The PS3

[Dreddz]

I would imagine it offers pretty much the same as any other console.

For about $200 more. :smash:

Once you buy all the necessary addons for a 360, it works out about the same. And the Wii... well... it's several hundred bucks less... and it shows.

I guess someone neglected to mention this to me, because the only "addons" I've bought are Xbox Live, which is a cheap 50 bucks a year, and a play and charge kit, which I did without easily for six months.

Add a HD-DVD drive onto it, and it works out about the same.

Microsoft arent forcing you to get all this additional stuff though, which is a good thing if you dont have a HD TV etc.....

[Madame Adequate]

All PS3's can play multi-national games.

That means multi-region dvds too, right?

Sadly not, as far as I know. DVDs will be regional, although not the same regions as they normally are. Or something. Anyway point is transnational movie companies are morons.

Add a HD-DVD drive onto it, and it works out about the same.

Microsoft arent forcing you to get all this additional stuff though, which is a good thing if you dont have a HD TV etc.....

Fair to say, I shouldn't have included "necessary". But it really does look like HDTV is the way the industry is going, so it'll probably become ubiquitous, if not necessary, over the next few years.

[Araciel]

yeah if you don't think HDTV is mandatory, look at dead rising for xbox360....i play it on my 32 inch CRT and i can't make out any of the in-game messages such as character speech on my screen without popping my eyes out of my skull

[fantasyjunkie]

Yeah, but people are slowly going for HDTV nowadays.

[Samuraid]

Eventually people won't have a choice.

[Yamaneko]

SDTVs will be around and popular enough to warrant production well past the next console generation.

Not everyone wants a Blu-ray or HD-DVD drive. Sony is pushing the Blu-ray drives on the consumer hoping it will kill of the HD-DVD format.

Blu-ray movies are still encoded by region.

[JKTrix]

Read

http://articles.gaminghorizon.com/me...035888.88.html

[Mirage]

I read it, what's the point of it? It's just a bunch of opinions that we've all heard a dozen times before.

[JKTrix]

I don't think we've 'all' heard. These threads keep popping up, and people do keep saying the same stuff.

Perhaps new threads like this should just post that link and lock it.

[Captain Maxx Power]

PC > Any other console out there. The sooner y'all learn that the better.

[JKTrix]

Then there's that redundant argument

PCs are different.

[Mirage]

PC > Any other console out there. The sooner y'all learn that the better. :D

Yeah, too bad the games I want aren't avaliable for the PC.

[Yew-Yevon]

PC=360 but with less Sony hatred

[Mirage]

Let me be more spesific then. x86 Win32 computer.

[Yew-Yevon]

Both PC and 360 are pirat machines...so you could get any game you wanted. It just wouldn't run right. :P