I will get an xbox 360 sometime, but definately not at launch
I’m pretty much going to have to avoid buying anything too expensive gaming-related until I graduate from college and get a decently paying job, so no Xbox 360 for awhile for me. I may, however, get a PS2 assuming the price takes a nose-dive once the PS3 comes out.
No 360 for me. I’m too much of a Ninty fan nowern days, so it’ll be the Revolution in my grasp.
I shall be playing on the 360 though =) my mate will most likely get it and I’ll be doing some gaming on that…how could I not? Halo 3 =)
I’m still looking forward to the games coming out on it though…they just don’t fail to tempt me.
Best Joypad I’ve held. Console is nice but weighs a TON and warms up like there no tomorrow (have mine right by a window)
PGR 3 rocks but that to nothing as to what COD II is like for me so far.
The opening to that game blow my socks and ears off (quite literary) and hands down the best smoke effects ever (you’re almost chocking playing it ) Great console, and LIVE marketplace and the 360 font end is the best ever.
Call me a fan boy all you want. I’ve never played a new console on the 1st 2 days as much as the 360.
This is going to be one ofthe best console ever.
Ahh the joys of driving In-Car view in my Ferrari F50 with Franz Ferdinand (Do You Want) blasting inthe backround :).
Come on SEGA the In-House stuff onthe console. Live was made for your racers as you Live Arcade for your coin up classics .
This in so many ways is a Dreamcast II
Fook, I can’t believe I completely missed this thread. Well yes, of course I am planning on getting a 360 for several games, TES4: Oblivion, Ghost Recon 3, Halo 3, Splinter Cell 4, perhaps Huxley and a few others. Of course none of these games are out yet, and so I’ll be waiting until they are before I get my console.
Right now I’m feeling quite nihilistic about video games on the whole. I have a couple of essays to write before the end of the semester, and I’m still hopelessly addicted to Ninja Gaiden Black, despite being the 8th best mission mode player dans le monde. I want to buy Shadow the Hedgehog because I’m a big Sonic fan, but the poor reviews it’s getting for being almost the same as an old but still great game is making feel down about even BEING a Sonic fan. Also, I’m trying to romance someone in college and it’s like 1000 times harder than NGB on Master Ninja mode.
So, Xbox 360? Maybe in a year’s time, maybe not. Let’s see what the PS3 and “Revolution” have to offer. If NiGHTS 2, Burning Rangers 2 or any similar sequels are called on any of these then I’m it’s bitch, otherwise it’ll be whatever I feel is worth buying on the whole.
I’ve only got minimal time for games right now and I tend to wait to spend until the consoles are cheap. So if I ever get one it will be quite a while off. I’m only just looking at getting an xbox again at the 360 launch date in NZ as I’m sure I’ll be able to get xboxes very cheap at that point. (I miss Orta)
Well, being unwilling to wait in line any longer than an hour or two I haven’t got my mitts on a 360 yet. DOA4 has me more anxious now, but it’s still not that important to me. Have to wait till the supplies stabilize or I get lucky I guess…
The stage seems well set now for the best console race since “16-bit”, and the more I find out about Xenon and the PS3 specs the more I believe they may actually have some meaningful differences in tech. I had assumed any differences between the two would be almost irrelevant, but it may be less of a wash than I ever expected.
I’ll go on record with a prediction that 360 will eventually display more sheer visual refinement and sophistication, while the PS3 will deliver occasional set-piece titles that wrestle something amazing and unique from all that abstract horsepower. Not too dissimiliar from the XBOX and PS2 actually. But maybe that’s just whishful thinking, hardware differences can influence interesting divisions in software priorities.
I’m especially interested in what Sony will think is best for their launch; wait a month or two and have less shortage or try to get PS3 out ASAP as well? If they actually redesign the controller I’ll finally have no concrete reason for disdaining them anymore, and even if the hardware isn’t the most elegant at least this time it wont be so obviously bad in any respect.
Nintendo has made their bed, and I think it may be the smartest thing they’ve done in a while. The market could be right for a low cost ‘fun’ machine that doesn’t have to tittilate the sophists and graphics whores with every new game. Now let’s hope it’s not just all about rehashing their glory days…
Well anyway, sorry if another “lecture” tries anyone, it’s all about the games and here’s hoping Panzer Dragoon makes a triumphant return on anything… just hopefully the prettiest one. 
Basically, the 360 has a much more flexible GPU with merged vertex and pixel pipelines, while the PS3 has a CPU capable of better physics due to the parrallelisable nature of its seven specialised SPEs (the 360 has more general purpose processing power).
This will be a Genesis versus SNES rematch with neither console simply being more powerful than the other. The differences between the 360 and PS3 are nothing compared to the differences between the PS2 and the 18 month newer Xbox. I feel sorry for anyone who believes differently. There’s only a few months separating the hardware after all.
That I agree with completely. Of course I’ve always felt sorry for that certain breed of Sony fan anyway, these would be the same people who still said PS2 was actually more powerful than XBOX for 2 or 3 years.
There were a handful of PS2 games that had higher poly-counts than anything on XBOX, at the expense of image sophistication. Still it was pretty good at throwing polygons at you. Even if nothing else…
OK, I didn’t actually intend to start anything with this but I’ve deprived myself of any other outlet lately and things are getting interesting now, I truly don’t want anyone to “win” this next generation anyway.
Neither do I. As long as Sony is competing heavily with someone, games should thrive. This should be the dawn of another golden age of gaming.
At this point in time, however, people will continue to be seduced by the theoretical performance figures of the Playstation 3. It’s quite tragic really.
I just hope I haven’t seen the end of PD.There are concepts that are just too good to be forgotten and games like Saga leave too much water on your mouth when you have finished them.
An infinite number of possibilities yet people have no balls or the patience…
Still there are way too many games I’m looking forward to.
I was talking about the REVs mooted “budget” price yesterday with a friend, and we concluded that it’d be good for old-time gamers, but not for the casual people that Nintendo are trying to attract with their fun pick up n play games.
Y’see, casual gamers (or to put it more accurately, their parents) knows very little/nothing about videogames. When I’m trying to explain the joys of Metal Slug or Alien Hominid to somebody whos trying to buy 50 Cent, they’re mistrustful. Why? Because the games I’m recommending are cheap.
Cheap. Budget. Economy. These are words not associated with premium quality goods. If something is cheaper than the competition as soon as it is released, surely there must be something wrong with it?
I may never have tried Tescos “Value” loo roll, but I’m sure it’s not as nice on my bum as Andrex Quilted. Likewise, a customer may never play King of Fighters 2000, because it’s budget price (and budget publisher) aren’t the guarantee of quality that Namco and Tekken are.
This situation doesn’t entirely translate to the PS3/360/Rev customer dynamic; but it will come across some of their minds.
Interesting comment but you have to admit that the “economy” games market has actually been pushing sales with a lot of people into buying and purchasing game systems of a downgraded price or secondhand nature.Video games have become so accesible due to the trade/second hand culture developed in the west. The second hand market is massive,so massive in fact that the big wigs want to close it down like they tried in Japan. it’s be curious to see how many of the casual gamers actually brought the ps2 at it’s original price or the slashed price and second hand price and whether these people will outweigh those who buy a NG system when it first comes out at the original RRP.
Yes cheap games being available has driven sales lately - but the items that are selling well are items that were originally “expensive”. Take GTA for example. Ignoring brand awareness, if San Andreas has been released at a budget price it would’ve never had had that “worth” about it in the first place - getting the game for ?15 second hand isn’t a bargain if it originally released at ?20.
Take the iPod then - the “cool” of them isn’t just down to the design but also because the prices of the most recent models are always extremely expensive - the brand has established connotations of a particular “value” partly because it is more expensive than its peers.
My worry with the Revolution is that if you start low the only way to go is down; and it will never have that association of “worth” because it will always be the cheapest of the three. 
Obviously a nintendo supporter then. I won’t be purchasing any of the NG systems until its clear which system Sega intends to fully support. I got burned purchasing the Xbox because half the Sega games i wanted never came out or was released on an inferior system. The cube was not bad because of the cheap price and the cool import device for it so i was able to get the true quantity of games Sega actually released for it. I hope Sega actually balances and supports all the NG systems fairly with several exclusives for each one. At the moment though Nintendo if true that Sega plans to use the online system to make all their back libary downloadble is a strong contender. I’m also holding out that nintendo lets Camelot make more SHINING FORCE games for Sega.
I’m not supporting anybody - make some good games, and I will buy them.
When talking about cheap prices you have to think of the main market age out there and who is actually going to be buying these consoles.
Think about it. Nintendo have tried to widen the age range of their games right? Some games being much more younger age friendly, others (namely Resi 4 for example) aimed a little higher…though no doubt these same kids getting younger aged games will probably get their hands on Resi 4 anyway.
Yeah, onto my point - who’s going to be buying the console for these 8-14 year olds? They probably don’t have jobs, so who’s going to be paying for this? That’s right, their parents. Now, I’m not a parent (I’m not even 20 0.0) but parents don’t generally have the frame of mind as “Expensive is better” unless you have rich parents. They’ll want to get something which seems considerable.
What seems more considerable for a console? ?100-200? Or ?250-300? They’ll be taking in the fact that the cost won’t stop there - they’ll have to buy at least one game straight away as well. That’s another ?40 added on.
You’ll find that a lot of parents would rather go for the cheaper option. I was talking to my dad about this a while back and he’d having the conversation with quite a few parents - all of them agreeing.
Ok, admittedly, theres a massive market of those with jobs/parents aren’t paying/etc. but the younger market is still a big market.
What I’ve found in my 4+ years working in game retail is that parents will shy away from the Nintendo section - it’s hidden in the back of the store (as Nintendo aren’t prepared to pay the money to secure floor space), we get about 5 copies of major releases (Fire Emblem, I’m looking at you), and we never get any posters or anything to shout about the new games that people should be preordering.
Also, back onto the cost thing - if your kid absolutely has to have a PS3, coming home with a Revolution is not an option has migraine thinking about 360 launch
Parents trust brands, when they have little else to go on. If your house was full of brilliantly functioning Samsung products, and I was a salesman recommending you a Panasonic TV, what would you choose? There are 100million PS2s out there - that’s a massive influence on peoples minds already - if Nintendo want some sales they’ll have to stop all this “We’re aiming at a different market” crap and start trying to win customers back.
They’re falling down the pit trap Sega did >< little advertising. Little shelf space. People just shrug it off.
Mm…I can see the trouble a lot of parents would get into if they brought home the wrong console. But some, for the higher prices, might just out and right say “No, that’s too expensive” which the point I think I was trying to say before…but got myself muddled up.
I hated it when Saturn games slowly widdled down to one shelf. It just showed it’s slow death…
You have to pay for shelf space? Interesting. Bah…Ninty need to pay attention more to what’s happening inside the shops.