making the ps3 a good place to be online with each update improving the experience.
to be honest we own both systems and therefore probably can give a more balanced opinion..
to play a ps3 for 12hrs hardly constitutes a balanced argument
however i agree on many points- not all...
the ps3 is more of a risk at the price point but will offer the best in time
and sat next to the 360 looks more of a quality product
ps3 imo is more future proof too... just my opinion
am sure most gamers just want to be playing the best and in both ps3/360 you will do this, 360 is in terms of value and completion superior especially regarding value but remember sony has taken on the likes of sega and attained market status with playstation,ps2 and now has to play catch up with a very strong product in microsoft .
would it be fair to summarise the ps3 as more of an entertainment system than a games machine?
heres another example for you to maybe add parity to the two main machines
1] xbox 360 premium plus hd dvd player £399 best deal [new]
2] sony ps3 blu ray built in 60gb version £399 best deal. [new]
its a bit like a debate on the lancer evo v subaru impreza
around a track the evo seems to have it, just check out youtube for the topgear tests/fifth gear etc.. but in terms of cost the scooby wins
and most people agree
i would personally argue the fight for both and love to have either but only be able to give a balanced view if owned both.. which will never happen!!!! wtf!
just my overall opinion -- shoot me down non ps3 owners..!!!

[BullseyeBounty]

Halo 3 will PWN MGS

[Deagle I87]

My cousin has the 360 and decided to buy the PS3. He now regrets that he ever bought the PS3 because it has been collecting dust and thats it. He played Resistance for a little bit and just wasnt as impressed as he was with the 360. So the winner is 360. He finally sold his PS3 and bought a 32 inch HDTV with the money. He is so glad that it is out of his house and he has learned his lesson on just buying things for kicks and giggles.

[monkfeesh82]

the 360 achievement system is a force to be reckoned with..
and sony are missing a trick if they cant initiate a similar system

this is so true. the achievement system really makes me wanna play games until i can get every last point physically.
i recently got a PS3, coz i got it cheap from my cousin (who was one of the many who bought 2 thinking they would re-sell and make money!!!), and only have played resistance...and coz theres no achievement system, im not totally bothered with the single player game, and just play online (and badly at that - hah!!)

for me the 360 wins hands down,and if it wasnt for cheap blu-ray imports that work in the EU machines, then i dont think i would bother much with the PS3.

[SkilledJR]

very nice arcticle Minty. I currently am a proud owner of 2 Xbox360's and one Nintendo Wii. I just added a PS3 to my collection 2 months ago and I have NO GAMES for it or any Bluray discs either.

I am about to buy another Xbox 360 but go ELITE, and put my PS3 to same til Holiday 07.

picks of my set on myspace.com/SkilledJR

[machII]

Originally Posted by BullseyeBounty

Halo 3 will PWN MGS

Have you not noticed that halo 3 and metal gear solid arn't the same type of game?? I'm not trying to make an arguement with anyone but these are two different games...

[Minty]

Yeah thats like Project Gotham 4 will pwn Dead or Alive Volleyball.

And Halo will probably suck anyway....

[twelve]

I own a 360 and got a wii last week. I was very dubious about getting a wii but decided to give it a go when I saw them in stock and I have to say I absolutely love it. Who knows what I'll think of it in a month when I've finished Zelda but so far I can't see my 360 getting much playtime.

PS3 atm hasn't got much appeal for me but I have no doubt in my mind that I'll get one eventually. It's gonna take a few killer exclusives and I'll get one. Little big world is certainly looking good.

So for now I'm a wii60 owner. But later this year/early next year I'll become a PSWii60 owner.

[machII]

Originally Posted by Minty

Yeah thats like Project Gotham 4 will pwn Dead or Alive Volleyball.

And Halo will probably suck anyway....

High five minty! lol...............

And im a ps360 owner Might get a wii soon..

[Monk Monk 06]

I love my Ps3, Im not a halo fan. I dont know why i just dont find it attactive. Im a hardcore MGS fan but there are rumors that Kojima is being forced to make MGS4 on x360 aswell! but he says its a Ps title and will remain a PS title. I hope so cause if it was on both consoles i would have to buy 2 copies, one to enjoy on PS3 (the only way MGS should only be played) and one for 360 for achs.

Somthing in my gut says one day near Christmas, ill log on to XBL and ill see MGS4 download trailer now! and my heart will sink.... and ill cry and then jesus will rise from the grave and all is lost for ps3

[Jdm7399]

Great article Minty!

I am a PSWii60 owner. I own all 3 next-gen consoles and they all have their pros and cons.

Now this is how I view the 3 consoles:

Sony PS3
I use it for watching Blu-Ray movies and listening to music, more so than playing games. I own more Blu-Ray movies than I do games. PSN(PlayStation Network) needs to pick up the pace and the missing pieces if they want to be successful like Xbox Live.

Microsoft Xbox 360
My MAIN console. I love it, my bros love it, and so does my girlfriend. Can't get enough of Xbox Live and Unlocking Achievements. I currently own 40+ retail games and I have a few HD-DVD movies that I play on the HD drive. Can't live without it...I'm on my 3rd 360 already. How many more times must it die on me?

Blu-Ray Vs. HD-DVD
I have the best of both worlds. This is like going back to VHS Vs. Betamax. Which format will win? I don't care as long as they keep coming out with great movies.

Nintendo Wii
It's fun for the whole family! What I like most about it is the innovation. It's different and Nintendo is sending a message to rivals, Sony and Microsoft. What it lacks, is great games. You need games that can back up your console. I don't want to be stuck playing Pokemon or some other kiddie game for the next couple years.

Who will dominate and win this console war? It's too soon to know. We'll have to see in a few years. Just my 2 cents...

BTW, can I steal that Wii60 logo off your article, Minty? It looks much better than my Wii60 logo. If not, it's ok.

[Minty]

Cheers for the responses

And anyone that wants to use the logo feel free lol

[zebatov]

I agree with most things he's said here... I'd like to add that the PS3 also doesn't have a removable HD and you can't resell games. However, I disagree that games are more expensive in the UK. I'm talking with my friend right now and he says that DEF Jam is only 7 pounds. That's what... Less than 20 Canadian? Most games here are still over 40. Good article.