Rinoah said:
Tbh i wouldn't even look at the PS3 if FFXIII wasn't on it.
Ditto, I only care about the sony systems because FF and MGS nowdays. I'll buy the occasional game for it I hear about maybe, but that's it. Sony isn't going to lure me to buy tons and tons of games for it like nintendo does with me. If there are tons of people like me, that only buy a few games throughout the console's lifetime, I'd imagine they're losing lots of money on people like us? And now that MS and sony kind of established the predesent "Hey, our consoles made in the first 6 months by our companies might not work", well I just had the thought of replacing a 600$ dollar system because it stopped working for no reason, and that is crazy. Even if such a thing didn't happen, it's still expensive unless you plan on buying tons of games for it to make it worth it.
It'll be hard to justify 70-80 a game too. Between the other two consoles and the handheld games we have to choose from, why spend 80 on one game. Have 5 PS3 games or...have 8 other games at full price of 50$ ? Don't even pull the "But their games are better" card, because that's a very arrogant thing to say. The graphics aren't going to be equal, but graphics are already at a stage for some people in which we might say, "Meh, they're all damn good enough for me, not too much difference to take note of". In other words, graphics are now advanced enough already that some people don't need much more. Some of us are content almost with modern graphics and now want new things to be improved.
And regarding graphics, they're pretty and stuff, but at this stage it's just about more detail, and not about adding things that weren't there before. Graphics jumps from SNES to 64 and from ps1/64 to the gamecubeps2/xbox were big because, with the new graphics, new things could be shown. For example, we could see all the features of a face on ps2/cube/box instead of this blocky face in a PS1 with two black dots for beady little eyes. Things like shadows, smoothness, and "new" detail were new then. Think of the original MGS1 compared to the gamcube remake twinsnakes. Obvious new detail was introduced from one console to the next, and not just enhancing of existing detail.
However, the new grahpics look to just enhance already existing detail instead of adding importent things that weren't already there, big woop. Not everyone is a graphics junkie. MGS4 could come out on PS2 with graphics comparable to MGS3, and I'd still buy it and have a good reason to pass on PS3.
Infact, if some of you are such graphics junkies, what the hell were you doing playing PS2 instead of cube and xbox? Hypocrates...I swear. It's all about the games available during ps2...and now it's all about graphics? /disgust. It's something like that, that makes use of the word "fanboy" acceptable, and that is stating changing interest to fit your future console. If it was about the ps2s games, fine, but the reason for liking a console best of "Game selection(in your opinion)", shouldn't change from console to console for a certain gaming company.
And to assume, new "casual" gamers would be lured away from an affordable system that got them hooked, to a more ...gamer established system, is just silly. If maryjane never played videos games before, and got really into the wii for it showed her video games in a new light that actually interested her, why would this casual gamer who never was into video games because she was never awed by graphics and complete control through the fingers only change now?
