360 vs. PS3 vs. Wii - The Designer's Perspective

[wraggster]

Gamasutra is running a piece today written by Ernest Adams, a frequent contributor to the site and an amusingly opinionated game designer. He writes to weigh in on the console war debate from the perspective of a game designer. He runs down the usual list of pros and cons for each machine, and then digs into the most creative aspects of each machine. Finally, lays out what he sees as the end result of this hardware generation:

"So who, at the end of the day, will be the also-ran in this generation of consoles? On the global scale, I'd say it could well be neither the PS3 or the Wii, but the Xbox 360. The PS3 will win over the hardcore gamers who have to have the fastest, most amazing machine available. The Wii will skim off the younger players and those who don't have as much money to spend. Both have the advantage of being made in Japan, so they'll crowd the Xbox right out of that market. In the US and Europe, it's harder to say, but I see the Xbox's early start as more of a liability than a benefit."

via slashdot (http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/22/1754252)

[zidanerick]

I disagree with this, i think the PS3 will be the loser in this battle, once Blu-Ray goes the way of the Dodo the 360 will be hot property for its HD-DVD Player and cheaper pricetag

[gdf]

lots of people like myself have simply given up on the ps3. a heap of my friends are buying them and cannot afford or be assed with sony's next gen hardware. id like to see sony lose the "console war" as that might bring them back down to earth and let them focus on the games again for ps4. hell, sony losing would benefit everyone, even themselves!