# PS3/XBox or Wii?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ps3-xbox-or-wii/492841
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [April 12, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ps3-xbox-or-wii/492841 "2009-04-12T14:21:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@YamatoTwinkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YamatoTwinkie)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2009, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ps3-xbox-or-wii/492841/81 "2009-04-16T22:21:15Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#):
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> The novelty of the Wii controllers finally broke down my console resistence – it’s nowhere near as good as a keyboard & mouse combo (I guess I _like_ overly-complex controls) but it seems to me that they are better suited to complex controls than a gamepad. (ie; there is a comparable number of buttons, mini-joystick, etc _plus_ positional and gestural input.)
For me (long time PC gamer, Xbox360 and dust-gathering-Wii owner), the main issue I believe limits the complexity of Wii controls is it’s gesture recognition ability. When I’m told to waggle my wiimote to swing a sword, I **don’t** want to end up swinging my sword only 80% of the time, then having the game interpret my waggle as a “jump” the other 20% of the time. My controls should do exactly what I want them to do 100% of the time, and will not settle for anything else. Both my mouse+KB and my xbox controller perform this task flawlessly.
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### Author:  [@PopeJewish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PopeJewish)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ps3-xbox-or-wii/492841/82 "2009-04-17T00:42:35Z")
> [@YamatoTwinkie](#):
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> For me (long time PC gamer, Xbox360 and dust-gathering-Wii owner), the main issue I believe limits the complexity of Wii controls is it’s gesture recognition ability. When I’m told to waggle my wiimote to swing a sword, I **don’t** want to end up swinging my sword only 80% of the time, then having the game interpret my waggle as a “jump” the other 20% of the time. My controls should do exactly what I want them to do 100% of the time, and will not settle for anything else. Both my mouse+KB and my xbox controller perform this task flawlessly.
I definitely agree with this. The theory is that the new wii motion plus will bring it either closer to or completely at 1:1 sensing capabilities, but it angers me that Nintendo is releasing a controller add on all of 2.5 or 3 years after launch that makes the wiimote do what was originally intended/advertised. I’m pretty disenfranchised with Nintendo after this console gen, to be honest, though I’m still a huge zelda fan so that puts me up the creek with nary a paddle to be seen when it comes to next gen. Hoping they release another zelda game on the wii (one actually made for the wii this time) before the end of this gen.
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ps3-xbox-or-wii/492841/83 "2009-04-17T04:38:45Z")
I agree. Twilight Princess, for me, was a major disappointment. I was even warned by the old lady that sold it to me to play the Game Cube version, because her son said it was better.
I didn’t, and I don’t think I’d be happy with either, to be frank. It was just pretty lackluster all the way around for me. It wasn’t the graphics, but those were the final straw.
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### Author:  [@PopeJewish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PopeJewish)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ps3-xbox-or-wii/492841/84 "2009-04-17T23:47:31Z")
> [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#):
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> I agree. Twilight Princess, for me, was a major disappointment. I was even warned by the old lady that sold it to me to play the Game Cube version, because her son said it was better.
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> I didn’t, and I don’t think I’d be happy with either, to be frank. It was just pretty lackluster all the way around for me. It wasn’t the graphics, but those were the final straw.
I actually liked the game, granted I was still basking in the glow of the novelty of the wii at the time. Overall, though, I thought the game was a pretty decent zelda game, and I liked the atmosphere a lot better than I did WindWaker (though I still enjoyed WW)
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2009, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ps3-xbox-or-wii/492841/85 "2009-04-18T03:05:53Z")
> [@PopeJewish](#):
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> I actually liked the game, granted I was still basking in the glow of the novelty of the wii at the time. Overall, though, I thought the game was a pretty decent zelda game, and I liked the atmosphere a lot better than I did WindWaker (though I still enjoyed WW)
There was a little bit of basking, for it was the first game we got for the Wii, but any novelty was annihilated when we had to fish. Seriously, it took us multiple days to figure out how to fish. For a console that’s supposed to have intuitive controls, that was pretty much it. My girlfriend figured it out before I did, so I played a little more, but then I got disenchanted with it and gave it up. So did she, a little after that, too.
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### Author:  [@dbuzman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbuzman)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2009, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ps3-xbox-or-wii/492841/86 "2009-04-19T05:07:24Z")
Todays woot is a refurbed xbox 360. [$140.00](http://www.woot.com/)
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### Author:  [@muzzynyc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muzzynyc)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ps3-xbox-or-wii/492841/87 "2009-04-20T18:40:06Z")
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> the PS3 reins supreme for the hardcore gamer(who refuses to try the Wii out of fear it will be as awesome as everyone says who actually has tried it) amd the 360 will be made pointless in a year or so when microsoft decides it has a newer shinier box to sell us and strips the shelf of everything 360 so its impossible to find and your forced to buy the newer xbox so it can compete with the ps3 as it ages gracefully.
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> and thats MHO
And DO be sure to take this last bit as his Honest Opinion. The garbage about MS planning on raping your wallet by introducing a new console has no basis in fact and is just the spilling of a childish glass of haterade. There are plenty of points to be made for the PS3 and against the 360, but this isn’t one of them.
The conjecture on this iteration of consoles is that they’re going to be around for a while, yet, before the next generation reaches for our pocketbooks.
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