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Post #339898

Author
Jay
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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Date created
17-Dec-2008, 7:31 PM

There's no question that price is a factor in this generation. If Sony had managed to get the PS3 down to $299 before Black Friday, their sales numbers would be very different right now.

Of course, it's easy for Nintendo to compete on price; their hardware is pretty old and weak. MS let quality control go completely out the window, so they're able to dump some fairly piss-poor engineering into a box at a bargain price. The PS3, on the other hand, is truly a fine piece of hardware. I'm not saying that as a fanboy, it's just fact. The failure rate is extremely low and the components are of very high quality. Expensive as hell to build though. Unfortunately for Sony, they built a piece of hardware that was meant to last, both quality- and technology-wise, while the other guys reused old tech or turned a blind eye to build quality.

For me, the best games the PS3 has to offer are more appealing than the 360's library. There's nothing the 360 has that has the same finesse and class as Uncharted--nothing--and it's still one of the best looking titles to come out of this generation. The visuals from the sequel are simply stunning and blow away even the original. I'm also a racing game fan, so Gran Turismo 5 and Wipeout HD are great exclusives. And while I'm not the biggest FPS fan, Resistance was great for a launch title and Resistance 2 got rave reviews.

The PS3 doesn't have the broad library the 360 does, but when I look at the types of games I like to play, the PS3's library is better suited to my tastes.