Benjo

Pornosaur

@DustoMan: Technically, the PS3 controllers are pre-last-gen, as they haven't changed much from the PS1 days :-)

@Pornosaur: To get around the USB WiFi restriction, you could buy a cheap WiFi router, connect it to your WiFi network and then share the network through its Ethernet port, and connect *that* to the 360. Ugly, but it should work.

@chantastic: Try playing Wii Sports with a bunch of friends. Mario Galaxy actually did sell Wii. And you're most definitely doing something horribly wrong if you have to constantly move the Sensor Bar.

L_K_M

Please, allow me to cry a little.

Anarchist_Gamer

Then again my first response didn't have to be either.

Lol.

turkeyfunk

Raynre

Wii Sports is interesting and cute but hardly compelling. Even when I try to look at it from the perspective of some average joe it just seems lame. Super Mario Galaxy is a tremendously good game but its not driving Wii sales. Neither is Metroid Prime 3 or for that matter any of the "gamer's games". Crud like Wii Sports and Wii Play is. The Remote is all finicky and I have to constantly move the sensor bar depending on where the person using the system is sitting.

Making a Mii is a blast and the different channels are polished and gorgeous (even though they are totally vapid - come on, Everybody Votes?) but thats not worth $250. Even as a casual gaming system I do not really see the point of the Wii.

chantastic

Mongoosekun

But how should other companies make great software instead of being greedy when even Nintendo itself can't. While games like MP3 Corruption or Mario Galaxy are great, the updates for the console and the various channels aren't... And don't let me talk about online features and friend codes...

PiWi

So they sold ... 17 of them?

Nately

dragon_rocks

It's a good console, make some good games now that it's in people's hands, darn you.

phinehas

darthpoontang

And 17 Wiis sold per second. Not too bad. Even if it had been 1 Wii every 17 seconds it would have been a fast selling machine. (Meanwhile here in Germany there are towers of Wii-consoles in the stores).

PiWi

dLo

@turkeyfunk:
I sign my name cause I like to piss people like you off, no I sign it cause i like to sign everything I write, if you have problem with that that's your problem.

-WPack911 (Oh no I did it again. *gasp*)

WPack911

Some notable 2008 360 games not available on other consoles:

Kingdom Under Fire
World in Conflict
Lost Odyssey
Left 4 Dead
Spinter Cell
Fable 2
Alan Wake
APB (the new game from the Crackdown guys)
Ninja Gaiden 2
Too Human
Banjo 3
Halo Wars
Castle Crashers

And again, that's not counting any of the great 2008 multi-console games like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, R6: Vegas 2, etc.

I'm certainly not trying to imply that the Wii or PS3 won't have great games only available to console users on those consoles, I'm just saying it's crazy to think the 360 doesn't have a great list of games to play in 2008.

Bishmon

Damn; The Gamecube outsold The 360 elite and the 360 pro bundles! Xbox 360 arcade was nowhere to be found on Amazons list.

PS

THE PS3 OUTSOLD THE XBOX 360 WORLDWIDE FOR THE WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 22!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

darthpoontang

DaiMacculate

turkeyfunk

nya-chama

DaiMacculate

P.S
Oh, and check right now, DS crimson and black overtook the PSP

nya-chama

Umm, if they had "no stock" then why are so many of the DS model's listed in this best selling list on the 3rd page? I like the DS more then the PSP FYI. I don't even own a PSP yet, but it sold well and so did the PS3, so Sony did well on Amazon this holiday bottom line, weather you like it or not it's true.

-WPack911

WPack911

Qbanboi

Kokuryukai

Those are just the exclusives I can think of at the moment.

-WPack911

WPack911

Pornosaur

TOCATL

nya-chama

nya-chama

At least up to this summer the only wireless network option available that wasn't a network cable to wireless adapter piece of hardware was the "Offical" 360 wireless adapter. I haven't heard of any success stories plugging a usb wireless adapter into a 360 after that. I picked one up this summer just to stream vid content on my other xbox 360 to the tv room. So far so good, but yeah it was probably an on purpose oversight by Microsoft to not include "wireless" access in-box. It's really my 2nd major gripe about the system besides the obvious hard drive gouging.

Pornosaur

DustoMan

DustoMan

Grand Theft Auto
Lost Odyssey
Devil May Cry
Last Remnant
Silent Hill

Just off the top of my head.

Lackshmana

Either way though in addition to PSP2k being way ahead of any DS model, both the 80 Gig PS3 pack (15) and 40 Gig PS3 pack (32) are both ahead of the top selling Xbox 360 console, that being the elite bundle at 35 on the list. Those no way to really spin the fact that Sony did pretty solid indeed and better then MS, at least on Amazon.

-WPack911

WPack911

What I don't understand is why people buy the XBOX360 wireless network adapter (it's at no.18)? It's $89.99! Doesn't it work with other usb wifi adapter? the overall cost of buying XBOX360 with the XBOX360 wifi adapter would make the XBOX360 a bit more pricey compared to PS3... (I'm assuming that no XBOX360 have built-in wifi.. I could be wrong though..).

Rurouni

Pornosaur

DefHamster

I'm happy the Wii is doing so well, in all due hoenstly. I don't like how both Microsoft and Sony do buissness, and the fact that the "fun" console is winning, really shows how both "buissness models" are flawed. They "work" of course, but not as well as the Big N's model.

Of course, the "real" test comes up this '08. If the Wii keeps its success the next year... well, there's no other way around it: The Big N is back, :)

El Cernex

cernex

What those 4 models summed up to you can't tell though.

Volante3192

finder39

darkslide

DaiMacculate

Kokuryukai

Somebody sell me on a good, playable portable basketball game for PSP...please. That would justify it right there.

@Flanker: So, no Wii Browser, No VC, no nothing for a month? That is a little depressing, just in general to have a console lying around like that. Its like the poor little silver gamecube on my shelf, which I'll never sell because of its awesome GBA player attachment, but most of the time I'm just playing GBA games so they go in the DS. Once in awhile I'll hanker for some old school GB Pipe Dream/Tetris or to play FFVI on my 46 inch DLP, scaling blur be damned, so there lies the GC, just waiting.

DaiMacculate

qbix

Krondonian

Ergophobia

Flanker

silkylove

Though I think these stats might be a mess because if they list all the different iterations of the 360 and PS3 separately it'll be hard to immediately gleam overall rankings.

sirsri

Patient

-WPack911

WPack911

Sugarbloodsuckers