Wii or Kinect or PS Move - which one should I buy

Which motion-sensor console should I buy?

  • Wii

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Kinect

    Votes: 4 44.4%
  • PS Move

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Something else

    Votes: 1 11.1%
  • Don't bother buying any of them

    Votes: 4 44.4%

How old is your son? If over 10, go PS3 or XBox. My Wii sees almost no use by the kids at all anymore. We occassionally play mariocart (great family game even with teens) and guitar hero. The PS3, otoh, streams hi quality video, and is played by both sons. It is still one of the best blu ray devices on the market.

I have played the xBOx kinect, and it is really quite impressive. My room is too small for it though. Also, as someone said, what systems do your son's friends use?

I'd vote no to the Wii if you have an older child.
 

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And I lied before, I actually do have a big complaint about the Xbox and it's not a minor issue either. Mine is a 4GB slim and it keeps wiping my USB thumb drives, seemingly at random as I cannot discern any pattern to the incidents. This effectively means using USB thumb drives for extra drive space and saved games is utterly pointless since if I can't predict what is wiping them, I can't prevent it or work around it. I've tried three different manufacturers, and four different physical drives and it happens to all of them within a day or two.

I've since resolved to get a 250gb xbox drive but quite frankly I think this situation is unacceptable and literally forces you into purchasing an extra product just to make effective use of the console.

That does suck, and is one of the ways MS nickels and dimes you. Halo3 for instance will not play online campaign mode without a hard-drive.

I would never recommend anybody to buy the 4GB unless they are replacing a dead xbox (and thus are moving the drive into it).
 

That does suck, and is one of the ways MS nickels and dimes you. Halo3 for instance will not play online campaign mode without a hard-drive.

I would never recommend anybody to buy the 4GB unless they are replacing a dead xbox (and thus are moving the drive into it).

Oh, I would.

Mine cost me $148 AUD and I'm getting a 320GB drive for $99 AUD. Try finding a 320GB Xbox for $257 AUD!
 

I'd like to share my recent adventures in Xbox, and Kinect, ownership...

A friend of mine gave me the old 360 Elite he never used anymore. He made sure it worked and factory-reset it before handing it off.

I set it up, made sure it worked, then ordered a wifi adapter, Kinect, and two Kinect games.

(A week passes while Amazon ships me the stuff. The Xbox remains off.)

Yesterday, I connected the wife adapter, created a Live profile, etc. So far, so good.

After connecting Kinect, I was beginning to calibrate it when the screen filled with garbage and froze...

... okay, no problem, just power off/on...

... after which three curious red lights around the power button began flashing, and nothing appeared on screen.

Yes, after using the Xbox for all of 15 minutes, it red-ringed! So now I have choice: ship the peripherals and games I just bought back...

... or suck it up and buy a new Xbox. Well, the wife was interested in Kinect games, and Microsoft *did* seem to fix the RRoD issue(s). So consumerism won out, and I picked up a 4GB Slim at a local GameStop (I can cannibalize the 120 GB drive from the dead Elite).

Now the story has a a happy-ish ending: the new Slim works fine (so far!) and Kinect is pretty damn cool, especially to someone who doesn't own a Wii.

Effing Microsoft and their fatal design flaws...
 


If you're specifically looking for motion-based play, you really have no choice but to go with the Wii. Third party developers have largely ignored the possibilities of these control schemes - shovelware aside - so you have to rely on first party titles. Microsoft has mostly produced their own shovelware for Kinect, and Sony has limited the degree they implement motion control even in their first-party titles. Nintendo focused on motion control and is pretty much the only company that's demonstrated facility with them.

If you're interested in a console and the motion controls are just an extra, the PS3 and 360 both have deeper libraries of (good) games at this point. Most of those games are cross-platform, so you're mostly choosing between a small number of exclusives. For my purposes, the PS3 library is the more appealing of the two - Valkyria Chronicles, Metal Gear Solid 4, the Uncharted series, God of War 3, Dark Souls and Demon's Souls, for example, as opposed to Fable 2 and 3, Halo 3 and 4, and the Gears series.

With that said, Kinect is the most impressive tech. The PS Move and the Wiimote are effectively the same, despite working in different ways, whereas the Kinect is genuinely something new, and something really neat. Unfortunately, the Kinect is kind of buggy in terms of games with any degree of depth. It's not yet clear if the technology just isn't there yet, or if the ideas about how to use it aren't there yet.

The PS Move, sadly, just isn't used that much despite being the best of the three in terms of actual gameplay. It's very precise and does everything a fully-upgraded Wiimote does, it's been well implemented when it is used, but there's very little to do with it.
 

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