Predictions for PS3 vs 360

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http://www.gamespot.com/features/6146540/index.html

came across this link. The black version doesnt look that bad..the white one looks boring.

"Instead of putting together an expensive box with impressive hardware specifications like the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, Nintendo decided to set its Revolution system apart by offering innovative gameplay with a new motion sensitive controller. "

sorry but..im not excited about the revolution at all. PS3 and only PS3 will be in my house unless my brother breaks down and gets a 360.

I guess we shall see, Avatarr, but I doubt it. It might do well amongst women, but unless they set up REVs in Bars playing a golf game or bowling game, etc. It won\'t be the biggest thing since the PSX or better put (as you put it > EVERYTHING) the NES.

In Japan it will be huge, I am sure, but the USA doesn\'t seem to accept change so amazingly fast as the rest of the world. and people aren\'t just going to drop the Playstation and to some extent XBox namebrand in favor of a system with 30 games at the end of 2007. 360 will already have more than 10 million systems worldwide at the end of this year worldwide if they sell as much as they are hoping and PS3 will shoot out of the gates like Secretariat selling everything in arms length for it\'s first 6 month (potential for 4-5 millions is no joke) and what does the Revolution have? Oh, that\'s right, a remote control.

No games, of course, at least none announced. Maybe Nintendo is just so smart that they all have it under wraps, every game by every publisher, but right now, a 2006 launch for Revolution is looking pretty bleak, especially with many devs only just getting their dev kits recently.

and if the Rev is a great hit, what stops the other systems from creating something similar and having the best of both worlds? It isn\'t like the other companies don\'t know yet what Nintendo is doing and aren\'t looking into what-ifs and such. Only then they will have the power to back them up. And PS3 won\'t have Beetle Racing 256, It will have Gran Turismo or other high profile games with a remote. or some other gimmick device intended to be different.

and 360 won\'t have Geist with a remote, it would have Halo with a remote.

PS3 won\'t have Mario Strikers with a remote, it will have Winning Eleven with a remote, etc.

Get the picture? Games that people already love, using Nintendo\'s gimmick, completely nullifying the "first-console choice appeal" that Nintendo MIGHT get as a result of being different and easy. But then again, people aren\'t really buying too many more games or systems than they were 10 years ago. No matter the advent of CDs, DVD player in gaming, the Eye Toy, online gaming, etc. If it were just as easy as making a controller easy to use = success, NES or Genesis would still be the biggest thing since sliced bread. Sure, with better graphics, but you get the picture. Of course, you could do alot of the stuff you can do on controllers with more buttons, but where is the fun in having options in games, anyway, right?

I just don\'t understand this mindset at all, I believe that the Saturn Nights Pad or the 360 controller are the best ever because of the placement and amount of buttons on them, hence different options of control and having each button doing something instead of one button with the combination of other factors doing things like what might very well happen with the REV. It\'s cool to have the Golfing and Baseball stuff especially, those are going to be amazingly fun games, but I doubt people are going to want a workout everytime they play a game.

Maybe I am just ranting here.

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Thank God someone else realizes the brilliance of the NiGhts Saturn Controller.

Well, I am a videogame fan. :P Not just some fanboy who bases his opening off of only the stuff I like. I have PS2, XBox, GC, N64, Saturn, PSX, etc. and the best controller made for it\'s time was the Saturn NiGHTS pad. If you could figure out how to throw an extra stick onto the right side of it, it would be undeniable for every type of game made. From fighters (thanks to the amazing D-Pad and six face buttons in two rows), racing (triggers), to FPS (dual sticks), to Super Monkey Ball (best sensistivity range and resistance on any stick since the advent of the analog stick on a console controller), etc. The best controller EVER.

Sounds like you just described the 360 controller.

Though I\'d still say a KBaM is the best for FPS\'s.

well, console FPSs are a different breed. The 360 controller lacks a GREAT D-Pad and 6 face buttons in two rows.

Some may say that fighting games aren\'t important anymore, but SF3: 3rd Strike is the best game of all time and if I am going to play it, I am going to play it right.

When I played it on DC, I had a MAS Stick or DC to Saturn convertors and used the Japanese Saturn Pad.

Accept no substitutes.

I still use a saturn pad for most fighting games. Thank god for adaptors.

None of them exist for the 360 though so I had to buy an arcade stick. It\'s perfect, but a little pricey.

well, console FPSs are a different breed. The 360 controller lacks a GREAT D-Pad and 6 face buttons in two rows.

Some may say that fighting games aren\'t important anymore, but SF3: 3rd Strike is the best game of all time and if I am going to play it, I am going to play it right.

When I played it on DC, I had a MAS Stick or DC to Saturn convertors and used the Japanese Saturn Pad.

Accept no substitutes.

Anyone that believes that fighting games arent important are those that suck at fighting games or are just PC gamer-graphic whores period

If it were just as easy as making a controller easy to use = success, NES or Genesis would still be the biggest thing since sliced bread.

Of course, no one would be foolish enough to try to make money today using NES and Genesis games. Especially in some kind of downloadable, pay-to-play, virtual console service.
 
I will buy a Nintendo Revolution because Nintendo is doing something different. And it\'s doing it cheaper than the other guys.
 
Sony and Microsoft are content to rip us off for more of the same stuff we\'ve already gotten sick of over the last 10 years. (And by we, I mean me.)
 
And don\'t forget the price issue. I say the fewest number of people will buy a PS3 and an Xbox 360.  But there\'s no reason for anyone to not run out and pick up a Revolution, if only for the Nintendo-exclusive games some of us write off so quickly.
 
There\'s a reason Nintendo games outsell third party games. Part of it is name brand, but more often than not, it\'s quality software. I will gladly miss out on generic high-res shooter 6 when I can get something even remotely different for cheap on the Revolution.
 
See what I did there?
 
Remotely.
 
By the way, someone from Nintendo ought to send Avatarr a check. ;]
 
-Dan

And you will do that 5 times a year vs. 40 times a year with the other consoles.

Why not have quality and quantity instead of just quality and being different?

If you are sick of the current model of games, play guitar hero (or Guitar Freaks). That\'s right, just because the PS3 or the 360 don\'t have a remote control for a base controller doesn\'t mean they can\'t innovate in their games.

Just so you guys know, I am really excited about the possibilities with the Revolution, I am just playing devil\'s advocate here. I think it will do really well in Japan and pretty well everywhere else, but features and quantity will reign supreme among the masses and they will buy more controllered systems than Revmoted systems.

If Nintendo really wants to win this generation, they should employ Scary Mario©.

Sony and Microsoft are content to rip us off for more of the same stuff we\'ve already gotten sick of over the last 10 years. (And by we, I mean me.)

you mean there wont be another mario or zelda title?

They\'re starting to milk them more than they had been (Mario Soccer?), but there\'s a difference between a Zelda every couple years and three war games on a shelf of new releases. I look at the X360 shelf and see GRAW, Outfit and COD and I think each one looks promising on its own, but just looking at the shelf I grow tired of all three.
 
And, Altered, you don\'t have to extol the virtues of the other consoles to me. I\'ll own all of them.
 
Though I\'m skipping Guitar Hero since I don\'t know anything about playing one. I did grab DDR for GameCube, though. And I have a few EyeToy games. All for ingenuity, wherever it pops up.
 
Also, the Revolution will come with a standard controller (plus motion sensitivity) in order to handle conventional games. I predict you\'ll get one remote packed-in along with the normal looking shell that it fits in.  Additional controllers sold separately.
 
-Dan

I look at the X360 shelf and see GRAW, Outfit and COD and I think each one will be far better in the PC versions



i\'m not buying a rev unless i see a blast corps remake