If GT5 isn't out within the the next few months, it won't even matter. Any developer who needs to pay staff has to develop on the 360 - PS3 exclusives are over.

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Some people are just simply too stupid to live. As if it's such an impossibility to enjoy the PS3 or the exclusives that it offers.

i know quite a few people that love the Wii. Personally, I don't. I saw great potential in it early on and after two years, i see Nintendo despite their rants to the contrary, are not interested in pushing that potential. The sad part is, it wouldn't even be expensive to implement.

The PS3 is not the problem, Sony's marketing is. Their marketing department has to be the dumbest bunch of losers to ever work and breathe in gaming. All of the bullet points that make the PS3 the machine it is (comparable in some cases, better than the 360 in others) are hardly ever advertised. The show reels that feature PS3 games are usually lackluster ignoring the best the console has to offer. It's pathetic. If I had a dollar for each person that look at me dumbfounded when I tell them what I've done with my PS3...followed by the usual "I didn't know it could do all that" I'd never have to work again.

If this generation will be remembered for anything, it will be the total stupidity of people that are supposed to be professionals in the field. This is in regards to all three consoles and their respective companies. Nintendo gets by because Wii is so successful. But what Nintendo doesn't seem to care about, is they didn't just alienate the hardcore that didn't give a shit about them in the first place. They alienated long time fans that stood by them when no one else would. That is unforgivable.

Developers that outright refuse to take development on a platform seriously even after fans are screaming for it AND the platform in question is clearly the most dominant. Developers that still can't understand the concept of Q&A and playtesting and debugging.

Developers that refuse to give gamers choices in how they want to play their games (can we get some goddamn mouse and keyboard support?)

Sure, we have superior technology and infrastructure, even in our portables. But look at what the industry has become. Look at what it's becoming. It's sad.

Nintendo pissed on long term fans and haters alike to go to green pastures to sell to a ignorant fanbase with an inferior console with last gen technology in it.

Sony is trying to sell a machine at a premium that has technology in it that the majority of gamers just simply don't "get" and trying to convince them that they need it. Better luck trying to sale surface to air missles to savages.

MS got away like bandits selling a console that's flatout busted. Rushed to market and is known and reported to die and die often.

This has truly been a pathetic generation so far.

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Playstation proved it could greatly innovate and make Nintendo eat dust because its game library included games with much more interesting ans substantial games in spite of the limits.

I have to admit this generation Sony hasn't innovated that much, its innovation could be easily qualified as poor, mediocre or a simple continuation of PS2 ideas with the implementation of HD and online gaming. The loose of key partners (Capcom,Rocktar games, Square-enix, look how many PSP's FF dissidia moved), dissapointing exclusives (Lair, Haze).

Incredibly Sony's biggest enemy unlike what most people think is not Xbox 360 or Nintendo Wii, it's itself with the ego Sony acquired during PS2 era and thought its victory was guaranteed , that's why didn't make much trying to keep its excellent relationships with its partners plus PS3 marketing was not effective enough provoking skinny unit sales forcing developers to make nearly every game multiplatform. Sony financial status cannot be trusted anymore, last NPD numbers proves it. It's sad and a total shame but it's true and Microsoft has definetely its own merits and they have to be applauded. It was a clean fight, no matter how rich Microsoft is.

More importanly PS3 could not be compared even with Gamecube from my point of view, its financial and marketing strategies are more Sega Saturn like. With its colossal financial looses and hard to develop platform (expensive) because of its experimental hardware architecture (CELL), subpar multiplatform results, scarce first party quality content and exclusives makes the PS3 a premature looser. So sad but so true.

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I couldn't justify buying one to be honest, $400 is a lot of cash, and it's just too much for me to drop on a system with only a handful of incentive when I've already got a 360 which I'm happy enough with.

Between various download services and only owning one HDTV, blu-ray has no appeal for me. Their exclusive games have been amazing, but not enough to warrant the purchase of a SECOND console...well third, but my Wii really just is used for a single game and was purchased as a novelty and on impulse just as Nintendo wanted.

I just wish they'd snag some exclusive RPGs or third person action games. I've got Infamous and White Knight Chronicles to look forward too I guess, but what I really wish I could be playing is Ico, Devil May Cry 1, Persona 3/4, Katamari, and any number of my old PS2 games. Every single PS2 can play PS1 games, and so it was built on the install base OF the PS1, and while the PS3 started on that, the removal, and now the only way to get one through second-hand sales, is disappointing in the very least.

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No. Just no. Sony's strategy was NEVER sound. Selling elite consoles at elite prices has NEVER worked. And you say "suddenly" hostile to high prices? Does anyone remember the crickets that chirped when sony announced the PS3 would launch at $599? People have been hostile to high prices ever since launch. This "suddenly" stuff is pure fluff. Sony is trying to blame the economy for the botchjob they did on the PS3. It's just unfortunate because the PS3 deserves better. It's a solid machine and if they hadn't overengineered it in the first place they wouldn't have to cut so many features to get costs under control. I mean seriously. Dual HDMI? 3 Gig Ethernet ports? 4 USB? A multiformat card reader? What were they thinking? The PS3 as it exists today is what they should have built to begin with. (although they should put BC back in of course).

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What 360 does have is word-of-mouth. I have found my friends who own 360s to be a lot more vocal and anti-ps3 than ps3 owners who are anti-360, or even just favor ps3. I hear friends who say, "Oh, you should buy a 360 so we can be friends and play Gears of War online", or "Man, I love streaming movies from Netflix through my 360", etc. Forgetting of course that you need to pay extra for the Live account, and a wi-fi adapter in case you don't have an ethernet cord available. Not to mention that i think the NXE is totally bunk compared to the PSN.

I don't know, don't hate me, that's just my .02

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I'm feeling like the 360 is the console for me right now and really want to buy one. But I know the PS3 will be the better investment and I'll realize that down the line.

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There was almost nothing left for the 360. I think I saw *one* controller and a few remote controls and a couple of keypads.

Heck, even the Blu-Rays had hardly been touched.

Granted, they didn't have any PS3 systems left, but the fact that there was a giant stack of PS3 guitars with nary a 360 guitar in sight says something.

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