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JBG wrote:JBG's console guide.

Xbox 360:

Pros:

1. Excellent High Definition graphics and sound.
2. Xbox Live! is the best online service of all three consoles.
3. Has been out over a year so there are plenty of good games available for it now, particularly Gears of War, which is the most impressive "Next Gen" console game available.
4. It has many excellent games coming out in 2007.
5. Most old Xbox games now work with it.
6. Microsoft have signed a number of console exclusives with developers and previously Playstation exclusive titles are now coming out on the Xbox 360.
7. Excellent control pad.
8. Gamerpoints system is terrific.
9. Cheap when compared to the PS3.

Cons:
1. The machine is notoriously unreliable although breakdowns are not as common as they were.
2. Doesn't have built in wireless connectivity. You need to buy a WiFi connector.
3. While Xbox Live! is excellent, you need to pay for it.
4. Doesn't have as many older games for it as the PS3 has.
5. The Core edition is a waste of time (no hard drive) and the Premium Edition's hard drive is smaller than the PS3's.
6. No web browser as yet.
7. Doesn't come with a next gen disk player although a separate HD DVD can be bought.

Nintendo Wii

Pros:

1. The Wiimote is hugely original and will allow new types of gameplay that the 360 and PS3 cannot compete with (at least until a Wiimote style controller eventually comes out on other consoles).
2. Its the cheapest of the three consoles.
3. Nintendo always brings out highly original and addictive games. It has Zelda on it.
4. Its selling massively well world wide which means that it will have a lot of games for it over its lifetime.
5. It will have backwards compatability with previous Nintendo games through its download service. It will also have a web browser.

Cons

1. The Wiimote could yet prove to be a flash in the pan gimick.
2. It has fairly poor graphics when compared to the PS3 and 360.
3. Some of the bigger name titles which will appear on the PS3 and 360 probably won't make it over to the Wii.
4. The first generation of Wiimotes had faulty straps.

PS3.

Pros:

1. Excellent HD graphics and sound.
2. As its Sony and its a Playstation it will sell bucket loads regardless of the bad publicity and this will inevitably mean that it will have a lot of good games.
3. Sony still has some of the biggest names such as Tekken, Gran Turismo and Metal Gear Solid.
4. Although very expensive, you get a lot of stuff for your money, particularly a Blu Ray disk player.
5. Its a tried and tested forumla that has worked in the past.

Cons:

1. Even though Sony is probably correct in saying that its good value for money, its still massively expensive for a console. This will price a lot of people out of the market.
2. Including a Blu Ray player is a gamble (although its looking like Blu Ray is edging its nose out in front in the next generation disk war).
3. It doesn't include a HDMI cable in the box which has annoyed a lot of fans with HDMI compatible tvs.
4. So far its online service is a pale shadow of Xbox Live!
5. Sony has lost a lot of exclusives from the PS1 and PS2 days and there is a danger that some of its bigger names that it still has might also appear on the 360.
6. Despite all the hype, graphically, it appears that the 360 is as least as good, despite being on the market for more than a year already.
7. The release of the PS3 in Japan and American has been beset by teething problems with backwards compatability and problems with High Definition compatability with some tvs.

red37 wrote:.......Mass Effect, Darkness, Half Life package, Burnout 5 and Blacksite:area51 all in addition to the above (for me).  Its going to be an expensive yet entertaining year!

the only issue i have with Live is - the subscription fee. It should be (Gold, that is) free as standard imo.  As for the microsoft points system, why oh why can you not pay using a Debit card/Paypal etc...More accessibility = more spending Ms.


good read though (JBG and Paul C)