Picking Sides In the Console War

If you're having trouble picking, the reviews are beginning to come in for the PlayStation 3 and the Wii. Chris Morris at CNN offers an analysis of the Wii launch games and some frustrations about the PlayStation 3. Chris Kohler at C|Net offers a side by side comparison of both systems ... and some frustrations about the PS3 controller. Finally, 1up offers a look back at Sony's launches, and a similar look back at Nintendo's launches in an effort to judge how the weekend will go.

Comments

Sides?

[Kamineko]

What is this with 'sides'?

Don't pick sides, pick games.

Everything else will follow from there.

Electronic voting

[whoop]

Pick your side in the Console War 2006:
  ( ) XBox 360
  ( ) Playstation 3
  (X) Wii
 
Thank you. The current tally is:
  0 XBox 360
  1 Playstation 3
  0 Wii

?

Kids, PLEASE buy a Wii, 360 or PS3 today =)

[dryriver]

With the FPS kiddies and casual gaming boobs migrating off the PC platform, PC gaming may actually go back to the more complex, cerebral, mature games we used to be able to buy.

customers and editors clearly have diferent values

[theStorminMormon]

Check out the CNet comparison. Look at the rankings from the editors vs. from the readers. Whoops, just noticed the article actually links to Wired when it says it links to CNet. No matter, here's the CNet side by side comparison: http://reviews.cnet.com/4321-6464_7-6551960.html?t ag=cnetfd.mt

Here's how the editors ranked the systems:

1. PS3 (8.8) 2. Xbox 360 (8.4) 3. Wii (8.2)

Here's how the readers ranked the systems:

1. Wii (8.0) 2. Xbox 360 (7.5) 3. PS3 (7.1)

Aside from the full one-point "grade inflation" the readers ranked the systems in exactly the opposite order that the editors did. Is this because the editors are playing on machines they didn't pay for? And with HDTV equipment most users don't have? Is it perhaps related to the relative advertising might these companies are flexing at CNet? Are CNet gamers more casual and fun-oriented compared to more hardcore CNet editors?

Whatever's going on, it looks interesting to me.

-stormin (shameless self-promotion, I covered this discrepancy in my blog yesterday: http://kiriath-arba.blogspot.com/2006/11/editors-v s-gamers.html)