PC all the way. You can plug them into your tv or a large monitor, plug in a 360 controller via usb, have dual monitors, upgrade them, downgrade them, mod games. What's not to love?

You'll pay more for the rig, but pay less for steam keys which are almost always on sale on one website or another. Then there's humble bundle too.

I have 120 steam games, only around 10 of which are indie titles, averaging at $6 for each (according to my spreadsheet). You do the math.

Wasn't the PS2 as hard as, if not harder than the PS3 to develop for? And yet the Gamecube and Xbox were way behind that generation.

I guess the design of the PS3 was Sony building off their previous success, though with more multiplatform games last gen it didn't work out so well.

I don't know, after the PSX I shifted to PC though I did buy a PS1 when the PSX died of old age

Thanks for linking that.

I agree that Xbox has the better games at present. There are two I've got my eye on that are exclusives and they are both on Xbox - zoo tycoon & Titan fall.

I must confess I'm quite gutted about that really as I'm seriously peeved with xbox's previous attitude over pre-owned games. To me that's quite an unforgivable cheek. I'm the same with apple over the iPhone being too much in control and dictating what I can have. I want a product to give me what best for me and not them. I am the one spending the cash. Company are getting too big for their boots and I very much try to boycot those companies that try.

My other concern is the Fable series as if they release a Fable 4 it will probably be exclusive to Xbox

But then Playstation is cheaper to buy and cheaper and give a better deal on-line.

Oh the decisions. Do I still boycot Xbox or do I give them one last chance?? Difficult choice.

Ehh, a multitude of things but mainly Western-biased influenced article (the interview in which this article stems from is an XBox-centric podcast) taking a translation out-of-context. No one purposely makes something hard to develop for just for the sake of it being hard to develop for. It was harder to develop for simply because hardware and the higher potential it had. If money wasn't an issue (which it always is) the devs wouldn't have much issue with the console. The fact that you sometimes needed more time to invest into developing a game on that hardware to reach the higher potential means more dollars spent developing, which cuts into the bottom line; businesses hate that and developers are a business as much as anybody else, even though they are into art and entertainment.

When this article came out, 4 years ago, it was old news already and the discussion had been beaten to death. Not trying to sound like a tin foil hat theorist, but an old issue being brought up again in an Xbox forum while taking a small snippet of a translation and using the context to fit you view? Just saying, it doesn't seem unbiased or even remotely so.

One line in particular though did stand out:

"That's precisely why I haven't seen much difference in the games offered on both consoles. Sure, some look better on the PS3, but the difference is minor, and that's the only improvement I can see. I don't think developers are taking the Sony bait and working harder at harnessing the power of Sony's console. The incremental benefit of doing so, at least if we judge by what we've seen so far, simply isn't high enough for developers to follow Sony's plan."

Before in the article it states that it was Sony's plan to make it harder for the benefit of being harder, now it just seems to be highlighting the potential power of the system. And even with this line the writer is false because many developers did try to and use the console successfully in fully utilizing it's potential, even before this article came out. Another reason as I see that podcast, and this article stemming from it, as a PR-move for Xbox enthusiasts.

From my understanding, the PS2 was a pain because the instructions to work with it were not translated (they were all in Japanese) and you couldn't check for bugs until the end of the process.

Still, many amazing games that were well worth the time invested. The PS2 still pretty much is the benchmark for success in the console business financially, game-wise, and experience.

This topic really should have been locked after this, stickied and emails sent to the official XBox and Playstation forums.

Az

This.

Wait for 1. possible price drops, and 2. more games to come out. I've had a Playstation from each gen now, but I've never gotten them at launch. I wait at least until there are a few games that I actually want to play first. (for ex, I don't really care about any of the PS4 launch games)

The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 both look great, but as you have all correctly pointed out the launch lineups are often pitiful. I will purchase a PC sometime next year. However, I'd still like a new console this year. Should I instead maybe look to a handheld instead? Refer to my updated OP please.