Current mind share on B3D

[BlueTsunami]

Also, you have to realize that its hard to extract how many fans are on the forums by this poll. I'm a Sony fan, but I voted to get all three. You can have a Xbox fan that voted 360 and Revolution, you can also have a person with Preference for the Revolution that voted PS3 and 360. Some people don't just focus on one console but expand to a secondary ones to get games they couldn't get on their primary console.

I find it interesting that alot of people plan on getting all three.

 

[macabre]

Right now I`d go for PS3, 360/Rev. maybe later
Sometimes it just needs a price drop and a killer game. I bought a GC just for the RE4 bundle.

 

[Bad_Boy]

ps3 for me. the 360 is nice, i wont lie, and id probably get one this year if i werent a college student with tons of stuff to pay for. plus ive been saving for a new monitor for a while (24") and thats on the top of my "to get" list. sony usually just has the features and the titles i enjoy more. ive always been a sony whore, bought the ps1/ps2/psp all on launch days, and i probably wont miss the ps3 launch.

xbox360 maybe next year for xmas or so.

and i really dont want a revolution, the design is superb but the games/controller scare me. (talking 1st party games, most of their 3rd party games i can get on another console) i havent owned a nintendo machine since the SNES. *gasp*

maybe if nintendo actually shared information on the revolution titles people would be partial to them.

 

[Johnny Awesome]

As of right now I'm just getting the X360. Sony's first party games are somewhat compelling, but I can't stand MGS and most of the other standard PS franchises like Killzone, SOCOM, excessive substandard Japanese RPGs etc...

My big reasons for going with X360 - Halo 3, PGR3, and Bioware/SK/Rare games.

 

[Kb-Smoker]

PlayStation 3

I have a nice gaming computer already plus a PSP and the PS3 will have almost all the games i want.

 

[Almasy]

The only one I´m sure I´ll get is the PS3. I don´t know if at launch, but if it´s $300 and the software is there, I´m definitely getting it launch day. As for the rest, I´m not really interested in Revolution, I´d have to see if the software isn´t what I expect, tons of games based on mini games and non games, such as Nintendogs. X360, it depends on its japanese support. Many would like to claim otherwise, but the japanese Xbox support was almost at the same level before launching - heck, it had a MGS game announced for it!

Much bigger than anything that has been seen so far, so I´m going to wait and see. If the proper Japanese RPGs and action games are there, I think I´ll get it as my second console, but sometime later down the line.

 

[3roxor]

I'll get the PS3 close after launch and that's it probably. Seen what I've seen there isn't much reason for me to buy the x360. Lastly the revolution seems to go the kiddy way much like everything else Nintendo.. I'll keep my eye on it though.

 

[NavNucST3]

Xbox360. I doubt I will get a second console, although I may have a PS3 donated to me.
For me, especially after todays announcement with Live Arcade, the prospect of Live! Arcade and its plethora of games, is greater than mere backwards compatibility, that alone makes the line-up for the 360 the most compelling for me. It gives my wife an excuse to pick up the controller and play one of the simpler styles of games (which tend to be the most addictive anyway), and gets her off my Mac, it also allows her to buy whichever games she likes from the comfort of the couch.

For the xbox, Arcade was like, umm, whatever, for the 360 its a must-have for our household, and if they can get some educational stuff for my son, like reading or math games, that would just be icing on the cake.

 

[mckmas8808]

And the thought of PSP -> PS3 connectivity makes me :smile: . What if the PS3 has LocationFree TV software built inside of it?

 

[Qroach]

It would be even more expensive.

 

[mckmas8808]

It would be even more expensive.

What if it came in the form of a firmware upgrade like what the PSP has now. I'm pretty sure people would have thought the PSP would have been more expensive if the internet and LocationFree ability would have been sold on day one right?

 

[Qroach]

It would still be expensive. They would need to include hardware that other wise wouldn't be included for handling the video streams. I think Sony is going ot have hard time with price as it currently sits, and they will need to cut certain things from what has already been shown to lower the price.

 

[fearsomepirate]

If there aren't any ridiculously super awesome OMG GOTTA HAVE IT NOW titles at launch, I'll be getting Revolution when the next F-Zero hits.

If they kill the F-Zero franchise, I will weep bitter tears...and buy it anyway.

 

[Edge]

> "It would be even more expensive."

And they would sell even millions more to help pay for it all.

 

[jvd]

It would still be expensive. They would need to include hardware that other wise wouldn't be included for handling the video streams. I think Sony is going ot have hard time with price as it currently sits, and they will need to cut certain things from what has already been shown to lower the price.

I agree , I don't know why people think the ps3 will be the same price to make as the xbox 360 .

The ps3 has the higher transistor counts , it has 2 batches of ram one of them expensive ram that has to this date not been mass produced

Then you have a next gen optical drive that to this date still has not been mass produced .

You have a ton of inputs and out puts .

I just don't see it being cheaper and i can actually see it being 50-100$ more expensive to produce .

 

[Carl B]

Ok well, let's not turn this into a PS3 componentry cost thread. Things are still going relatively smoothly in here as a pure poll/opinion space.

 

[valioso]

i'll get an x360 at launch, I have an xbox now, and I am happy with it, I see no reason to really wait for the ps3. If when the ps3 comes out, something about it catches my eye, or there are games I can't simply pass.. then I will consider a purchase. I had a ps2 before my xbox, and I was also happy with it, and had no issues with it like some people had with break downs, or dis read errors

 

[Edge]

Over 100 million will sell through means component costs are cheap (especially when dealing with semiconductors and optical components that can be made cheaper over the life of the console), so not sure why people are obessesing over the whole cost issue. Sony will most likely outsell it's nearest competitor by 4 to 5 times, and that mass manufacturing just blows away any reasonable cost difference.

 

[Bad_Boy]

It would still be expensive. They would need to include hardware that other wise wouldn't be included for handling the video streams.

you mean a wifi/internet connection, a cpu, and a firmware upgrade? im sure the ps3 can handle it if the psp can.

the only way making the location free feature apart of the ps3 more expensive would be if they included the 350 dollar base with it

im sure the 2.5 firmware didnt make the psp more expensive. hell, most of us didnt even know what a location free base player was until the 2.5 firmware upgrade

 

[mckmas8808]

you mean a wifi/internet connection, a cpu, and a firmware upgrade? im sure the ps3 can handle it if the psp can.

the only way making the location free feature apart of the ps3 more expensive would be if they included the 350 dollar base with it

im sure the 2.5 firmware didnt make the psp more expensive. hell, most of us didnt even know what a location free base player was until the 2.5 firmware upgrade

Hey that's what I was thinking. I thought the PS3 would have the basic to do what the base unit for LocationFree came with. I thought all the PS3 would need is a firmware upgrade. And like you said the PSP can do it.