Meh, Wii Sports is lame. The rayman game looks interesting, but after red steel I'm going to have to do a rental before I spend another $50 on a game. I also almost bought an xbox 360 (after gears of war came out). But I didn't, because I also don't like playing FPS games with a regular console controller. Using the wiimote for red steel is pretty cool, but the game itself was boring.

Well, hopefully they will learn from the mistakes and make a better FPS. I heard the FPS-quality of Metroid Prime 3 is really tweaked to be quite good.

I'm thinking of getting a 360... with a 360 and a Wii, I'll be able to play 90% of new console games.

PS3 sucks for one reason...

No Guitar Hero support.

Yes it does. Get a PS2 -> USB controller adapter.

So what PS3 exclusives are worth getting if MGS goes to Xbox? Is it just Final Fantasy?

... that sucks.

Warhawks looks pretty damn good, as does White Knight Story and the new Killzone.

[QUOTE=Kieran Horn]I've actually considered getting a PS3 or, even more so, an Xbox 360. The 360 has a lot of games I would probably like, but there is one problem. My favorite kind of game is FPS and I can not stand playing FPS games with little joysticks(I first learned this playing SOCOM and Medal of Honor for PS2). I must have the more controllable aiming of a mouse. Or, as it seems, a Wiimote. Hence my desire to ge a Wii over the Xbox or PS3. Online multiplayer is also something I love and I know Xbox has a good multiplayer community, which makes the gamble on the Wii's future online multiplayer even bigger.[/QUOTE]

Speaking as a hardcore PC FPS fan (I literally play nothing else on PC), playing with a 360 controller really isn't as bad as you'd think, once you get used to it.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way.

[QUOTE=Cool Matty]Rayman. Hands down, insanely awesome game.

Also, coming out next month, Wario Ware.

And of course, Wii Sports, although included, deserves a mention.[/QUOTE]
And the rest of them are based off of kid movies. I counted at Target, half the games there were based off cartoons/kid movies. Maybe I missed it but I don't see that on the PS3 or 360.

Well what do you expect? The Wii is the cheapest to develop for and has adequate graphics for the quality that most film tie-ins have. It's perfect for the B-grade development houses who win the movie game contracts to experiment with gameplay ideas without having to spend 10s of billions developing a ps3 or 360 game.

But the advantage is that now a clear lower-risk console exists in the Wii there's a much higher chance of developers being willing to try out new gameplay ideas and not just stick to the tried-and-tested ones that dominate the mainstream. i.e. there's a chance we might actually see some good games from developers who traditionally don't produce anything of note.

The main thing that threatens this is that Microsoft have just produced XNA which allows for really cheap development and distribution of simple games.

I don't see ANYTHING for the PS3, so point stands.

[QUOTE=Cool Matty]I don't see ANYTHING for the PS3, so point stands.[/QUOTE]
Resistance: Fall of Man is supposedly AWESOME.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]Resistance: Fall of Man is supposedly AWESOME.[/QUOTE]

Correction: I don't see anything besides Resistance.

[QUOTE=Cool Matty]Correction: I don't see anything besides Resistance.[/QUOTE]
And all the Revolution [no blujay :p] has is Excite Truck and Zelda, and maybe Rayman (heard mixed reviews). Who cares, launches always suck title wise. Give it time.

In the long run I am sure the PS3 library will be awesome, just like the PS2's. I really don't see the Wii doing that well, besides the initial hype.

Yeah, for $600 you are well on your way to a good gaming PC. With the money you would have spent on PS3 games, you could use to finish the PC. Then you can download all your PC games.

Banned.

whoever said the PS3 was easy to develop for probably isn't aware of the magnitude of the problem designing software to work well on the cell, its been mentioned in two threads before about how complex optimizing code to run on an 8 core processor is, let alone a 8 core processor that has different types of cores in it.

although the following link is nearly a year old now (and I've posted it before) its a general overview of some of the problems facing IBM trying to make a complier for all the developers out there for the PS3

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060225-6265.html

The link below takes you to the page to download the compiler for the cell, now, I'm no software expert but what I do know is that an Alpha release is still very far from completion and also judging by the version number 0.8, things still have a fair way to go.

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/cellcompiler

Now, I'm not bashing the cell, I think its a damn good processor, I just think that sony went one leap too far this time, IBM estimate it'll take them another 2-3 years before things are done on the compiler, and thats a best case scenario, by which time we could probably be seeing the next gen Xbox and Nintendo on the horizon. IBM themselves don't plan on using the cell in their main supercomputers till 2008 and a nice little quote from the wiki article on it says "Cell is widely regarded as a challenging environment for software development".

In the meantime games are gonna be developed that don't use whats inside the PS3 to their full extent, yes the graphics chip is a known quantity to developers but the big thing nowadays in games isn't the graphics, its the other stuff, physics, AI, etc...all stuff that'll be done on the cell.

But in the end its the games that make or break a console and in all honesty I'm not up to date on that front and nor do I really care (I've never owned a console in my life).