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The $400 PlayStation 3 comes to the U.S.
Could the long-awaited cheap PS3 give Sony the edge this holiday season?
By Farhad Manjoo [2007-10-18]

  • "It's the Games, Stupid!"

    I agree with the first post.

    360 has won the liminal class of gaming, the evangelist hardcore, through superior games. Particularly strong in FPS (BioShock, Gears of War, Halo 3), the 360 has already successfully courted serious gamers and converted casual gamers through the Xbox Live community.

    Elsewhere, Wii is suffering from a dearth of good games. Many systems are collecting dust once WiiSports lost its novelty. Not to say its a bad system though. It's a wonderful, revolutionary control scheme, but it's sitting on clearly deprecated technology. It's hard to attract developers to a system that lacks the muscle we festishize now. The library is weak.

    PS3 is in the same boat, pretty much. Exclusive developers have defected to Xbox 360. Developers who try to launch on both platforms are seeing their deadlines come and go.

    I know I'm coming off as a zealous 360er. Here's some truth:

    I've had three consecutive 360 consoles experience general hardware failure in the last 6 months. I'm sterling proof of how shoddy 360 consoles are. But I'm still gonna come back. It's the games.

    -- Peter Hassett
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    Thursday, October 18, 2007 11:09 AM
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