NEW SHORT: "A LETTER TO XBOX 360 OWNERS"

[ArrowX]

People are against buying the PS3 now, but if you factor a price drop anywhere between 60-100 every year over a console with a supposed 10 year life your looking at a pretty inexpensive console in about 2-3 years. Plus now that Blu Ray is actually a better format than standard DVD's in terms of storage space for games. I hate to say it but at the end of the PS3's lifespan its gonna be a killer system hardware and cost wise down the road.

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Sony is expecting the PS3 to have a 10 year lifespan, compared to the 360 and the Wii's probable 5-6 year lifespan. My money is on Microsoft moving a next gen system (PS3,Wii,360 consoles being current generation) by 2010-2011, with better hardware.

Oh and Fartin I'm not sevenforce and I don't know how to mod my 360.

[Dr. Boogie]

Wow, hardware. Yeah, that's really great.

The problem is that if a system doesn't have good games, it won't matter that it has better hardware than the competition. Just look at the DS vs PSP.

[Fathom Zero]

I'd like a Wii, but it's not gonna matter if I can't find the damn things in stores.

I still haven't seen one that was up for sale in any store I've been in. And trust me. I've looked. But there are stacks of PS3s and at least one for sale in a display case in every store I've been in, (leave it to me to open up another can of worms.) That was one of the issues people have had with availability and now it seems, at least to me, that only the Wii suffers from those issues and understandably so. I'm still on the lookout, though.

And the 360's hardware is just fine. I feel really dumb now for having been suckered into Gamestop's insurance package knowing that Microsoft already has a warranty for the thing.

[Dr. Boogie]

Yeah, if by "already has a warranty" you mean "has just extended the warranty to cover a major problem that a lot of people are running into".

[Fathom Zero]

Define "a lot." The 360 had a year warranty if I'm not mistaken, (probably am, but oh well.) With peoples' shit breaking left and right as we hear it, a three year warranty would probably be overkill.

And I forgot to address the games. Both companies, (Nintendo and Sony, that is), have announced an assload of games. Microsoft doesn't need to really announce as many since they're not as pushed to have a ton of them.

[Dr. Boogie]

Originally Posted by Fathom Zero

Define "a lot." The 360 had a year warranty if I'm not mistaken, (probably am, but oh well.) With peoples' shit breaking left and right as we hear it, a three year warranty would probably be overkill.

Well, I would define "a lot" as so many that Microsoft would describe it as "an unacceptable number" and then put themselves in a position to take a billion dollar hit to fix the problem. As for the length of the warranty, my 360 was made in 2005, and it just broke down now, so I don't think three years is that much overkill for such a serious problem.

[Chojin]

Originally Posted by ArrowX

People are against buying the PS3 now, but if you factor a price drop anywhere between 60-100 every year over a console with a supposed 10 year life your looking at a pretty inexpensive console in about 2-3 years.

Funny thing! The $100 PS3 price cut only applies to the 60 GB model - which is now no longer being manufactured - while the new 80GB model is still retailing for $599. So, there is no guarantee there's a price cut every year - actually, none of the new systems have done it yet. And now that Sony's releasing controllers with rumble, everyone who trusted them with their riches gets to feel like a moron for buying inferior $50 controllers while Sony was pitching that rumble 'felt like a last-gen feature' to them. And if the PS3 is fucking their profits as much next year as it is now, do you really think they could keep their shenanigans up for another 8-9 years even if they wanted to? Shareholders might have some concerns, I'm just saying. Point being, there's a lot of ill will being spread over a launch that really looks like it should have waited another year to happen, and that's not something that's going to change overnight. They're up to what, 3 SKUs now, and already have a new controller you need to buy. What 'average joe' ps3 user has the time or desire to keep on top of shit like that? And when people get confused or bored, they go elsewhere for entertainment.

But before I make i-mockery look too much like the kotaku comment board, I would just like to say that the article was hilarious, and noob3 apparently didn't understand that this isn't just a factual report from the i-mockery news crew.