NationStates Jolt Archive

All right all you gamers on NSG, tell the truth: How many of you own the consoles you continually claim is the best? I own the Wii, and will be reading your responses in teeny eye strain-o-vision. (Computer trouble:()

I don't own a PS3 because I can't afford one. However I've played it numerous times at mates, as well as the 360 and Wii. It is the best.

still trying to decide which to buy... tho I am leaning on PS3 and the Wii.

I deal with Microsoft at work and on my home PC... why would I want their gaming unit?

I own all three... but prefer 360.

I've played all three and the only conclusion I've reached is that the wii sucks...except for Mario Kart.

teeny eye strain-o-vision.

A Yahtzeeism.

And I own both a Wii and a 360 (among other systems), but I have to say I "love me some Xbox."

PC only. No touching the black-box heresy.

I switched my allegiance from Sony to Microsoft weeks after PS3 came out. What happened to all the good japanese rpgs? And thanks a lot sony for jacking up your prices to $500+. I think the wii is pretty fun (brawl, etc etc) but they're mostly for casual gamers. I'm leaning towards the 360 right now as they have some of the best games of all genres.

I hope ps3 dies.

A Yahtzeeism.

And I own both a Wii and a 360 (among other systems), but I have to say I "love me some Xbox."

Just not talking about the same thing!:D

I don't have any of them. My PS2 continues to amuse me.

Personally, I find all this "Console X is better than Console Y" bullshit completely ridiculous. I own all three.

Though I was initially a bit anti-Wii because I'm a gaming purist and was slightly put off by the unconventional control and marketing beyond the traditional gamer market, I lived with someone who had a Wii last year and its amazing. I don't own anything newer than an N64 myself, though, as I can't afford it as a poor student.

I have a 360 but have played all three and can say two things with certainty:
1. PC is the best
2. The Wii sucks soooooooo much

The PS3 and 360 are both pretty good.

All the good games for 360 are available for other platforms.

Virtually all the good games for PS3 are available for other platforms.

Thus I have a Wii.

I like the Wii, but I don't have my own. My television is too small.

My only game system is an NES I found on the side of the road.

PS3 and Wii, both of which I own.

Wii. *nodnod*

Well, that and my PS2, but that's not up there.

I "root" for the Wii.

I don't own one, but my boyfriend does. I live with him.

Does that count?

I switched my allegiance from Sony to Microsoft weeks after PS3 came out. What happened to all the good japanese rpgs? And thanks a lot sony for jacking up your prices to $500+. I think the wii is pretty fun (brawl, etc etc) but they're mostly for casual gamers. I'm leaning towards the 360 right now as they have some of the best games of all genres.

I hope ps3 dies.

Considering that the PS3 has a Blu-Ray drive, the Xbox360 has an HD-DVD drive, and Blu-Ray won the new format war...

As for consoles, I don't own a current generation one. I'm still stuck in last generation, thank you.

own a PS2,

I have to vote for the PC being better than all three of them.

I have a PS3 as without blu ray the Xbox 360 is just a hi tech paperweight. If I had children I would go with the Wii for family entertainment value. But for the kind of games I like, the combination of my PS3 and my PC covers everything I want.

Wii only has childish arcade games. Mario Kart FTL
It's hard to find any good games for either Xbox or 360.
PS3 is just an upgraded PS2, and you can't even play most PS1 and 2 games on it.

I have PS2 and PC, and I'm sticking with them.

I own an eeeggsss bawks, but I don't much care. I do find PS3 owners to be a tad obnoxious however.

I thought console wars was something people grew out of by the age of, say, 12.

PS3 is just an upgraded PS2,Uh, no. I used to have a PS2. Now I have a PS3, and... just no.

and you can't even play most PS1 and 2 games on it.On that front, at least I bought in early while they were still making PS3's with complete backward compatibility for PS2 games. And fortunately there aren't too many PS1 games that I like to play again and again... although it would be a great move for Sony to start making MORE of these available for download.

I thought console wars was something people grew out of by the age of, say, 12.

You'd be surprised. Though CM is only 14.

I thought console wars was something people grew out of by the age of, say, 12.

You can take the man out of the console wars, but you can never take the console wars out of the man.

I have a PS3 and I will root for it y? because I have one and don't want to admit that I have an inferior product.

I have played the Wii and the PS3 is a lot better than it, as for the 360 I am yet to play one properly not just at the EA Games promotion nights for sales reps, where they only had the Rugby league game in all the 360's they had there oh well.

Well, I don't own a video game console, and I root against all of them... does that count?

I thought console wars was something people grew out of by the age of, say, 12.

I was at a poker night on Friday and all 9 of us got into a big argument over which was the best console that lasted for about 20 minutes our ages ranged from 19-24, but maybe our mentality hadn't gone over the age of 12.

Well, I don't own a video game console, and I root against all of them... does that count?

Have you ever owned one? Once you own a console, you're immediately a soldier in the long on going console war, whether you want to be or not.

How exactly do you root for a console, anyway? Stand in the shop waving a giant foam hand, and cheer every time someone buys one?

Have you ever owned one?

Never. And, no, I'm not cheating through someone else having technical ownership.

The fact that I completely suck at video games may have something to do with this.

How exactly do you root for a console, anyway? Stand in the shop waving a giant foam hand, and cheer every time someone buys one?

You mean you didn't?

Gee, there are some strange people in this world.

The fact that I completely suck at video games may have something to do with this.Hmm... I'm not convinced there is "suck at video games."

It's possible to suck at certain kinds of video games. Some people can't do racing games. Others can't figure out how to aim in FPS.

But there are strategy games, puzzle games, turn-based games... in which I'm at a loss to imagine how one can simply "suck," or suck so badly that one cannot enjoy playing them. Unless your brain is so badly wired you just can't play games, period--whether on a video screen or not.

Perhaps your friends just play the wrong kind of games.

Hmm... I'm not convinced there is "suck at video games."

Perhaps not.

My intention was not to suggest that I am or would be bad at every video game ever created. This is probably not the case. Rather, it was a frivolous reference to the fact that the few times I have tried playing a video game (usually under substantial pressure), I have failed at it... miserably, and to the amusement of my friends.

Rather analogous to the even fewer times I have been coerced into playing football, really.

Wii only has childish arcade games. Mario Kart FTL
It's hard to find any good games for either Xbox or 360.
PS3 is just an upgraded PS2, and you can't even play most PS1 and 2 games on it.

I have PS2 and PC, and I'm sticking with them.

LOZ: Twilight Princess, COD 3, Red Steel, the new Dragon Quest game, Resident Evil 4, etc, etc.

You'd be surprised. Though CM is only 14.

It runs in the family. My grandparents are in their sixties and still going strong. :D

I like my X-Box. The PS3 is okay and the Wii is kind of like an energetic little puppy that is great fun to play with until it starts shitting all over the carpet.

I like my X-Box. The PS3 is okay and the Wii is kind of like an energetic little puppy that is great fun to play with until it starts shitting all over the carpet.

The 360 is the dead Lab on the carpet. Guess what the puppy was shitting on? :D

The 360 is the dead Lab on the carpet. Guess what the puppy was shitting on? :D

Seriously?

This kind of attitude is what's important about which global conglomerate we get our entertainment from?

Good Lord, folks, it's not bad enough people spend countless hours in front of these things, but we gotta get pissy about which one does the best job of wasting our time?

My opinions on consoles in general notwithstanding, why not just like what you like and let others do the same? I know that's not very General of me to say, but fer cryin' out loud, unless you own stock in Sony, MS, or Nintendo, who cares? Just play, enjoy your system and get on with life.

Rather, it was a frivolous reference to the fact that the few times I have tried playing a video game (usually under substantial pressure), I have failed at it... miserably, and to the amusement of my friends.

Rather analogous to the even fewer times I have been coerced into playing football, really.I know the experience well. ;)

Though I'll venture to say it's one that passes with childhood--as, that is, one's friends grow up and/or one discovers better friends. Alas, "childhood" in this case seems to last well into the mid-twenties...

My point is, I was terrible at football as a child. And at baseball. And basketball? Forget about it. Hence it was a terrible embarrassment whenever I was cajoled or coerced into playing... and, indeed, I'd be laughed at.

For many years I avoided such things... but I do have friends who enjoy them, and they seem to have fun together playing... and, I noticed, they no longer apply the dreaded peer pressure. If they ask and I say no, that's the end of it. More importantly, if they ask and I tell them I suck, they say, "Well, who cares? Let's just have some fun." And, unlike the friends of earlier years, I can tell they really mean it.

As it turns out, under those conditions... it can be really fun to play. And as a result I've gotten better... though I do, without qualification, still completely suck. :)

For my part, I play the other side when it comes to video games: invitations, no pressure, and plenty of help along the way. (Recently I've been introducing noobs to this great little game called "Toy Home," which is so chaotic on battle mode that you hardly have to be "good" to play.)

Seriously?

This kind of attitude is what's important about which global conglomerate we get our entertainment from?

Good Lord, folks, it's not bad enough people spend countless hours in front of these things, but we gotta get pissy about which one does the best job of wasting our time?

My opinions on consoles in general notwithstanding, why not just like what you like and let others do the same? I know that's not very General of me to say, but fer cryin' out loud, unless you own stock in Sony, MS, or Nintendo, who cares? Just play, enjoy your system and get on with life.
I take it you aren't a console gamer? Consoles aren't the same as say... A DVD player. Each console is completely different, does different things, and has different games. I, for one, believe the 360 is over hyped, and the PS3 overpowered/overpriced. And what's all this with:
why not just like what you like and let others do the same?
Since when was I stopping anyone from playing/buying a PS3/Xbox 360?

I take it you aren't a console gamer? Consoles aren't the same as say... A DVD player. Each console is completely different, does different things, and has different games. I, for one, believe the 360 is over hyped, and the PS3 overpowered/overpriced.

Then why not just say that? Calling one console a "dead lab" seems far too antagonistic for what is a personal decision about where your entertainment money goes. What you believe might be relevant to others, but probably isn't.

And what's all this with:

why not just like what you like and let others do the same?

Since when was I stopping anyone from playing/buying a PS3/Xbox 360?

For fuck's sake, is it so hard to read a sentence and take it at face value? Where in that sentence do you see me saying you're stopping anyone from doing anything? How does "like what you like and let others do the same" equate to me saying you're stopping anyone from doing a damned thing? Your personal persecution complex seems to be the problem here.

Your over-the-top response to someone else's system preference was what I was talking about. It's all a lot of staring at pixels and cramping one's hands. What does it matter which corporation's pockets you fill? Some people prefer Wii, some XBox, some PS3. There's never going to be an objective way to convince any fan of any system that they've bought the wrong one. The only thing more potentially wasteful than spending 12 hours a day in front of a console is debating which console to use when doing so. Still more pointless is castigating someone for their choice.

Of course, the same could be said for the US presidential election, but that's another matter.

Seriously?

This kind of attitude is what's important about which global conglomerate we get our entertainment from?

Good Lord, folks, it's not bad enough people spend countless hours in front of these things, but we gotta get pissy about which one does the best job of wasting our time?

My opinions on consoles in general notwithstanding, why not just like what you like and let others do the same? I know that's not very General of me to say, but fer cryin' out loud, unless you own stock in Sony, MS, or Nintendo, who cares? Just play, enjoy your system and get on with life.
Seconded. And I say this as someone who enjoys many console games along with quite a number of PC games. It's silly tribalism, really.

I take it you aren't a console gamer? Consoles aren't the same as say... A DVD player. Each console is completely different, does different things, and has different games. I, for one, believe the 360 is over hyped, and the PS3 overpowered/overpriced. And what's all this with:
So? That doesn't mean you need to go acting unreasonably when it comes to your preference and which you feel is best. If you must state an opinion, at least frame it within reason, as I did.

Since when was I stopping anyone from playing/buying a PS3/Xbox 360?
Well, you weren't, but your attitude suggested people should stop.

CM, apologies, I forgot to answer your first question. I was a console gamer from Intellivision to NES to PS1 to PS2. I sold my PS2 in April of 2007 because I was spending too much time playing with it. Which is to say any time at all. I prefer playability and interest to superior graphics presentations, and couldn't see myself upgrading to the current generation. I still play UT2k4 online from my iMac, as well as Civilization IV (I was given a WoW three-months free over one summer, and I refused to renew it for the same reason I sold my PS2 -- too much of a time-suck).

If you're young and/or choose to spend the kind of time gaming demands, good for you. I don't anymore. I still like console games, I just don't own one anymore.

Though I'll venture to say it's one that passes with childhood--as, that is, one's friends grow up and/or one discovers better friends.

I'm recalling things that happened years ago, not anything particularly recent. And my friends were never particularly cruel about it; they were, and are, good-natured people. Just a bit inconsiderate sometimes.

As it turns out, under those conditions... it can be really fun to play. And as a result I've gotten better... though I do, without qualification, still completely suck. :)

Yes, I've had this experience with sports, too. When I went to Costa Rica this summer, I was gently persuaded into playing a game of soccer... and found, to my astonishment, that not only did I manage a modicum of competence (!), but I actually enjoyed it.

I still flat-out refuse to play (US) football, though. Soccer, at least I can kick, kinda-sorta.

I thought console wars was something people grew out of by the age of, say, 12.

I thpought Sony had more sense than to charge $600 for a $300 console by the age of, say, 12.

I have a 360 and I guess I sort of root for Microsoft in that I hope they do better this generation than they did in the previous one. I don't think it's the best though (whatever that means), and I certainly don't hope they "beat" Sony, as I believe the console business needs all the competition it can get.

I'm not voting in the poll, because of what I wrote above and because I intend on getting a PS3 as soon as I can afford it. I need a TV too, so it could be a while.

I thpought Sony had more sense than to charge $600 for a $300 console by the age of, say, 12.

Thank you for reinforcing Nimzonia's point. :rolleyes:

I'm planning on buying a 360 because I can afford to. Having played all 3 I like the Wii but my flatmate is buying one of those and I don't sense much difference between the PS3 and 360 except for the whole Blu Ray situation.

I thpought Sony had more sense than to charge $600 for a $300 console by the age of, say, 12.

Yeah, 'cause setting prices based on the cost of production is so immature. Sony's such a bunch of losers.

i own all 3 consoles

i own all 3 consoles

Did you sell your soul to get a Wii, or just rent it out like I did? I get mine back in the year 2017!:D

All right all you gamers on NSG, tell the truth: How many of you own the consoles you continually claim is the best? I own the Wii, and will be reading your responses in teeny eye strain-o-vision. (Computer trouble:()

I root for the Wii for the same reason that mega-genius Will Wright does. It's the only 'next-gen' console we have so far.

Though I was initially a bit anti-Wii because I'm a gaming purist and was slightly put off by the unconventional control and marketing beyond the traditional gamer market, I lived with someone who had a Wii last year and its amazing. I don't own anything newer than an N64 myself, though, as I can't afford it as a poor student.

The problem is that pure gamerism was destroyed by the over-prevalence of FPS's. College students who only play ridiculously topical, and homogenous FPS's are not gamers. Zelda is a gamer's game, thus far I haven't seen many gamer's games put out for anything but the Wii yet.

Did you sell your soul to get a Wii, or just rent it out like I did? I get mine back in the year 2017!:D

I waited for 12 hours in the freezing cold after working overtime that week, and having to work early the next morning. And it was the week after release.

Wii = greatest thing to happen to gaming since the NES.

The problem is that pure gamerism was destroyed by the over-prevalence of FPS's. College students who only play ridiculously topical, and homogenous FPS's are not gamers. Zelda is a gamer's game, thus far I haven't seen many gamer's games put out for anything but the Wii yet.
*sniff* MGS4 would be so awesome on the Wii...
I waited for 12 hours in the freezing cold after working overtime that week, and having to work early the next morning. And it was the week after release.

Wii = greatest thing to happen to gaming since the NES.
I got mine last year, by rushing to a store a few miles out and snatching the last one as soon as it came in.:wink:

ps3 is mine, wii is my sisters and 360 is my brothers. my sister is lucky since she was given the wii whereas me and my brother had to buy our own, though its only fair on my parents.
since the ps3 is mine i prefer it to the others, i also find the 360 controller somewhat bulky so i dont really like it. wii is good for parties and such, 4 way super smash brothers brawl matches are always fun

PC only. No touching the black-box heresy.

What he said. The last console I had was an NES.

I have a 360 and I guess I sort of root for Microsoft in that I hope they do better this generation than they did in the previous one. I don't think it's the best though (whatever that means), and I certainly don't hope they "beat" Sony, as I believe the console business needs all the competition it can get.

I'm not voting in the poll, because of what I wrote above and because I intend on getting a PS3 as soon as I can afford it. I need a TV too, so it could be a while.

I share this this sentiment. Although I hate the Wii cause it's games are boring.

I am a harcore PC gamer
I am more a fan of the 360's features and titles but like the PS3's blueray capacity

May hold out till xbox comes out with a blueray drive externally and buy one then

I am a harcore PC gamer
I am more a fan of the 360's features and titles but like the PS3's blueray capacity

May hold out till xbox comes out with a blueray drive externally and buy one then

A Blu-ray drive for 360 is unlikely, and it would never be used for games. If it's movies you want it for, a standalone player would be a smarter choice.

A Blu-ray drive for 360 is unlikely, and it would never be used for games. If it's movies you want it for, a standalone player would be a smarter choice.

We will see I have have a moth till I order the new TV ... either way I have a PC with a Bluray (and HDDVD) burner with HDMI output so perfectly content to sit and observe the market

Yes, I root for the N64, own, and play one. Why is that not on your poll?