Should You Wait For The PS3?

News for nerds writes "Though Xbox 360 is launching tomorrow in the U.S. to usher the next-generation of game consoles, the champion of the current generation has been quiet... until now. From the CNN Money article with words from Sony's CEO, Sir Howard Stringer: 'Sir Howard said the PS3 will sell for $300 to $400 and will come with a bundle of games, movies, and TV shows, many of which Sony also makes. The question is whether the titles will be bundled on Blu-ray DVD discs or on a built-in hard drive.'" Update: 11/22 22:22 GMT by Z : Chris Morris over at CNN emailed to let us know that there have been signifiCant changes to the story since it was originally posted.

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PS3

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I have an Xbox, when I go to my local BestBuy there are three times as many games for the Playstation. There are some really cool games for Playstation that just aren't available for Xbox. I just purchased a PS2 for my son;-), and will get a P3 when avail.

If Xbox 360 has some really cool games that I really want to play then sure I'll get a 360, until then PS all the way.

The whole Sony/Microsoft whose worse just doesn't matter to me, as it probably doesn't matter to the %99.99 that aren't registered to slashdot.

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All About the Games

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To be honest, I don't give a rats ass about tech specs anymore. It's all about the games.

With the last generation, I picked up a PS2 and a Gamecube (not at the same time mind you). I had friends with XBoxen, and they had some decent games, but nothing that was exclusive that would make me go and spend more money on hardware to play. And the PS2 and GC had titles that I had wanted to play more.

This generation, I'm waiting. I might pick up the YBox, I might not. Ditto for the PS3, or the Revo. All three sound good, sound like they've got some pretty impressive specs and design philosphies all around. But I'm going to wait until the PS3 comes out to see how the games play on it, and see which of the first two I'm going to go for. Not to discount the Revo of course.

But I'll base my decisions on how developers use the new hardware to do something interesting, because I don't care to play yet another console FPS or RPG unless it's different, and not just in the better graphics department.

Re:Another way of posing the question...

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You're right on about MS being just as bad. People tend to forget that MS doesn't *need* a rootkit. Windows is its own rootkit, when you're the one writing the OS!

That said, though, Sony was very wrong for releasing such a nasty piece of software. If I put a CD in my machine and it installs spyware, I'm going to be PISSED.

As for being a hypocrite, though, it's really unavoidable. The world is too complex to always behave consistently, and nobody has time to keep track of every issue even within their own specialty. Boycotts can be powerful, but they have to be focused in order to make a difference -- and that may mean putting on the blinders to other issues.

Me? I'm boycotting the 360 (fat difference it'll make, though) but I'm reserving judgement on the PS3 until we get closer to the release. Not because I like Sony, but because I've got more current (and arguably much more important) issues to concern myself with. I'm not "allied" with a company if I buy a said company's product even though I disagree with their business practices. Such an action may be hypocritical, but it's due to my own inability to be perfect rather than some kind of evil pact. I don't have an infinite amout of time to make sure that all of my actions are perfectly consistent. Nobody does -- we all have to pick our battles.