Skykid wrote:Goddamn, this is simple: buy a 360.
PS3 - no games, fantastic line-up for the future
As a reccommendation to buy, that's one of the funniest things I've heard all month.
Maybe you've already bought something but a detail to consider if you have a psp or plan to purchase one in the future is that there is already added functionality and stuff with the PS3, with more stuff I'm sure to be implemented in future updates.
Great, and forgoe any opportunity to mod your PSP with custom firmware and potentially not play Progear on the train because you've instead gone for some really rubbish connectivity features to your PS3. No thanks.
The 360 live service is far superior, the games are far superior, technically its superior (Bioshock exclusivity for instance), aesthetically its far superior.
If you can lift a PS3, where will you put it? When you do put it somewhere, somehow, what will you play on it?
When you keep getting kicked off of the live service because it doesn't work, then phone the hotline (which unlike the 360's 0800 support, costs dough) who will you play with?
This isn't a tough question. Sony finally, with a pad that's now so outdated the game development around it is stifled, have stumbled at the starting blocks.
The machine exists in a variety of further and further stripped down formats due to losses, forcing less and less compatibility with the previous systems to keep the frankly unwarranted consumer price tag as low as possible.
Its a bit messy, and if I was you I'd avoid with predjudice until Sony come up with a decent controller (one thats at least superior to PS2's dual shock 2 - this one doesn't even have rumble features), decent games, decent live services, decent backwards compatibility and a decent re-design of the machine.
Until then, let me know your XBLA gamertag and I'll hit you up for some SF Third Strike!
This man speaks the truth.
A lot of people try to use the "Well the Xbox360 doesn't have Japanese games on it!!!!!" argument because they're still living in 2004 and don't see the "360" after the word "Xbox", but if its Japanese gaming you want then:
Natsume - Omega Five
Namco - Ace Combat 6, Soul Calibur 4, Tales of Vesperia (?), Beautiful Katamari, Culdcept Saga
Treasure - New 2D shooter, Ikargua
Q? Entertainment - Rez HD, E4, Ninety-Nine Nights, Lumines
Mistwalker - Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Cry On, Blue Dragon 2
Sega - Virtua Fighter 5
Sandlot - Earth Defense Force 2017
G.Rev - Senko no Ronde
Square-Enix - Last Remnant
Tri-Ace - Infinite Undiscovery
From Software - Armored Core 4, Armored Core: For Answer, Enchanted Arms, Chromehounds
Koei - Um... everything they make is on the Xbox360 and PS3?
Atlus - Spectral Force 3, Operation Darkness
Konami - The same dumb DDR games.
Capcom - Lost Planet, Lost Planet 2 (since it was mentioned a few weeks back), Dead Rising, Devil May Cry 4, Resident Evil 5, and... every other next-gen game they're making.
Team Ninja - Dead or Alive 4, Code Cronos (whatever that is), Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball 2, Ninja Gaiden 2
And you've got that Raiden Fighters collection coming out exclusively in a month. Not to mention Shikigami no Shiro III which is only also on the Wii.
So I mean, already the 360 has MORE obscure Japanese titles than have even been announced for the PS3. Not to mention the 360 is getting support from people like Treasure, Q?, and G.Rev, all of which are brilliant Japanese developers.
So... I think its safe to say that the 360 has some decent Japanese support.
