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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 3186960" data-attributes="member: 4779">Launches mean next to nothing.  It's all about the long haul and continued game releases.  The Wii should have a much better holiday season than the PS3, but anyone following these things has known that from the start as PS3 shortages were inevitable.  The question to really look at is if any of the systems will do as well as the PS2.  I say no but this will be the last holiday season on top for the PS2.While I like that Nintendo is trying to break the mold, I have yet to see anything either coming down the pipeline or currently in release that makes me have to go out and buy the Wii.  As a HD person who has spent lots of money on my setup, the controller alone is not enough to make me get one.  Nintendo may have had my money if the new Zelda was Wii only, but I know that it's a GC port not the other way around.I want to buy a Wii, I really do but there is no reason to do so at the moment.  They'll need more games to sell me.There is hate, there is love, there are people buying/selling the PS3 for twice its retail price.   Sounds like the PS2, to me.  There are technical advantages to both platforms from what I understand and programing was never something Sony has been a friend to.  However, they do have a stranglehold on Japan which will keep games flowing to the US and people will be snatching up PS3s as they come.  The real test is yet to come.  The 360 is doing well but it is the only next-gen show in town.Where will the bulk of the exclusives come from (typically Sony's strong area) and which console keeps the games flowing along with the extras like movies, HD movies, micro transactions and the like.  MS has an edge right now with their Xbox Live experience.  They have also scored big with things like putting GTA4 on their console as well as the PS3.  I'm excited about what is to come.  This is the first real console war with equal combatants since the Genesis/SNES. HD-movies, not so much with that it seems.  The HD just isn't big enough to hold more than one.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  I do like that shows are on the way but there isn't much there at the moment.  I'm curious to see where it goes.  I've never been a pay-per-view guy so it may not do much for me.  Pay-to-own is more where I'm at.I disagree on all points.The PS3/360 will go toe-to-toe this time around.  It will come down to who get the better games out there with more frequency.  Calling the PS3 DOA is folly.The Wii may do well but we'll see.  Where are the games?Talking about hard-core gamers?  The PC is a platform, that is for the really hard core.  Maybe you meant to say that the 360 will be the platform for the FPS/RTS hard-core?</blockquote>

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