Except most game developers won't have Naughty Dog's level of experience in a short enough period of time to apply to their projects. The typical, moderately decent title takes a little over two YEARS to develop.Deity1986 said:
What is my point?.. that by time the majority of developers start making those "bigger and better games" for the PS3, and they start becoming the standard and not the 'exception', it'll be well on the cusp of a new Xbox, if a new one isn't already entering post-production/testing stages which I suspect it is. Microsoft probably has the next Xbox iteration well in the development stages and is just keeping it locked down until they siphon every cent they can from the current generation.
But what people don't seem to be considering is the massive effect of digital data on the industry. Sure, the xbox doesn't have 25 gig disks, but it does have a hard drive (several of them actually). Eventually even BD are going to become obsolete as the industry discovers faster and more convenient ways of transferring game data to consoles. When that happens, the sky is the limit.
I personally, will poop myself when Kojima releases the first 100 gb game, Metal Gear Solid Opus Maximum et al Machina Extrema Final in the year 2013...
Except you'd be wrong.WhiteTiger225 said:Wow, do you just say yes to everything? By claiming theres LESS of a mod community for PS3 just made me LOL! There is NO MOD COMMUNITY FOR PS3 save for little big planets level designer XD And even then, you cant add new models and such in. AND I love how you further shoot yourself in the foot by claiming it's 1.) Hard to find good mods 2.) that any one who mods obviously doesnt have enough games.
See heres the thing you cute little sonic fanboy ^.^
1.) If I find a game I love, I will play it endlessly. I played morrowind WITHOUT MODS for 3 years (among other games) because I truly enjoyed exploring it.
2.)Good luck playing on your crappy PS3 network with your buddies, unless you're one of those types who enjoy huddling around your television screen like highschool shutins (Funny, really, how your own attack against PC multiplayer can be so easily turned around XD)
3.) PS3 is now selling at a nice loss, and they took out backwards compatibility. SO, while I am sitting her enjoying my copy of final fantasy 7 on PC, you're just shit out of luck and have to buy a PS1 to play it XD and while I am at it, lets make a realistic comparison. A computer made for gaming, selling at a loss, 300-500? AND it has backwards compatibility
4.) "For people who strictly want to play games, ONLY games, and move on with their lives, the PS3 is the best value. " For people who want to get a life and go outside for a change, trashing your PS3 is the way to go. See how that works? I can easily claim console gamers have no life too XD
Again I'll answer you in short answers to save time.
Ps3-hacks.com and other sites have a rather robust modding community. It's just that console gamers don't really care all that much about playing games like Uncharted in a Captain Picard skin. We're too busy playing GAMES, which release with frequent regularity, where as you can cruise the PC game aisle in walmart for months without seeing anything worth buying that isnt either already available on a console or BORING.
Little Big Planet has absolutely NO real counterpart on the PC, unless you count Spore, which was mediocre at best. It's one of the most original and fun games created in the past two years, but you probably missed it while you were playing Morrowind on your PC while most of us had tired of Oblivion three years ago.
Decent PC mods for ANY game are hard to find, and slow to arrive. Take Battlefield 2 and 2142. I used to play those religiously. Every now and again a mod would arrive worth looking at but for the most part the mods out were either boring, lame, or a combination of both. I've seen and tried a few mods for Fallout but again, decent ones are hard to come by. Any jackass can muck around with a level editor, but that doesn't mean that 90% of user created content is garbage that would have been panned by every gamer on Earth if it had been part of the official game.
and now for your points:
1. If i find a good game, I play it, beat it, play it a little more, then buy a NEW game because I have explored that game enough. I don't need to download someone's Kim Possible Mod for "x" game because that crap has no appeal to me.
2. Playing on PS3 with my friends is quick, easy, and painless, often involving nothing more difficult than passing them a CONTROLLER. How well does that work on the PC? Oh wait, it doesn't. You either play LAN or on servers or you don't play at all.
3. News Flash! I can play Final Fantasy 7 on my PS3 too! You might have missed this while you were busy extolling the virtues of PC gaming, but the PS3 still plays PS1 games just fine. It's PS2 games that are the issue, so unless you are playing Final Fantasy 10 on your PC (you're not), your argument falls apart. Even better, I don't need patches, tweaks, or alternative drivers to play older games, things you often need with PC's if you don't need an emulator OUTRIGHT just to get it to work.
4. I could care less about the loss Sony takes on the PS3. How does that effect ME, the consumer? I still pay $299 for my PS3 while YOU pay upwards of $800-$1200 for your PC, which usually requires additional upgrades every two years or less for $150-$300. My PS3 works just fine and will work just fine for the next 5 years, keeping pace with the best the PC has to offer.
5. Please explain how PC games can go outside and have a life and PS3 gamers can't? How does that even make sense? I can simply play my ps3 and shut it off at any time, while you're still tooling around with your resolutions to find that magic mix of framerate and visual quality.
Bottomline: The PS3 is for gamers who dont want to be bothered with trying to manage all that a PC requires in maintenance just to play a game. We've got better things to do than worry about if our new game will meet "recommended requirements" which more often than not people are finding out that they don't.
Prime example is Crysis. Sure it's a pretty game. But how many people were able to run it on release day without issues or having to upgrade? STALKER was another decent game but again, most casual mainstream gamers would have needed to upgrade in order to play it. Thats the biggest flaw of PC gaming... even when you think you meet the recommended specs, there is no garuntee when you open that box that you'll be able to play that game without issues. It's always and consistently a crap shoot with PC's where as consoles don't have that problem.
