But now here I am with a 360 simply because the price was low enough to grab one. I’m going to get a PS3 eventually (I don’t want to miss out on Gran Turismo 5) But I doubt it will be one of the newer models, I’ll go on the trek to find a large hard drive, backwards compatible model (Can anyone say first generation 160GB PS3?)

The fact is, people didn’t like backwards compatibility JUST because you could play your old games on your new system, they liked it because it was convenient. Rather than having two consoles taking up precious house space, you could now sell your old console and play ALL your games on the newer single console. It was essentially just a matter of convenience. Sony messed up big time by eliminating this convenience, because I don’t have enough money to go out and spend on not one, but two consoles (My PS2 died last year after 6 good years of service). So this means that if I want to play PS3 games I need to get the PS3, and if I want to play my PS2 games, I need to buy another PS2. Not to mention that somehow I still have to find enough to be able to buy any XBOX games I want.

Hell the last game I bought was Mass Effect, I haven’t been able to afford to buy anything since.

And the Wii, I can’t believe people bought that system in the first place, I had a feeling it was going to be nothing more than a novelty, and turns out I may have been right. I mean, where is the logic in the system? “Let’s make a more arcade style motion controlled system for the casual gamer, and completely alienate our core support.” Anyone who was anyone knew that the lightgun was awesome, but that they wouldn’t have wanted to use that as the sole controller for the system. Why? Because motion sensing technology isn’t accurate enough to give you the subtle control you need over the game. The first time I played Twilight Princess on the Wii, I found the controls to be wonky, and inaccurate. I found myself wanting the game cube controller, or hell even the 64 controller, as long as Link would do what the hell I wanted him to do, not an approximation of what the motion sensor THOUGHT I wanted him to do.

In the end, I think ALL of the console manufacturers are screwing themselves over, rather than giving they user base what they want, the manufacturers are doing everything they can to beat the competition. I think console makers have lost touch of what they set out to do, create a console that people would want to play, and would actually enjoy using; not creating a console that has better specs than the other guy, yet is nothing but a fancy piece of plastic you show to your friends because there isn’t any actual game support (or because you couldn’t afford the 60 bucks for the fancy game to make your shiny console look prettier)

…aaaaaaaaand “Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex” for PS2… ’nuff said….

therefore, the PS4 joke is hilarious.

I can see where you’re coming from, but umm… you do realize Nintendo is basically winning the current-gen sales competition, right?