No need for name calling Mr. editor. It’s fine of course to have opinions, but this looks pretty childish in the way it was written, not to mention some of your comments.

I love how everyone is getting angry at Lono, sure his opinion is irksome sometimes, but hey thats just the way he is.

Its not like he is going to change your opinion (or indeed his own), so why the anger? Plus he is right on most points.

It definitely isn’t the year for Sony… but lets be honest here: It’s boohoo as well for the xbox360. $199 pricing still hasn’t brought it anywhere near Wii Sales. I l laugh at all the 360 fanbois who need to give themselves and their righteous dictionaries a slap in their own faces.

Sad but true.

@Lono oh yeah … don’t even pretend. It’s written all over your e like an inmate’s pearl necklace on your face.

only fanbois flame other fanbois. Face the facts. I have.

About the “opinion as fact” thing,
Don’t you think it’s a little slanted to say the ps3 sales are flat and it hasn’t done jack, but the PS3 actually won out in terms of worldwide sales in Q2?
And also to say that blu ray hasn’t taken off as expected, even though it has outpaced DVD adoption?

Bottom line? PS3 has enough content to make it worthwhile. No 360-only owner could possibly argue that games like Uncharted, Ratchet, MGS4 and LBP are “bad” games, therefore they deserve to be played by any avid gamer.

I’m simply content in the fact that I own both systems, I can choose to ignore the junk and embrace the great releases no matter what system they’re on. Bi-console FTW baby.

(and frankly, I wouldn’t be too disappointed if I only had a ps3. That’s how my next-gen life began after all).

Well obviously I didn’t mean Q2 sales account for the whole year. What I was pointing out was that the ps3 made a significant jump. Does that make it PS3′s “year”? Nope, But to only show one side of the story does it a disservice.

wow this thing has really turned into an attack against Lono. The guy is simply stating his opinion with fact. The same some sony fanboys won’t purchase a 360 cuz of RROD. Even though a 360 owner will tell you that RROD is not that bad anymore it’s a fact that RROD is/was a problem and it’s also your opinion as to that being the reason why you won’t purchase a 360.

Fact of the matter is this as I’ve states in my previous post. Sony has done nothing to retake it’s dominate postion in gaming with the exception of talking about what they are going to do i.e they haven’t done anything yet. The major games most sony fanboys are looking for don’t even have a solid release date. GOW 3 being the biggest. yet it’s one reason many bought a ps3 so early including me.

No one can say the ps3 is a total failure, but no one and i mean no one here can say sony is giving the ps3 and it’s fanbase total dedication either.

For “off the shelf” games, I’d find it hard to disagree to an extent. But I wanted a Blu-Ray player too (and am very happy with it for that) – you can still only get a standalone one in the UK for £50 less than a PS3.

The difference for me is that the sort of games I like playing are the sort that the PSN has had in abundance. I got an idea, before both consoles came out, of what Microsoft and Sony were doing with the downloadable stuff and preferred the sound of Sony’s approach. I can stand by that now I’ve seen both. Additionally, I’m one of those people you call “time poor” – I like to do a bit of online gaming but I in no way do enough to justify a subscription to do it.

You’re right in saying that it’s failing to make as much of an impression as it could, partly because of the price tag and partly because the PC architecture of the 360 makes it easy to do a top notch conversion, whereas the PS3 is harder work and the developers have to think it’s worth their time and money putting it in.

I’m still happy with mine though. Even with “on the shelf”, I’ve got LittleBigPlanet, MGS4 and Ratchet & Clank which I couldn’t get on the other one. For sheer number of quality “off the shelf” titles, the 360 does “win” (whatever that means) right now but I’ve only got so much disposable time and income and there’s more than enough on the PS3 (especially with the network stuff, and free online gaming) to make it worthwhile for me. The differential for me was therefore what else it could do. I can see where you’re coming from – if I still had time (or wanted) to be a “hardcore” gamer that could put in tens of hours a week, and I wasn’t bothered about hi-def movies (on disc), the 360 would have probably been the better option.

The only thing that I’d like to complain about is the following:

Why are there so many people blaming the PS3, as a stand-alone console, for the lack of competitive multi-platform titles?As freaking as it may sound – only because it’s a PS3 it cannot boost the heck out of a DVD. It’s a question that the developers should be asked for. Of course, the PS3 may be difficult to handle, I accept this. But in the same way we must accept the fact of MGS4 being out there, proving the Ps3 is indeed capable of doing amazing things. So, logically, you cant blame the system as itself.

Whilst I disagree with what Lono has posted, he is entilted to his opinion. Just seems like this is become a little bit of an attack on him unfortunately.

I’m not gonna hate on you for having your own opinion. Everyone is entitled to one, and some of you should have learned that. I agree, this isn’t the “year of the PS3,” like Sony hyped it to be, but it certainly isn’t the “year of the Xbox 360.” Their main problem is that Sony release good games in times when no one will by them, and don’t advertise for the games that are good to come out, because they don’t want to take risks. I’m sure you already know this.
BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT…
But, I can’t figure out how you can say that Fallout 3 or Bioshock have worse graphics on PS3. They have much better graphics than the Xbox 360 version. Now if, you were comparing Mirror’s Edge or Orange Box, I could see a fair point; but if you had compared a game such as Mercenaries 2, you would have been sadly murdered by how much you failed in your opinion, because although the game [overall] sucks, the 360′s graphics on it are much, MUCH worse. (now I’m sure you’re thinking in your head, “oh, Mercs 2, and what else?! Yeah. That’s right…”)

Now, I too am pissed. I have a $600 [almost useless] brick in my living room. But I have too much going on in my life to deal with that. I have a life. Your career is based on what you do here, mine is elsewhere. So, I don’t care… happy? [I can not believe I actually posted a comment on one of these again... I feel like I'm back in high school]

Okay, so, I agree. It was not “The Year of the PS3.” That would suggest some kind of overwhelming dominance over every other gaming console.

It was just a bunch of lame hype that I’ve come to expect from every industry and every company in order to sell their stuff an make money.

Putting that aside, (“That” being all silly console war stuff) I am absolutely 100% satisfied with my PS3. And that’s really what counts in the end.

The 360 and the PS3 are both great systems, and depending on what you want to get out of your gaming system, either choice can be the correct one.

To put it another way, BOTH systems have pros AND cons. There was a large list in this article compiled to prove that it wasn’t the “Year of the PS3,” but an equally long list can be created for the 360.

And yes, I know. No one said it was the year of the 360, and that’s all this article is really saying: it’s not the year of the PS3.

But my point is it doesn’t HAVE to be the year of the PS3 for it to be a good console choice.

Buy both systems and shut the funk up already. My PS3 rocks, My xbox 360 Rocks, I usually go with the PS3 version of multi-platform games recently, such as Dead Space (just go out & buy it) and Force Unleased for some minor differences like vsync issues (tearing) and slightly lower res textures in some cases on the 360. I believe we are starting to see some limitations of the 360 where features have yet to be utilized and are just being understood by a few developers for the ps3.

That of course won’t stop me from a 5 hour game session on gears 2 horde more of course. Each system has it’s strong points; the 360 being market saturation as all of our friends own one and the brilliant idea of including a gaming headset albeit a terrible one in every system thus further making the online “live” feeling possible by easily communicating with the person you just knifed in COD4 instead of just running around in silence.

However, I know my PS3 is a higher end machine; It’s a network media center (yeah who cares) but blueray’s are wild. The system is reliable, it’s quite, has a higher potential in gaming performance and in same cases, already realized such as MGS4, Uncharted, etc.. and it will continue to expand it’s capabilities.

I am amazed by how many features and forward thinking ideas have been implemented through constant updates to the Ps3. I can honestly say it feels like I made an investment in high end equipment which upgrades itself. Something I cannot say about any other gadgetry I own. Any of you who do not own a PS3 would really enjoy it if and when you do purchase one for the media capabilities alone.

We can say anything we want to about the current state of our consoles, however I believe had Sony simply included a headset with their system from the beginning, the playing field would have been leveled, because great gaming experiences is what makes great games…just look at the funky little cute but nasty looking Wii, it’s amazing because it’s about creating experiences. The 360 marketing strategy is about people connectting, live, etc.etc. Something they do right, because of a $2.00 headset. So much so, they are able to loose 1.1 billion in repairs and a good percentage of their market to the competition because of faulty hardware but still manage to dominate in sales. I personally know and play with 9 people online 6 of which have lost their xbox’s to RROD, 2 of those 6 had it happen multiple times which truly is absurd. My box is super ventilated and I purchased it off ebay purposely so I know it had good use and survived and manf. defects and thus works perfectly.

Point being…… Your missing out if you have only one system and if your missing out then your opinions are bias, so again buy both systems and shut the funk up already.

@ Duty Guy

Insults. Way to defeat yourself

@ Lono.

Here’s to next year…?

Will it be another.. nearly year for sony?

I’ll have to agree. Even as a fan of Sony (although they are a little or a lot pricey) I must say this is not the year of the PS3, BUT it is the year the PS3 did begin to pick up steam AND it outsold the 360 by a small margin most of the year with less AAA games and a higher price point. Maybe next year, hopefully with a price drop around the time God of War 3 comes out and maybe the Team Ico game will come out.

BTW, the major players on both meant movie studios on both DVD and BD.

Sorry but PS3 sales are going up thanks to LBP, R2, BioShock and even Mirror’s Edge. ME has already got a 10 out of 10 for PS3, which shows PS3 is got more power the 260 and only problems that developers have is the Bluray, its a new thing an it will take time to get the full power out of it and it seems like people are to dumb to understand that and oh yes 360 is getting Bluray if Sony lets them an it will only be use for movies an not your games.

Keep in mind all the great idea’s that PS3 had to start with are showing up on 360 because MS can’t come up with their own idea’s (Their own LBP game, Intstalling a game and more to come)

The only freaking reason the ps3 isnt doing well in comparison to the 360 is the price point………….

Sony didn’t expect Microsoft to drop the price this year they got caught with their pants off but if you look at it the other way around sony was getting a lot of attention that is the reason the 360 dropped its price.

Right now you can buy 2 360s in the price of one ps3 this is the problem.I don’t know weather Sony will drop its price this year or will choose to limp through this year its their decision but still Sony is not doing that bad as it is perceived.

every one forgets it did come out a year after the 360 and considering that its doing pretty well when we look at it from the life cycle point of view.

When we talk about winner I think the Wii won this race a year back whle the second position is still up for grabs, too close to call as of yet.

BTW IN my opinion this article suxs balls

I’ll agree that 2008 isn’t the year of the PS3 as many expected. However, you missed a lot of things.

The PS3 for all intensive purposes HAS outsold the 360 worldwide this year. In fact, until October’s NPDs came in, the PS3 had outsold the 360 in the US for 2008, which has traditionally been its weakest territory. It wasn’t until Microsoft took drastic measures and sold the 360 at half the price of the PS3 that 360 sales picked up again.

The PS3 produced 2 gems this year with LBP and MGS4 – the first 90%+ PS3 exclusives. Both Microsoft and Nintendo could only put out 1, Gears 2 and SSBB respectively. Not to mention other diamonds in the rough, like R2, Motorstorm, Valkyria, etc. MGS4 has sold 4 million copies and was a huge success, while R2 and LBP had moderate success for a user base half the size of the 360′s(in the US).

You also mention ME and GTA4 being the only instance of better multiplats when you can look at any review aggregate and see there’s countless others(DMC4, Guitar Hero WT, etc). Notably, Madden 09 was better on the PS3, an accomplishment after 08′s 30 FPS PS3 VS 60 FPS 360 debacle.

And how is Resistance 2 ugly? Its got some of the greatest set pieces I’ve seen since MGS4.
http://onfinite.com/libraries/1420580/0fb.jpg

Also – can I borrow your crystal ball? I know you looked into the future to see that L4D would be a huge success next week, and I need to borrow it.

Wow. You guys are SO passionate. The PS3 doesn’t give a rats booty about you, why would you write more than 100 words (seriously, you guys are typing short stories as you angrily slam the keyboard, a la ‘Angry German Kid’) defending a MACHINE. Nobody insulted your mother, family, or you, but a MACHINE.

Grow up.

“Right now you can buy 2 360s in the price of one ps3 this is the problem.I don?t know weather Sony will drop its price this year or will choose to limp through this year its their decision but still Sony is not doing that bad as it is perceived.”

Playstation 3 – 400 $
PSN
Harddisk
Blu-Ray

Xbox 360 Arcard – 200 $
XBL – 50 $
No Harddisk
DVD

Xbox 360 Premium – 300 $
XBL – 50 $
60 G
DVD

Xbox 360 Premium – 400 $
XBL – 50 $
DVD
120 G

So please no more ” Xbox 360 is cheaper”.

Of course a VW Golf is cheaper than a Ferrari but you don´t get the same.

You could get a Xbox 360 for 200 $ but you will miss XBL , Downloads (one week) and MP. So you have to spend at least 350 $

(sorry for my spelling , i´m german)