Lament and Purchase Justification for owning my PS3.
By ravensword 11 Comments
for the past 3 years or whatever that I have owned a PS3 I have constantly gone through a cycle of lament about wether or not I should have really boughten it. Maybe its that I hate thinking that 360 is some standard bullshit that you always need to demo on it, always need to show it in videos and always need to show that version being streamed if oyu do that kinda stuff because its some kind of freakin standard today as opposed to the other console. Again, I paid 600 @#$% ass dollars for a console and naturaly im jaded and thinkin everyone is either bias or against it when I constantly see it the other console either being the version that is demoed on sites or its the one that seems to not be focused or stuff like that. Maybe its that I hate how much SONY has fallen since PS2 in the view of the industry.
Also, keep in mind that from 2007-mid 2009 I got hammered with anti PS3 bullshit that probaly left a dent on how I view the syestem and probaly had me develop buyers remorse. How would you feel if you paid 600 dollars and you had a well known dev (Gabe Newell) call it a waste of time and basicaly said I was stupid for buying it, seeing all the PS3 doomsday articles, and shit like that for like 3 years straight and some of that is still happening today. Naturaly you would probaly question your purchase. Were so used to seeing PS3 being the industry whipping boy that I think we (and I myself) have accepted it.
Im in this spiral of trying to justify my expensive purchase, having buyers remorse because the majority dosent seem to like it as much as the other, cheaper console, and the majority of multiplatform games underperform on it. I asked this question on the podcast talk radar on their phonecalls segment and they said that "back in teh day, 360 was the lead console, meaning thats the console they dev first on, but until very recently that no longer is the case" and "the main thing is Live and all that, adn are you really going to notice those differences when the game is going at X speed?" basicaly saying that it isnt that big of a deal anymore and things have chnged, but after seeing that Mafia 2 crap on PS3, I think what they said was kinda a lie, or maybe not a lie because thats what they thought, but certainly a inaccuracey or they were wrong. and they said its not a big deal, but chances are they probaly would play the game on 360 not out of bias, but due to Live and Points and all that, so really their not that exposed to it enough to develop a sense of noticing a trend of faults in PS3 versions of games.
things have gotten better for PS3 I guess, but nothing really has changed that much. PS3 had the worse multipaltforms back in 2007, they had the worse online in 2007, and its not mainstream enough to warrent sites or devs using it as showcasing demos or videos using its version. And all of this is true today even in the year 2010. Also, 360 is still outselling PS3 adn has more sold, and if the 360 sales surge keeps up, I dont think that gap will EVER close and even if it does, I think 360 will still be considered a bigger success then PS3 this gen.