I know I know, the bluray. But I can just get a blu-ray dvd player.
Wii has Guitar Hero and Rock Band now and they never made a sequel for sniper elite, so is there any reason to not get the Wii and go with a PS3 instead?
Only you can answer this question.
- Look at a list of games each console has to offer.
- Go to Best Buy/Gamestop/etc. and play with their setups to see if you love/hate one particular controller.
- Look at that list of games again.
- Make your decision.
PS3 is a nice media player, it will display photos, play music, and video files. You can use the internal drive, hook up external drives to it, or stream media to it over the network from a PC.
I finally bought myself a PS3 on Saturday now that the PS3 slim is out. I didn’t need all those USB ports or card slots. I definitely didn’t want to pay $400 for one. But the $300 price point finally got the system to a price I’d be willing to pay. Plus, I’ve finally been wanting a Blu-Ray player and the only other one I was interested in (a Samsung) would cost me $200 plus another $80 so that I could get it online wirelessly to use the Netflix streaming feature (and get the stupid DRM updates.) I didn’t want to get another DVD player because the upscaling one I currently have is a piece of junk. Plus, with Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction being at a reasonable price and the next one coming out in a few weeks there were finally enough games for me to be interested. The new Katamari game is attractive too and there are a few games I’m interested in on the Playstation Network.
I think the Wii has less song downloads for Rockband and Guitar Hero if that matters to you.
If you don’t care about HD games, there’s absolutely no reason not to get a Wii instead.
If you’re a gamer, however, the Wii and the PS3 aren’t even in the same league. One is a gimped laptop from 2003 and one is a functional modern computer with media-streaming and the latest high-density storage format. Take a look at some of the games on each system before you make a decision, if you have any interest in the experiences therefrom. It’s night and day, both in terms of technology and online interface.
Justin Bailey? Paging Justin Bailey?
At the moment, the Wii has fewer song downloads for Rock Band. About five of them. One of which is ‘Charlene’ by Steven and the Colberts.
However, there is an issue with the lack of a hard drive, and the 2-gig limit in Rock Band 2 for downloading music onto the SD card. (The game is older than the SDHC patch for the Wii, and thus can not work with it.)
That said, with Blu-Ray drives now hitting the $99 point repeatedly, (Seen: Newegg, Wal-Mart.) the only reason to get one is if you really, really like Metal Gear Solid, God of War III, Gran Turismo 5, or Little Big Planet.
I do not know if Rock Band: The Beatles has SDHC support. Asking a contact at Harmonix. More information as I hear it. Rock Band 3 will almost certainly have it.
The choice presented was Wii vs. PS3, not PS3 vs. 360. So there’s a lot more reasons than just those 4 games.
For me, it’s not even a close decision. I’ve played one really good game for the Wii so far, and it’s not even out in the US yet.
Bullshit. I work in the games industry–I play more games than just about anyone. I am, for in practicality, the quintessential “gamer” (however that term may be defined). It’s true the Wiis technical specs are inferior–whenever has that been a barrier for a game to be good? Fantastic games have been made for generations prior to the 360 and PS3, and their existence doesn’t nullify that.
It is true, however, that the Wii’s library of games is quite different in some ways to that of the other two consoles (half of its library*, for instance, doesn’t consist of FPSs). Unless you’re hellbent on owning a console capable of HD, you’re certainly better off comparing what games you’d like to play and see which console best supports that style.
True. I do believe that Guitar Hero 5 supports up to 32-gig cards, however, and provides access to the same exact store that the Wii and 360 ones do. According to the developer, it’s feature-identical to the others (not including the few Wii additions they did add).
*hyperbole intentionally applied for effect.
*PS3 and 360.
That’s nice, dear. I work in the games industry, technically, although more on the ‘front lines’ than for most folks who can make that claim. And yes, I play about twice as many games as most gamers and some embarrassing order-of-magnitude more than most people on this board. I am the very model of a modern geek-out gamerboy. Still, my response to this thread came more from what I see from the population in my area: the people who buy Wii games and the people who buy 360/PS3 games are fundamentally different both in spending habits and their desires from and dedication to the hobby-industry of Gaming.
With the exceptions of a few honorable names mentioned in this thread, most people see a multiplatform game coming out, and their response is only, “oh boy! I can’t wait to get this for my Wii!” if and only if they do not have easy access to a PS3 or 360 in their household. If it’s a game that’s developed for multiple platforms - which, I’ll remind, is the majority of games these days - then the Wii version always has major changes, often edging on the inferior. Here are some indicators: some enthusiast magazines now have a “The Wii Version” section for reviews which point out the differences, since they’re often significant enough to change the overall score. Also, there have been plenty of cases where the Wii version of a multiplatform release is not merely a standard-def port of the PS3/360 versions, but actually a coded port of the Playstation 2 version, with one or two of the button presses replaced with an imprecise gesture or waggle of the Wiimote.
Did everyone see what I just wrote? Ports of Playstation 2 games are among the best games on the Wii. That’s a console that’s almost a decade old. Consider what your home computer around a decade ago was capable of, and then consider that game consoles are pretty much dedicated computers.
But this is all moot. The games of which I’m thinking (Okami, Phantom Brave, Rygar) are still some of my most favorite games in this generation or the last, and I’ve bought a couple of them on the Wii again just to have them in widescreen (tho I will admit the mandatory waggle in Okami was poorly tuned and annoyed me to high hell). With these and also with exemplary games like Super Mario Galaxy, Wii Sports Resort, and now Muramasa, the Wii definitely has a decent spread of options for new gamers. There are even brilliant hardcore games finding a home on the Wii’s downloadables space, such as Bit Trip Beat, Contra Rebrith, and Cave Story. I’m of no delusion that great, innovative games don’t come to a Wii owner.
But that wasn’t the question I saw in the OP, and it wasn’t the question I was intending to answer. The OP did not mention brilliant and innovative games to find on the Wii. They mentioned Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and then Sniper Elite. The first two are multiplatform, party-based titles, which won’t suffer overmuch from being played on a Wii (but will, nonetheless, still suffer). The third–hi, Opal Barchetta–is a fucking FPS.
I took this, as I do everytime I do a cold reading on someone who wants to tap into my expertise to buy some games, to indicate what types of games they were interested in playing. And for those types of games, the latter especially, the Wii is a choice I would only make at gunpoint or for someone for whom I held a serious grudge.
Here’s the Cliffnotes version: To say I think the Wii doesn’t offer some pretty excellent games and worthwhile experiences is misguided - I know it does. To say I think someone who has the money for both the Wii and a random Blu-Ray player should just get the Wii and a PS3 instead, and have access to experiences both online and off, motion control and button-based, hi-def and standard-def, inexpensive and decidedly not–is pretty much exactly what I’m saying.
If my initial reply was blunt, I blame sleep deprivation and the fact that the OP was so short and made such a bizarre and offhanded comparison between two radically different experiences that I decided to shoot one back. I knew that at least one poster I respect would take umbrage to the finality of my post, which I hope will be forgiven.
But, seriously, the title of the post is “Why buy a PS3,” and it goes on to compare two consoles that offer wildly different things as having exactly the same value. I did not write Post #6 seriously for a reason.
The Wii is an excellent choice for a certain kind of consumer. Admitting that you have the option to by either (or even both) a Wii or a PS3 and literally see no reason why there’s a difference is woefully misinformed at best and a simple troll at worst.
I’m not bothered because I mind the pure humor of a simple trolling, but because my desire to spread my opinion informatively on this site is hampered by my responding simply to an OP which is insultingly simple.
Fair enough. I don’t agree with every one of your points, but I now understand where you’re coming from. Your elaboration certainly helped clarify the seemingly abrupt “If you’re a game…Wii and the PS3 aren’t even in the same league” comment.
Rereading the OP, it does seem to be a loaded question that would be more at home on GameFaqs as opposed to the dope.
I disagree. Wii has more going against it than just not being in HD. I don’t care about HD, but I still went with a 360 over a Wii, simply because the types of games you get on Wii are different than what you get on 360 or PS3. And the few games that are on all three systems are going to look worse on Wii (even if played in SD) and often have some convoluted wiggle controls thrown on. Which is great if that’s what you’re looking for, but if you want a more traditional experience, Wii is probably not the right choice.
ETA… which you pretty much cover in a later post… Sigh
Well it was not intended to be a loaded question.
The point that a few have brought up and was the sort of answer that I was looking for was that even in the cross-platform games, the Wii version will not be as good as the PS3 version.
I’m a Wii owner, and tonight I saw they’re starting to run commercials for PS3 selling for $299.
I like my Wii, my SO and kids LOVE the Wii, but for only $299 for a PS3, I’m seriously starting to consider getting one. If only because a Blu-Ray player is going to run you $200+.
I kinda bought the Wii thinking I’d love interactive games, but it turns out after spending 7 hours a day, 6 days a week on my feet, I just don’t have the energy to come home and play a game requiring standing/swinging (I love Tiger Woods '10, but my legs don’t wanna stand and swing for a 30+ minutes for an 18 hole course.)
A simple 6 hour couch session pushing simple remote buttons seems awfully tempting after a long shift at work. I think it goes without mention that the graphics are a million times better on PS3/XBOX360 if that weighs heavily into your thinking.
Since you’ve returned to the thread, I should apologize that I made light of your question - opinions on games tend to be pretty heated, and the ease of the comparison in your OP struck me as similar to a pretty familiar argument about HD vs SD, among other things.
And, to Red Barchetta, thanks for your understanding in about the hastiness in my replies. I did use my bleariness to shoot off in a way I only would around certain hardcore customers of mine.
I should know better than to hit the Reply button when I’m high on energy and low on sleep :eek:
Is that a Metroid signal I see in the sky? That’ll teach me to fall asleep at 1 AM.
Anyway… yeah, I could go on at length about defending the Wii. But Saint Cad seems particularly interested in cross-platform, of which the Wii has few standouts. If you’re only interested in the Guitar Hero/Rock Band games, then yeah, the Wii is almost a better bet than the other two systems because you’ll get the same functionality for a cheaper price. And the Wii’s exclusives can’t be beat. If you’re more interested in games like Mario Kart than Modern Warfare, you don’t really have a decision to make, you have to get a Wii.
But if you’re going to own two systems, owning a PS3 and Xbox 360 is idiotic, but owning a Wii and Xbox 360 or PS3 is gaming perfection.
However, if you’re worried about multiplatform releases like GTA4 or Modern Warfare 2 or the like, you’d probably want the Xbox 360 instead. Because personally, I’ve seen nothing on the PS3 that would make me choose it over the Xbox 360.
Ghostbusters for the Wii is superior, IMHO, to Ghostbusters PS3.
My contact at Harmonix has confirmed, Beatles Wii will have SDHC support.