Lack of Sony PS3 games makes me get my Xbox 360 out
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3, Xbox 360 | By: Daniel
Posted on: September 16, 2007 | 34 Comments
Its been two or three weeks now since I brought my Sony PS3 and although I do love it and playing my Nintendo Wii, I have had enough of the lack of gaming choice on the Playstation 3 so I have got my Xbox 360 out of the back room and starting playing again.
With a big game collection on the Xbox 360 and so many game demos to download the 360 is so much better “Currently” for gaming, the Playstation store lacks games and game updates.
So today I played the 360 for most of the day for the first time since I brought the PS3 a couple of weeks ago.
I know the PS3 is going to get tons more games, it just seems to be taking a long time as the PS3 has been out a little while now and still lacks games choice.
What’s your view on the games choice for the PS3?
Do not get me wrong, I love the PS3 but its games choice is currently rubbish.
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It isn’t so much that the PS3 lacks as much as it is that it always gets them late. Right now the PS3 cost more than the 360 yet the same good games on the PS3 have better versions on the 360. Think Graw 2, Rainbow 6, Madden 08, NHL 08, I’m no brainiac but as a consumer I know paying more while getting less isn’t a good deal. Sony keeps saying “Oh but it will be great” I say I can wait. Why in the world would someone buy it now when it is expensive when the maker say’s it isn’t that good now? Yeah I may get the RROD again but I will be playing tons of great games and as a gamer that is what matters. Besides MS will get the kinks out and I have a 3yr warranty that I know they will honor. You see my 360 broke 5 months past it’s original warranty and I have a quiter, cooler, and most important FREE replacement. When my PS2 broke after its 90 day warranty I got to buy a new one. Screw Sony don’t miss out on Mass Effect, Bioshock, Halo 3, Virtual Fighter 5(multiplayer version!!!), Gears of War, Madden 08, and all the other games including the multiplat ones because if anything the 360 will get the best version earlier!
The problem is the “tun” more games comin out for the ps3 are also on the 360… except what 2? Sell the ps3 while you can still get a decent price for it.
Resistance: fall of man, Motorstorm, Lair (controls aren’t bad at all. People who complain about the controls only play for 5 minutes) Warhawk, HeavenlySword, and Ratchet and clank next month. That’s enough games to keep you quiet.
Some pretty cool stuff. Thanks for this info.
I just bought a ps3. I like the built in wireless, bluetooth, HDMI, larger and easily upgradeable hard drive, plus the ability to use it as a computer by adding linux. Movies look wonderful on the blu-ray. i have an old xbox, and a wii. One of these days I will get a 360. Sure there are fewer games. It’s fine for me now. While the 360 is nice looking, why do they break down, why did it take so long for microsoft to add HDMI, why do I have to pay separately for a wireless attachment? Some aspects such as online play are well thought out. Other aspects are cheap.
@ Luke
Sell the PS3? Why?
Lets not understimate Sony to much, yes, there is now a lack of good games for PS3, yes, their marketing strategy is… well, is not! and they are embrassing some bad moments, but lets not forget… they sold 120.000.000 PS2 consoles, they still are the company who more consoles sell every month (Ps2/Ps3/PSP combined), they have the best studios working for them and they have a high quality product, PS2 owners will think twice before they change of console brand when they take the next step, and Bluray while not THE factor to buy a PS3 is still a good factor, and with HDTV sets lowering prices every day a PS3 is a good buy, the games… those will come, and this Christmas will bring many good first and third party games to PS3, with Xbox360 having so many hardware faillures and a 3 year warranty for a problem that shouldn’t even exist I don’t know… they have the games, but not a reliable product, M$ is a bitch company(sorry my french) and if it wasn’t the one year of advantage they would be allready doomed, fortunately that is not the case and once again in the video-game history we have three strong companys fighting for consumers, Sony isn’t doing very well infact, but they still have one more full year to show us of what PS3 is able to do before we can say if Sony has lost is “power”.
It took awhile for the 360 to get anything decent, let the PS3 play catch up, remember catch up mode in Daytona? Well it’s switched on for this ride.
Ratchet and Clank, just looking at one screenshot tells you that this game is going to look absolutely brilliant. It’s on par with a Pixar Animation movie. The gameplay should be sweet, these guys at Insomniac Games know what they are doing. I think this game will justify your purchase of a full HD 1080p TV, just the vibrant colours scream “watch me”.
Of course there’s Killzone2, MGS4, GTHD among many. Drake’s Fortune should be entertaining at the least and the one I’m most looking forward to the most is Little Big Planet. I think this game will surprise many, just like the Wii, and go on to be the PS3s best selling game, but that’s the feeling I get.
Its obvious Sony rushed the PS3 just to be in the game. All of their games except like 4-5 now are 360 third party game ports that came out months after it came out on the 360. I feel that they have made no effort at all to bring quality gaming this generation but relied heavily on brand recognition to win the high defintion dvd war. Its obvious. the next gen dvd format war would have waaaaay more profitable than they could ever have made on games so thats what they pushed. Lood at all their adds and tell me how many times they mention the words “blue ray”. PS3 will follow the steps of the PSP at best.
Sony did not rush anything, in fact they delayed it several months so they could get it right. Microsoft on the other hand…do I need to go there even?
360 = crappy console with the best games so far
PS3 = quality machine without the best games so far
GRAW 2 looks better on PS3
Dirt Runs smoother in PS3
Oblivion looks much better in PS3
Heavenly Sword has the most amazing graphics to date in a video game
And those are games with less than a year after the PS3 launched, if some games look worse on PS3 that’s just because programmers are making fast ports from X360 to PS3, but I believe that if Sony catch up the reverse will happen, games will look better on PS3 and worse in X360, PS3 is not easy to develop for, but it allows more complex graphics and phisics, when developers are confortable developing for PS3 those “ports” will no longer be.
About the warranty of X360… well, I think you should think a little, they are offering 3 years warrannty JUST for the RROD, wich is a problem that shouldn’t even exist, it’s not a warranty, is sand for the eyes of consumers, and if your PS2 broke after 9 months Sony would have changed, at least if you did’nt modded it to run piracy, in that case shame on you.
The REAL problem for Sony is the Microsoftisized mídias, gamme sites like Gamespot, bloggers, analysts, etc… are beeing stangely to “kind” for M$ and to mean to Sony, specially american sites… I wonder why….. :S
I’m from Portugal, I don’t have money to buy more than a game each 2 or 3 months (maximum), so I don’t want many games, I want some good games once in a while, I couldn’t be happier with my PS3, I have free demos, free online play, some fantastic games and a console that IS and looks great, there is something special about a PS3, and only those who have one knows why am I saing this.
Wii - a toy, wich is nice!
Xbox360 - a rushed and absolete game console that as a good graphics card, has a pille of expensive ad-ons (HDD’s, wireless controllers, wi-fi thing, HD-DVD drive, etc…), is supported by the biggest and stuppidiest company in industry but is in the market at some time, has a payed online service and as nothing od special about how it looks or play, the hardware is also a mess, full of problems, optical drives that scratch disks, CPU that pop-off, noisy, RROD, not easely upgradable… well… is just a ugly playing machine that has some nice graphics, 10.000.000 owners don’t have HDMI on their’s… conclusion…. a rushed product with many and some good games, but in the negative side there are to many things that time can’t fix.
PS3 - A AAA hardware, totaly next-gen, with next gen processor, next gen optical drive, easily upgradable (HDD), a free online service, in soon will have HOME to make their online experience stronger, games… well… not many has we know, but that is something that will be ironed this christmas, and has a high price tag, but those are negative things (the price and lack of games) that time will fix, and in soon there will be no reason to not buy a PS3, it will have everything Xbox360 has and much more, for me RFOM, Motorstorm, Dirt, Oblivion, Warhawk, Heavenly Sword among others are everything I need until some other great games come out, Little Big Planet, MGS4, Killzone2, GT5 prologue, Devil May Cry, GTA IV, Locoroco, COD4, Ratched $ Clank, Drake’s Fortune, Assasin’s Creed, etc, etc, etc…. Xbox 360 has HALO3 and Mass Effect has true good exclusives, that for me in not enough to buy their faulty product and keep feeding M$.
I’m fine now with my PS3 and will be better in more 4 to 5 months from now.