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Is the Xbox the Game Winner?
By Bryce Smith on December 20, 2009 |
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| Category: Computers & Games |
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Why should anyone choose the Xbox 360 over the other competing game consoles of the day? It's more advanced than some but boasts fewer benefits than others. It also happens to be the oldest of what is now considered the holy trinity of gaming consoles: The Wii, the Xbox and the Playstation. With all that choice out there, what makes this, the older one-by a whopping year and a bit-the one worth choosing?
Microsoft beat Sony to the next level of gaming by pushing up the Xbox 360 launch date by almost a full year. This push could have been a vast mistake, had the 360 been riddled with the problems of its predecessor the Xbox. The Xbox's complications and bugs are understandable, as it was Microsoft's first attempt at a gaming console. Bear in mind that Microsoft, at that time, was a software/hardware designer for personal computers...not gaming systems.
The Wii is a unique gaming experience, that's for sure. No one can argue that it offers something cool and allows you to play games in a way you've never done before. Okay, some people will argue against that and many will tell you the whole Wii controller is just ridiculous, but let's leave these varying opinions to the wayside for now.
There are games on all three of the main consoles that compete directly with one another. Whatever Microsoft and Sony want to claim, if someone owns all three consoles but chooses to buy a certain game on Wii instead of the others, then it's competition no matter how you draw it.
The games that are available to the Xbox 360 are far more advanced from a graphic point of view than those available for the Wii. They can also be designed to be more in depth and faster moving because the Xbox platform is just so powerful. In fact, many third party game designers can't or simply don't bother trying to put certain games on the Wii because it just won't do what they want.
Whether it was the fault of the Wii or the fact that people just didn't want it, the PS 3 didn't sell well. This means less people are using it which means a lot of the gaming experience that the Xbox 360 and PS 3 are built around are simply better with the former. With the online gaming world, for instance, would you rather play the games amongst a fan base of 30 million people with the Xbox, or less than 15 million with the PS 3?
Until there comes a time when there is a clear-cut, winning console in the gaming world, there is always going to be personal opinions as to what machine is better. It may be just a slight difference of better suited controllers or it might be the colors that encase the machine. Any way you look at it, gaming comes down to a choice. |
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