Thread: Bleach for the wii

Originally Posted by OdysseanPromise

Has Microsoft or ESPECIALLY SONY done anything right with this latest generation of consoles?

Furthermore, Microsoft isn't really interested in fighters, only shooters.

Besides the b-e-a-utiful graphics and smooth transition of game-play in a few of my fav. games? Not really. Almost every gamer knows that these two companies won't start dishing out the good stuff until mid way through their second year. Actually I'll say more like their 3rd year, and to be quite honest aside from the blue ray drive (which they haven't taken advantage of yet) Sony hasn't impressed me at all. Microsoft's "ace in the hole" will be released November 08' and all hell will break loose! If you ask me, I would say Microsoft still has a better console (until Sony finds a way to utilize the $600.00 blue ray drive). It also depends on the player, some want graphics, some want game-play, and others want both. The way I look at it Nintendo has game-play, Sony & Microsoft have Game-play and graphics; it just depends on the title. Personally I was a "Sony guy" until the release of the X-box and I haven't looked back since. Don't get me wrong, the PS3 is a beast of a system (if I had the cash I would purchase both) but when I get the cash I'm getting my trigger happy fingers on a 360! I also agree with you on the sense that Microsoft has pretty much mastered the "shooter category", but I definitely wouldn't count them out of the "fighters" just yet. If they can find a software co. bold enough (and good enough) to blend the immense graphics of DOA 4 with the game-play of Street Fighter/King of fighters it would be game over for the competition. Sony needs to utilize their consoles power and put it to use quickly. I don't hear too much about their games (not nearly as much since it was finally released). So I guess I can say that Microsoft has done some things right (but needs to polish it up) and this needs to be done before Halo 3 is released. That game alone is reason enough to buy a 360, and it will definitely be "the" biggest anticipation of Christmas 08' but they can't put all of their plans around it. They need other titles to bring people in, as hard as it is for me to say this (since I am hopelessly addicted to it) not everyone likes the Halo series. So they need to discover another powerhouse that's in a different genre (action, rpg, fighter, etc.) since the Halo series has completely and utterly dominated the FPS genre. I really don't have too much advice for Sony, but they have the titles, they have the cash, all they really need to do is "push the hardware". It costs over $600.00, they should make it work for every penny.