The Console War

The console war has been going on for so long now and over what? Isn't suppose to be about the games? A lot of people tend to forget about that. I remember back in the day with Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision and all that stuff you never heard anyone talking about how one console was "better" than the other. It was about THE GAMES but now at days it seems like a lot of people have forgotten that.

For the hell of it though, let's look at what we're arguing about. So here's what I understand... Microsoft creates this half-fast system (Xbox 360) and tries to release it a year before everyone else to get a head start at the next-gen war. The only problem, it has over a 35% failure rate, it scratches your disks if you move the console and at the time the graphics weren't even that much better than the original Xbox. So after that a year later Sony releases this console (Playstation 3) that's highly over-priced but well worth it for performance reasons. It has an 8-cell multicore processor, less than a 5% failure rate, it can play Blu-rays, It has wireless controllers with motion sensors that charge (That's right, no batteries), they offer FREE decent online gameplay but start off with a shitty list of games. Then there's the Wii.... ....I really have like nothing to say about the Wii cause you can't even put it in the console war. Almost everyone and their Grandpa has a Wii. Does anyone really use it? Probably not, but still. So there, you have these two consoles. Both with their flaws but none the less two fully operating consoles.


A lot of people decide to go with the Xbox 360, mainly for it's price point. Other people go with the PS3 for it's pure raw power. Looking back on it now, I remember wanting a 360 very badly when they first came out, but now I'm kind of glad I didn't get one back then. Going with the PS3 was the smartest choice I ever made. Mainly for one IMPORTANT reason. I'm a collector. One day far down the road I'm going to look back on this generation of gaming and I'm going to want to play some classics like "Oblivion", "Fallout 3" and "Bioshock", and when I do I want a system that's going to work, and hold up to the test of time. With Xbox's 35% failure rate, it would be un-acceptable to have a console ten years down the road that I would have to either replace or repair (Who would repair them then?). So in the long run I'm really happy with my PS3.

Now a lot of people have made complaints about the PS3, but when it comes down to it Xbox really has nothing on it (Especially after 'Playstation Premium' comes out). When I ask people what makes Xbox better than PS3, they got nothing. Nothing at all. Sure the online is "Better" on 360 but the PS3 online community is a more than fantastic online network. So really, I don't see the point in arguing. I could go on and stuff but that's just my view on the console war. I didn't want to be mean or offend anyone. After all, they're just pieces of plastic with a couple circuit boards attached. It's the games that matter and that's it. So for now I hope you all have a wonderful day but I gotta get going!

I just hope that an amazing system like the PS3 doesn't go extinct over something stupid like the Sega Dreamcast did. That system was amazing.

- Locke Downe