Which is your favourite gaming console?

[Turing_Gamer]

Choose your console! REMEMBER: It doesn't have to be a console you already own.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Ah, Turing_Gamer: Making topics that will divide people.

PS: GO PC!! (We're number three! We're number three!)

[Alexmula]

game boy color

[Superskull85]

I voted for the PS3. For me, it offers a lot more all-in-one features. It lets me play currently hyped games, interact with a network where I can buy my games, allows me to communicate with other games via PlayStation Home, interacts with my PSP and provides online gaming services to it via adhoc party, allows me to play older games on the PS1 and PS2 (older versions of PS3 only) and it gives me a central storage area for all my PS1 and PSP games (downloaded from the PlayStation Store).

Apart from the gaming related features I can also watch any modern movie, play music and view photos, install Linux, stay up-to-date with select news via Life with PlayStation, and more.

Being a university student that travels between home and school during weekends and breaks, the PS3 offers me a lot less hassle while moving, and saves a lot of space on my desk (compared to what could take up my desk space).

I'm not saying that the PS3 is the best console, nor am I saying that I do use other consoles to play games on (in fact I have used all of the consoles listed), but it is the best for because of all the functionality it offers.

I paid $500 for my system and it does everything I would need it to do. Not a bad price to pay in my opinion.

[Turing_Gamer]

How much memory on PS3, Superskull85?
@Everyone: I can't decide which console to choose. They are all so unique and entertaining...

[Superskull85]

Turing_Gamer @ Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:03 pm wrote:

How much memory on PS3, Superskull85?
@Everyone: I can't decide which console to choose. They are all so unique and entertaining...

I don't know the PS3 specs that well, so I will forward you to the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS3_Hardware

What I forgot to mention about the PS3 is that you can replace the hard disk with most laptop suitable hard disks. You can also stream in media from a media server, or attach external storage via its USB ports.

In the future all three current generation consoles will have a motion controller. The PS3 with the "Arc" controller, the XBox 360 with Natal and the Wii with its system. It will be interesting to see how console gaming will change if any average person will be able to pick up any console and any game, and make a decent attempt at playing the game as the controls would be more natural. It works for the Wii, so why not other consoles as well?

[Insectoid]

Well how come Macs aren't in the list? I play almost exclusively on my macbook. Sure, there aren't a lot of games, and half of those are run in a windows emulation, but still! I demand a mac option!

[rdrake]

Insectoid @ Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:25 pm wrote:

Well how come Macs aren't in the list? I play almost exclusively on my macbook. Sure, there aren't a lot of games, and half of those are run in a windows emulation, but still! I demand a mac option!

Fine...

[andrew.]

Well Steam is being released for Mac later this year along with ports of Portal, Half Life 2, and others. So it makes sense to have a Mac option.

[revangrey]

I will choose 360 because my PC does not suffice when friends are over...

[saltpro15]

yeah, PC gaming is great... if you have no friends

I < 3 my xbox 360, xbox live is definitely worth the $59.99 a year if you want to play against competitive gamers! I find people on the Wii/PS3 have much lower skill levels than on xbox. just my opinion though

[DtY]

Sega Genesis, followed by Dreamcast.

So much better than this new stuff

[DemonWasp]

@saltpro: So Steam's Community and Friends, in-game services, and friends matching are all for people with no friends, eh?

I would agree that xboxes are easier to set up for multiple people, but the experience playing on your own machine (with a correspondingly better screen / speakers / input devices) is preferable. I've had both XBox and PC LAN parties, and while the XBox ones are plenty of fun, I find it difficult to see what my character is doing, and irritating that I can only hear audio from the other side of the map since I'm not player 1.

Plus, the competitive gamers are primarily found on the PC. Want to play against someone ridiculously skilled? Go play some Quake 3 Arena against the pros and tell me how that works out for you.

[andrew.]

DemonWasp @ Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:15 pm wrote:

Plus, the competitive gamers are primarily found on the PC. Want to play against someone ridiculously skilled? Go play some Quake 3 Arena against the pros and tell me how that works out for you.

Oh I've done that...didn't turn out too well....

[Turing_Gamer]

Go to quake live instead of quake arena
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