So far I'm finding all of them but the Xbox 360 to suck pretty hard. And the Xbox isn't far off of it, and the only reason it's not in the crappy group is because it's been out longer.
PS3 has ONE exclusive game coming that I even remotely look forward to, and that's Metal Gear Solid 4.
The Wii has some interesting looking franchises on it, since you know, it's nintendo, but quite honestly, the thing just angers me. It has great appeal to most everyone because parents with the paranoia about childhood obesity buy it for their kids so they'll at least wave their arms about while they sit around rotting their brains, not to mention the thing is cheaper, and Nintendo seems to actually have the brains to keep people decently well supplied with the thing. Nintendo has had the best launch out of any of the recent systems (rivaled closely by [quite surprisingly] the original xbox launch, who knew?) in terms of hardware sales, and I respect them for it. Not that I ever want to touch the Wii. What I've heard about every damn game anybody I know how played on it is 'tacked on'. Why am I waving my arms about? Sure you can aim by pointing at the screen, and this puts you in the game, but honestly? If I wanted that I'd roll down to the arcade, and play some damn Time Crisis, because that thing actually HAS a gun rather than something that feels like a slippery remote control that I'm apparently pretending is all sorts of various weaponry.
The Xbox has some interesting points for it. For one, the Arcade. Numerous cheap fun little distraction games are right up my alley, not to mention they released Worms, Castlevania, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. That's amazingly badass. I admit I haven't exactly looked at Wii's virtual console offerings, but to be honest, I'm more impressed with Microsoft popping out things that are new, and when they pop out something old, they make sure it's one of the best old things that existed. (btw I know Sony's little PS1 game selection is pretty terrible so I won't even bother) Aside from Arcade, the marketplace is a pretty shameful bid for money, making you buy points in 1000 increments abouts so you HAVE to have some left-over to have waste your money is pretty lame. Now onto the games... I like Gears of War, the game amuses me, looks great, and has a chainsaw bayonet. It also hasn't really gotten old. Armored Core 4 is great because you know, I've played every other Armored Core game through to the end, and that alone means I'm pretty hardcore at those games (despite it being 'number 4' it's somewhere around the 12th). Oh and it's better for Xbox considering I like the Xbox Live setup and the fact that I can talk to people is quite nice. Let's see... Well, I've heard other games were good but haven't really played them.
Like I said. The Xbox 360's got like one actual point I hold above the other two, and that's the Arcade. Other than that, I hate the wii because the concept is dumb, and the PS3 is about as expensive as plutonium. Not to mention, who the hell needs a Blu-Ray player right this instant? Wait until they're NOT $1000 each, then maybe consider upgrading your movie 'experience' to HD.
