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I would still recommend the PS3. The control the end user has over the settings with the PS3 is far and away beyond anything offered by other consoles so customizing it to fit hard wire internet and an SDTV is a snap.

Also, at some point your friend’s TV will be upgraded. But he can keep the PS3 as it is a console that will evolve with his choice. When he is ready to step up his game the PS3 will be waiting.

Talk about being delusional The Sony article is 100% correct. All these frikkin haters and 360 fanboys are shaking in their boots and are green with envy. All they have left, is cling on to a delusional world where the 360 is the king. The reality however is far from it. 360 doesn’t have games now, doesn’t have games this year. And wont have games the following years either. One look at their studios and you know. PS3 reigns supreme for years to come. But the fanboys are living in delusional planet. And they don’t like it when we rub it in their faces. We have the best of every genre. They have to settle with inferior titles. But still they think they are best. LOLOLOLOLOLOL.

Plus there is a need to point out this 360 fanboys closing statement of having a PS3 die on him and the “Crap Quality” of the hardware… Pot meet kettle. Damn.

Some people like GTAIV looks on the PS3 better because the edges are blurred. Thats not an advantage overall, its the natural blurry stuff the PS3 shows in every game. In fact its a weakness.

Still it stands: the resolution on the 360 is HD, PS3 is sub HD.

PS3:

GTAIV 640p, SFIV 630p, Haze 576p (yes the PS3 Halo killer nah?), The Darkness 576p…

And what about Sony saying only 1080p is true HD gaming? The lie about Motorstorm?

All the exclusives of the PS3 can be done on the 360, except maybe the MGS4 BluRay movie because of the endless cutscenes, that would make 3 DL-DVD’s which would be a bit too much. But the rest, KZ2, everything can be done on the 360. Whats your point exactly?

The 360 can do 1080p just as good, native. But the sweet spot this gen is on 720p. Thats also what Sony shows, having Motorstorm put in 720p. That was just marketingblabla true hd meh meh

Which first party game on the PS3 has 1080p? Standard would be if 90% of all games has it. Let me sum it up for you (games I own). 1st party and some 3rd party but exclusive

MGS4, LBP, Motorstorm 2, KZ2, Uncharted… All 720p. Only the dull games are 1080p because they don’t lean to heavy on the system. My PS3 died after 3 weeks of use on the BluRay. Have never seen a system dying that quick in all the years I buy consoles. Utter crap quality

I dont’ understand dudes/dudettes
When people who only have an xbox 360 see stuff like this how can’t they feel there’s something wrong with their online gaming experiences on the 360? … and they’re actually paying for it? That’s just madness.

When was the last time the 360 fanbase got excited about an up coming exclusive game? Weather it be a downloadable game, an online only game or a full disc game.

The last I could remember was last year for Geow2 but this year there hasn’t been one game to solidly hold onto so far. You may mention Alan Wake but nothing solids been shown to the community on this game and it’s one that was supposed to come out years ago.

No new exclusives at all to talk about on the 360 but on the PS3 we see games that the PS3 fanbase are excited about and anticipating like Fat Princess, Uncharted2, Infamous, DC online, Killzone 2, MAG etc etc in so many genres and mediums.

I’m just wondering, if you don’t’ have a current gen system, why would you want to go out and buy a 360 at this point in time? Hell, why would you want to only own a 360 in the first place - it has no games to speak of. Every single game it has you can get on some other gaming platform so… what’s the point? No seriously, I want to know and be educated on this.

cod4 killed gaylo in gameplay
wii fit killed gaylo in sales
kz2 buried gaylo

the only people playing gaylo 3 are 12 year olds how did not have the money to buy cod4 in 2007.. scratch that, their moms did not have enough hooker money at that time

I just don’t understand the PoS3 fanboys comments. I own both systems and it is clear to me that the architecture of the 2 systems is so different that if the game is not built on the PoS3 that it will be inferior. I can’t see why we constantly have to hear about games that are over a year old, “what about Uncharted and MGS4″ thats all I hear. I mean who is still playing these games. Stop complaining on this site all day and use your time to go cut lawns or shovel snow to get some money up and buy a XBOX. Get out of mom’s basement andask for that over due raise at Subway so you can buy another system. Or just stop complaining about your inferior system and go watch a Blu-Ray movie with it. Or how about trying some party chat on the PSN.

Gamespot: Unsure if you’re a fanboy? The following editorial is an actual test to determine if you are a fanboy. Read the article from start to finish and by the end I guarantee you will know if you are a game console fanboy.

The user submitted gaming media these days consist of 90% fanboy babble stating the same points over and over again. I view video games as an art and I enjoy debating the merits and flaws of certain games but regardless of what I write people turn it into a console attack session. Nothing is heard over the din but “the PS3 is terrible” or in the correct Internet colloquiums “PS3 suxxors lol”.

I could go on about how “it is really about the games” or something as almost as cliché as the fanboy talking points but I would rather look at the psychology of fanboyism. Why? Well I think we can learn a lot and apply the same science to how people get overly emotional and irrational about other things like sports, religious affiliation, nationality, ethnic backgrounds, and politics. Choosing sides on the console wars is nothing more than becoming part of a group. Unfortunately when human beings become a member of a group, they feel the need to hate the people outside of their group. It must be genetic because since the beginning of time wars have been fought over small differences in groups of people who will oddly band together in a few short years to fight people with slightly larger differences. Looking back at history it is amazing the human race still exists.

Blind Allegiance and Spin

To be a proper fanboy no matter how many times your gaming system screws you, you need to focus on the positive. We have all read the comments by the Xbox fanboy that had a 360 with the red ring of death four times but he will talk about how great the customer service is and that it’s all free. No wireless Rock Band controller but the PS3 gets one? The wired one is better because it feels more like a real guitar. If the Xbox burned down a fanboy’s house, he would talk about it really gave his family a chance to get a new house and that the PS3 sucks because it doesn’t have the burn down your house feature.

Obsession with Sales Charts

As a corporate slave, I get called into meetings where I have to look at sales charts despite being a computer programmer. I find the meaningless numbers and graphs mind numbingly boring. Maybe if I really felt like the corporation that employs me really cared about me (it doesn’t), I would care about the corporate sales charts. That is why I find it curious that some people care about a console maker’s sales chart when that corporation doesn’t think twice about bleeding them dry for money.

I guess it is like it is some kind of a sport to these people where the sales chart is the score. If your console sales are higher, your team is winning. These people track the trading of corporate executives like they were the third baseman from the Yankees. If you actually worked for a corporation, you would know that people at the top really have very little impact into the final product. These people sit in meetings where the topic of discussion isn’t on making better games but how to make a profit out of milking kids dry.

Fanboys seem to spend hours of their lives fighting for their corporation. Maybe that is why they feel that they are part of the corporate team. They should unionize and actually demand compensation instead having to pay $600 to work for marketing. In reality most of their work is read by people who already picked a favorite corporation. It is really irrelevant because the majority of systems are bought by soccer moms because it is on sale.

Always Looking to Debate

It doesn’t matter what the news article is about - it is somehow related to the console wars. The article could be about kids learning from video games in school and the Xbox fanboy will post a comment, I am sure he thinks is funny, like “they probably can’t learn anything when it is only displaying 30fps”. If there aren’t any opposing fanboys just make up something they might say and debate it with your self.

Collecting Dust/Echo Chamber

The fanboy will often talk about consoles they have never really owned or spent a significant amount of time with. Fanboys just repeat talking points over and over despite never having any clue. I naively believed that the PSP was slow to load games because I have heard from fanboys 1000 times. After purchasing seven different games for the PSP, I haven’t come across the unbearably slow load time. I am sure there was some early sports game with a minute load time but it doesn’t seem to reflect anything I have seen yet. The PSP does have actual flaws that are never mentioned in fanboy talking points. (I will have to have a future editorial on the reality of the PSP.)

The other set of fanboys always mention how their unfavored console is “collecting dust”. If I paid $250+ for a console I never played, I would be really quiet about it. This just says “I am a moron with money to burn.” Even if you say you sold it on Ebay after a month you still look like a moron.

Selective Facts and Complete Irrationality

It doesn’t matter if the Xbox’s games sales in Japan are less than the Atari Jaguar, if the Wii out sells the PS3, the Xbox fanboy is ecstatic. Just talk about how “360 pwned PS3″ even if the news article doesn’t really say that.

Steven Colbert’s character is genius. He totally captured the guy who wants to believe his point of view despite any relation to the actual facts or logic. Fanboys act the same way. It doesn’t matter if the chances of God of War 3 coming to the Xbox 360 are less than zero, this guy heard it on a forum so it must be true. To quote the great philsopher Steven Colbert:

Keep your facts, I’m going with the truth.

“No Good Games”

A typical fanboy always talks about how there are “no good games” on the enemy system. I think looking at any critic aggregator site would prove otherwise for all of the systems. In reality the fanboy really means to say is - “there are no good games in my limited genres I play.” Here is the fanboy translation guide:

Wii - I don’t like games that have different controls.
360 - I don’t like shooters and driving games.
PS3 - I like my versions of the same games to have worthless achievement points.
PSP - I really never play portable games
DS - I am worried about people not thinking I am a man for playing cutesy games.

Paranoia

Somehow negative things about your console are really the fault of the competing corporations. The reason the directional pad on the Xbox is unusable is because all of the patents are held by the competitors. Really? How is it possible that all of these third party controllers have completely usable directional pads? How many times have you heard that the Dreamcast died because of the inflated talk of Sony executives before the PS2 came out? Seriously?

Bad News is Good News

If the PS3 has some bad news, it must be good news to the Xbox fanboy. I guess the games on the Xbox get better if a PS3 exclusive game comes out and is terrible. The thinking is that if the competing consoles dies the Xbox will become a better system without competition. Because history has proven when Microsoft kills the competition, that’s when the real innovation starts. It is kinda funny because I writing this on Windows which has a new looking interface every three years but still “works” the same way every $200. Xbox fanboys are happy to pay for over priced micro-transactions now, but I wonder if they still don’t mind when something, that should have been in the original game, are even higher in the absence of competition?

Character Assassination

If you are stuck in a corner about how to defend your console, your last line of defense is to just start attacking the person who slighted your console. It changes the subject and you never have to say anything remotely to the point. They must be wrong if their icon, name, grammar or previous comments were stupid. If it was some corporate executive, just bring up that corporation’s negative history going back to 1950.

There is a reason I have no images or any kind of descriptions of myself here. It’s because when people don’t like your point, they rip apart anything about you instead of countering your point with reason. I guess it is easier. The only thing I have here on Gamespot is previous gaming ratings and people have commented that my opinion is wrong because only stupid people would give Black a 9.0.

I really don’t see an end to the fanboys upsetting themselves on the Internet fighting the great console war. I suppose it is harmless because they almost never take it into the real world with exception of this kid. I guess if they didn’t do it they would be fighting over worse subjects like politics or religion. It is still better than being one of those annoying Yankee fans.

Source - Gamespot

500,000 sales is certainly nothing to sneeze at, although given its status by the SDF as the next “Just-wait-until” PS3 game, there’s got to be many a Sony fanboy crying into his Mountain Dew seeing that number.