State of the Union
Well, there are a few things that should be addressed here.
Now, being the owner of a 360, I am satisfied with it. Buying it felt dirty, but I did it and it also felt kinda nice. It has and will, I’m sure, continue to receive exclusive titles that are snazzy.
That having been said, the PS3 is finally beginning to rear its head. Let’s be serious here:
-HD DVD is dead, blu-Ray wins the format war. Blu-Rays can be directly copied from a PS3 to a PSP so you can take them on the go
-The PSP interfaces beautifully with the PS3, all the way from downloading demos for it to using your PSP as a remote for your PS3 (say you’re arriving home and want to hear some tunes…good thing the PS3 in your living room contains all your music and is able to be remotely powered on by your PSP. As you enter your house, Led Zepplin starts to play) to being able to access any multimedia on your PS3 from video to music to photos from anywhere with wireless internet, to being ablt to play PS1 games that are in the disc drive of your PS3 over wireless internet. Several games also take advantage of the PSP and use it to display things like the rear-view mirror of a racecar
- FIRMWARE UPDATES. Holy crap, I’ve never been excited for something so dorky. Most of the previously mentioned things were not originally part of the PS3, but were added through firmware updates which usually add great features. The most recent one included a replacement to PSN’s admittedly badly designed online store.
-Oh yeah, online store. Though not as robust as XBL, PSN has a heap of games, mostly casual style ones, and add-on content for several games. The downloading mechanics are pretty slick for videos and demos, and can remain active behind games being played etc.
-GAMES. Finally. What started as a library which was largely parallel with X-Box’s is beginning to sway the other way. June 12th will be a day of reckoning, when MGS4 releases. Many games are still largely smoke and mirrors, such as Prototype and a certain epic series of J-RPGs, but exclusive content is enough to make my heart pitter-patter. And the summer won’t be without releases, such as Quake Wars right before MGS, and Soul Calibur(If if doesn’t change) mid June. What’s also striking is the PS2 releases worth getting excited about, FES not the least of them. Oh, by the way.
-GTA. Soon.
-The mother of all things hyped: Home. Sony sure seems to be taking their sweet time, though not without good cause. They want something on-par with XBL, and they want to do it from day one as opposed to building a network over two console’s worth of development time.
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