What's Most Important to You in a Console (Other Than Great Games)?

" @MrKlorox said:

@Diamond said:

" @RiotBananas:  You'd still never beat me in any of those, and there's no way Geo Wars would ever be easier without a gamepad. "

It could be easier with a thumbstick for movement and a mouse for aiming. The keyboard is only good for multiple digital inputs, but the mouse will nearly always aim more accurately than the thumbstick.  I use a controller in my left hand and a mouse in my right for quite a few PC (ports of console) games. Mirror's Edge is best this way. You just gotta make sure your mouse has enough thumb buttons to mimic the right half of the controller. I would play Alien Swarm this way, but the camera can't decide if it wants to support the gamepad or the mouse and ends up jumping all over.

The problem with mouse shooting in top down view games like Geo Wars or Alien Swarm is #1, your point of reference in directions is not static (which means to shoot to the right the point I need to move the mouse to the right of changes) and #2, the speed is much slower than aiming a thumbstick.  Just like a thumbstick for aiming in a FPS, mouse isn't as good for other kinds of movement. 
 
Alien Swarm has some other functions besides just aiming that would probably keep me from using only a gamepad in that game though. "

Price is important to me.

How is the speed slower with a mouse than with a thumbstick? That's more of a user reflex issue.

I chose A, B is a close second.

Bad graphics I can deal with, bad controls I cant. It just breaks the game no matter how pretty it is.

As for the PC v Consoles argument, competitive console play never took off like PC's for a reason. The level of play is just on a whole other scale, I thought people had accepted that by now.

I don't want my game console to be racist.

service and controls.

Other:
 
The consoles ability as a media device in general, such as content streaming or media playback. 
 
Example:  I enjoy the PS3's easy video, pictures, and music streaming along with it being a Blu Ray player.

It's certainly all about the games for me, but beyond that, I think it's a blend between ease of use and online services at this point.  I love the 360 Marketplace because it's easy to use, the fonts are large enough that I don't have trouble reading them (I have a HELL of a time on the PSN), and the design works for me.  I like the XMB because it looks elegant and has a ton of functionality in a very orderly fashion - it's just hard as hell to read.  I love Nintendo's main menu, as well as the easy-to-use shop. 

I don't care what games look and sound like as long as I don't have to sit up to use the controller. I'm looking at you Wii Remote.

Online service. It's what puts 360 over ps3 in my opinion. 

Graphics/Power
 
Running better with more power to put more stuff in = Better gameplay
Also, I like pretty graphics. It attracts me to a game. And you too, don't deny it.

I would have to agree with Seppli. The gamepad has always been my preferred method of playing games. It's just so familiar and more comfortable to me than have to stretch my fingers in eight different directions across a keyboard. I will say though that RTS games I do prefer playing with keyboard and mouse. But like I said, with a gamepad, I can relax on my bed or couch and play a game on my PS3. Also, using WASD for movement sucks. 

I don't really mind the controls too much unless the ergonomics don't work for me or the button placement is stupid. I do like for the console to be powerful. I'm more of a PC person really, the mouse just feels so much more precise for me. I have tried console shooters, but didn't find one I was expecially good at.

" @Seppli: Controllers FTW!   By the way, I actually voted for graphics, because I believe controllers have advanced to the point where the designs are about as good as they're going to get, and that there probably won't be radical changes in the next generation of consoles.  "

• Water simulation
• Cloth simulation
• Structural Integrity simulation
• Material simulation
• Ragdoll simulation
• Traction simulation
• Inertia simulation
• and so forth and so forth....

" A mouse and keyboard. "

Mouse and Keyboard support. If game consoles offered keyboard and mouse support and made it mandatory for every game to support it just like their gamepad I would actually buy systems and want to play games on them. The only thing I hate about consoles, besides the ridiculous over priced games and mind boggling restrictions companies put on them, is needing to use a controller to play games. While there are a few games that are a tad more enjoyable with one anything that involves shooting or aiming is a god dam nightmare to play with a controller.

" Mouse and Keyboard support. If game consoles offered keyboard and mouse support and made it mandatory for every game to support it just like their gamepad I would actually buy systems and want to play games on them. The only thing I hate about consoles, besides the ridiculous over priced games and mind boggling restrictions companies put on them, is needing to use a controller to play games. While there are a few games that are a tad more enjoyable with one anything that involves shooting or aiming is a god dam nightmare to play with a controller. "

Oh - another good point for Processing Power is...
 
MORE FRAMES!

I like good textures, I mean high rez textures. Not every console can provide that, however I like it because it's on the surface of polygons. When they are sharp and detailed, I think it really adds to the overall look rather than it being dull. They make multiplatform games looks sharp, I think in real life, everything looks sharp on the surface. Of course I voted graphics, i'm only talking about technical graphics.

Lower price. I don't to throw too much money at it.  
 
Yeah i'm cheap. :P

For me it's the controls and since Xbox 360 controller is the most comfortable for me,most of the time I play with my Xbox 360.

D 
That it doesn't break 
(fuck you MS twice over)

" I like good textures, I mean high rez textures. Not every console can provide that, however I like it because it's on the surface of polygons. When they are sharp and detailed, I think it really adds to the overall look rather than it being dull. They make multiplatform games looks sharp, I think in real life, everything looks sharp on the surface. Of course I voted graphics, i'm only talking about technical graphics. "

Nothing I love more than playing a game while in an xbox live party with 7 of my friends. If the whole xbox live party didn't exist I would never play games.

I said Graphics and Sound because a great atmosphere with good controls (Like Deadspace) can take a game farther with decent graphics and great controls (Bayonetta)
 
edit: I misread this...FUCK!

not motion. fuck u nentendo! u started this fucked up shit!!!!

Reliability. I don't want my shit breaking all the time.

I would have said graphical power about a generation ago, but because of online services becoming so large and vast I choose that. I want to play video games online so whatever has the best online service with the majority of my friends on it, after the best games, I will pick that console.

" @Seppli: fetish? What are you talking about? Lol. High rez textures are something that's in most pc games all the time, you do play a game moving, unless i'm missing something. I'm not trying to insult the ps3, however at times I noticed for multiplatform games, the textures are sort of blurry, even in exclusives which has a dependence on art design with lower resolution textures, which really takes away from the experience for me. "