Movie buffs reveal next-gen console midterm grades |
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Unforgiving critics themselves, entertainment media mogul Entertainment Weekly took a step back to review their impressions of today's next-generation consoles: the Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, and Sony PlayStation 3. And it appears that they were no more excited for any of the consoles than they were the first time around.
The Xbox 360 hasn't changed in grade at all, with their midterm impressions not changing from their first encounter with the console. They leave the grade at A- in anticipation of a price cut this year, although they do agree that the Wii may take the throne soon. They note that a strong game lineup and a good online network will keep the Xbox 360 as "the console to beat," although it must be fair to point out that it just celebrated its first anniversary while the other two are still starting out.
The Nintendo Wii, according to Entertainment Weekly, is the probably the biggest disappointment to them - dropping from a high B+ to a low B- - after a drought of really good games had the console giving off the first signs of "Wii-nnuii." The lackluster lineup of titles has outweighed the console's growing sales numbers and the lack of truly online games tip the balance against the Wii's favor. Even one of Nintendo's big three titles is enough to bring their Wii-nthusiasm back, but as they say, "no one's likely to care."
The PlayStation 3 is a technological marvel to the movie critics, especially because they are fans of the high-definition movie experience. The HDMI and the Blu-Ray DVD experience is one thing to behold in the CELL-powered console, something that even the Xbox 360 Elite lacked without a packaged HD-DVD add-on.
The game lineup for the PlayStation 3 isn't any more varied than the Wii, and Sony's lack of a "bold executive decision" to slash prices left the reviewers no choice other than to dip the grade. But just in case Sony does drop the price just once before Christmas, they're temporarily notching the score at a B- from their first impression of a B.
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Now thats just bullcrap, you know the PS3 is the smartest one there, the Xbox360 is a frikkin pothead
are always going to change the outcome, i mean, if halo 3 and MGS4 switched exclusiveness (halo3 as ps3 exclusive and MGS4 as 360 exclusive) i promise you! that many would ether b!itch and wine and start many crapy online petitions, or simply except it and buy the console...
What the F_uck! A low B! Thats bullsh-it! Wii should at least be an A-
halo is not made by microsoft just bought bungie. original it was exclusive for apple owners, cheap bastards M$. 30% failure rate for 360, while ps3 zero to hero no doom. "360 is Games for Windows duhh no need to buy xbox." gear of war on pc, lol true. no need pay to play online xbox. bigger games won't have room to complete 1 disc except for ps3. worth the price to ps3 now price cut. 360 elite is so lame its the 5th broken xbox, haha. xbox does take up more space than ps3 literally. watch this proves everthing and the music in ps3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrdE11_iYK8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Edestructoid%2Ecom%2Fps3%2Dfanboy%2Dvideo%2Dproves%2Dthat%2D99%2D9%2Dof%2Dyoutube%2Dusers%2Dare%2Dstupid%2Das%2Dhell%2D33631%2Ephtml
PS3 should have been the top easily, best HiDef and DVD player by far. The Wii can't play DVDs. The 360 has dreadful DVD playback and is a handicapped HDDVD player, which can't support all the available video and audio formats on HDDVD, and has problems playing all the discs even
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Ps3 a B?! Wtf?! Those movie industry jerks know nothing about concoles..I own all three and I favor the PS3 over everything else..Xbox is great...except all it has are shooter titles... Wii is fine but very lacking in Games [All I'm using my Wii for is Virtual Console titles...I mean I own 6 games on the Wii..only 6!] PS3 has it all...Bluray movies [they kick Azz!] Awesome Graphics and games that are fun to play..even though I will admit the Sixaxis motion sensors are a little meh...that's just me.. Still, I give the PS3 an A+ for what it's worth. The Wii an A and the Xbox 360 an A-...remember that's just me so don't go hating me Xbox fan boys - remember I own one of each system so technically I'm one of you too!
Me and half the people that have PS3s didnt buy it because of blu-ray, yet every1 make it seem that way... Its like saying if HD-DVD was built in the 360 people say its the star feature and you'll be like huh? I bought my PS3 for MGS4, killzone 2, Heavenly sword, Warhawk, lair, every other thing coming out plus now Home.
Stfu with da links to PS3 or 360 sucks videos...
why do individuals in here assume every human beign is mature and intelligent there are people buying a system with a 33% failure rate percentage for christ sake and they are happy that should it ever break at any moment,they will have to part from it for 4 days until it returns to them. so you buy your newest game today,start playing it online with excitment a little more than the usual,and suddenly the system fails and you have to part from it and your newly purchased game for 4 days if not more why would anyone want to buy such a continous headache ?? the Catastrophy is that there are people who are defending a company that rushed a defected product into the market. Entertainment weekly are doing there job to advertize for microsoft and the 360,dont blame them...they are paid for it blame the idiots who go out to buy a system that can break at any moment,with 1 billion dollar reserved for repairing just imagine how many 360,s have broken and how many will Break !!! this also suugest that the problem is concerned with multiple hardware issues [as moore said byhimself],including the GPU,CPU and motherboard meaning that MS found its self unable to solve the problem since it consist the entire architicture of the 360 system and the GPU "Xenos" which is an untested prototype not tested for long-term reliability thus it overheats causing the meltdown and complete system failure but i guess it doesnt matter.....people will always side with their religion even if they were foolish enough not to realize that they never chose that religion.....they were just born with it ,forced with it,they never had a choice at least when buying a multi-media system,you have a choice.....
(((( Cut the price to $500, and if that doesn't move units, prepare to cut the price some more. ))) you idiots its not even winter and could not wait after e3 big day. ps3 is already getting the price cut. wrong day to submit this grading article. listen to egm mag to tell you this year thought about it. rumble is already going to come back.
360 is already bad for having 30% failure rate that is like BS grading for a- console. maybe they should try running happy horrible vista
I agree 100%
A low B is completly unfair, it should be more like an average C.
Dude you do not know that you tottally contradicted your self there.
that they didn't mention about games at all when they talked about ps3, and criticized wii for it >.> No one gives a crap if something can play dvds on a console... Go get a 20 dollar dvd player to do that...
I own more shooters on the ps3 then xbox360 you dumbass fanboy.
I love the ps3. But it doesn't have many games right now. my 360 has only broken once. And I won't sell it...because I have games that I love. you fanboy need to just calm down. The ps3 will get better games soon. But no reason to hate on the 360. Sure it might have a high failure rate but so did the ps2.
PS2 has nothing to do with the failure rate of the PS3...they used cheap quality materials in order to make the PS2 at a more reasonable price at 299, and believe me, seven years ago, the inflation is not as bad...and PS3 is 599 dollars, partly because of its robust entertainment features and partly because of its high quality materials, in fact, PS3 is probably the highest quality console out right now, then Wii, than 360, which is worst.
cok sucker...
it was the editors not the actual movie industry that rated the systems. I have the issue, and the thing is lame. Here's what the real movie buffs had to say about the PS3. http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=273 Almost unanimously voted for by both forum and staff members, Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) became the Blu-ray player to own soon after its release last November. Since then, the popular game machine has received numerous updates, all accessible through the machine's built-in Internet ports, to provide increased stability and features. Most recently, Sony added DVD upconversion to the list of features, and overnight the PS3 became one of the top DVD players on the market as well. Like most players, there were some initial issues, but the flexible nature of the PS3 hardware meant quick fixes for Blu-ray enthusiasts. BD-Java updates were also distributed quickly, usually before the title utilizing those new features ever hit store shelves. The inclusion of Dolby TrueHD and upgrade to 24p video output means that the console is equally applicable to both the casual movie watcher and dedicated home theater enthusiast. The strength of the player comes from its awesome processing power. This means that upcoming advances like DTS Master Audio and BD-Java Picture-in-Picture (PIP) are not totally out of the question (though no promises to their addition have been made). Still, the future looks very bright for the PS3 as a Blu-ray player. With an expected price drop for the holiday season, this will not only be the best Blu-ray player available, but also remain one of the cheapest.
They were not rating the systems based on movie playback, but it was movie buffs giving their view of how the systems are doing, as GAMES systems. This is why they add online features and games lineup to their equation....not just straight movie playback. Because then the PS3 would have to go first then 360 and they shouldn't even mention wii since it really doesn't play movies...even DVDs... Why do they mention Blu-ray you ask ? Well, many, many, many people see it as the only reason to get a PS3....as does entertainment weekly....without it their score would have been a C or C+ max.
F.U.C.K you shaterdome. Nerd
good call
So, are you, someone who doesn't know the difference between there and their, claiming to be intelligent? Interesting BTW, a simple Google search for "xbox 360 design flaw" will reveal why the 360 defect rate is so high, and it's not because "the GPU "Xenos" which is an untested prototype not tested for long-term reliability thus it overheats causing the meltdown and complete system failure" Try putting at least a little effort into your comments, especially if you're going to try to make it sound like you know what you're talking about when you really don't, something you fail at miserably
Read what I said... I hate when people assume is what I said. People are dumbas5s thats why they say that 5hit. Cause I know my PS3 is gonna be put to use with all the games that are coming. (And the ones that just came)
Actually thats part of da problem... If it keeps overheating it will eventually die out.
Resistance, R6V, Motorstorm n others. but mostly da 360 has what? Gears n GRAW 2 or somthing... Well lets base it on exclusives mainly. See what im saying...?
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