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| michaelbaysuperfan616:
In the interest of being fair I figured I would start a similar discussion as Wii U (since I place it in PS3 generation NOT current) I would ask about the consoles that most closely resembles the Wii U in many ways. I can honestly say that the PS3 is my least favorite of the Playstation consoles but I do find myself enjoying it more and more. One thing that I was turned off by originally, and for a very, very, very long time was how insanely over priced it was for how long it was insanely over priced. In a way it reminds me of the still criminally over priced Wii U. I also noticed that the software library wasn't doing it for me for the longest time. I did find myself coming around partially with some of the HD remasters and HD collections but it also took Super Street Fighter IV to really push me into wanting one. I also see some parallels with Wii U in that Sony bundled and forced an unnecessary feature onto the world that drove the cost up and did very little to actually improve gameplay for a very long time, that is Blu Ray drive. Realizing this, and how long the previous generation lasted makes me wonder if there is some logic to the Nintendo strategy of doubling down on Wii U now and trying to give it a second life by really proving the Game Pad concept and perhaps NX really is just, and only just, a handheld and the Wii U successor won't show up until two more years? Staying on topic of PS3, I didn't find myself buying one until mere months before the PS4 launched and honestly while it has given me plenty of entertainment, I get the feeling that much of that is a mix of it being the anti-Wii and also really focusing on retro, something else the Wii U does rely heavily on. I think that is why I fell in love with PS4 early one, I just got the impression that with everyone falling in line it was going to be easier to find all the games I wanted. So far it has been pretty good to me. But I am starting to really go back and try to rediscover more PS3 games. I just wish they had done better at keeping the backwards compatibility and found other ways to cut costs in the early days. |
| Evan_B:
Oooooooooooooh boy. Having never owned a Playstation 3, I cannot contribute to this topic. But I find the prospect appealing nowadays as its library becomes cheaper and the future of video games becomes more bleak. |
| Shaymin:
Sony clearly doesn't think so, since the PS4 is basically PS3 2.0 because you lot didn't buy it the first time. |
| michaelbaysuperfan616:
I am not so sure about that, PS4 fixed most of what was wrong with PS3 right off the bat. The biggest complaints, aside from price and small library, were the controllers being garbage, and the exclusives being barely passable alternatives to what Microsoft was doing. With PS4 it is more like they went back to PS2 and remembered how to do it right. The controller is the best controller I have ever gamed on, the system loads instantly I turn it on it's fucking ON right now, everything runs smooth, fast, the games are mostly sequels and updates to last gen but that is nothing new, nor is it at all bad. |
| lolmonade:
You cite the Blu-Ray as an unappealing/unwanted feature, but honestly, back when the system came out, it was one of the biggest selling points. It was also considered one of the better ones you could get for its price at the time, amazingly enough. To expand on this, Sony took similar gambles with PS1 with CD playback and PS2 with DVD. Sony was simply following what made them successful in prior console generations, which was piggybacking the gaming system with a new media format that could be a feature added to the box. Reading into it, I thought it was the cell architecture of the system that hurt it more than anything from a gaming standpoint, it's why the ports were generally inferior to the Xbox 360 until later in the life cycle. |
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