[Forenci]

I respectfully disagree with you on that Bluff and Nish.

I think as a gaming console, the 360 is the better system. As a home entertainment device, I'd say the PS3 is better. That said, I don't know many who buy a PS3 for the Blu-Ray player, music capabilities, and various other tools it has. Most buy it for the gaming, and Sony has slacked off dramatically on good game production. The launch titles were all pretty bad, except for one, and even now it's really not impressive, nor will it be anytime soon.

What you said about PS3 games becoming easier to produce as time goes on is true in a sense, but it will always be far more difficult than making a 360 game. There are several reasons for this - one being that the unified shaders that the Xbox 360 utilizes allows for extremely easy development in the sense they do not have to use dozens of other shader pipelines for textures and such. Thus, PS3 game production will always be longer, and much more costly.

Also the Cell in the PS3 is an extremely stripped down version of it's original form, and would be lucky to be 50% of what the original version is. It's also very difficult to work with because IBM meant for it to be used primarily in servers, and not so much a gaming console. That said, it's still very powerful, but again - it keeps the cost of the PS3 up, and it's not worth it.

I agree with you about the formats, it doesn't matter to me who wins the 'format war', as long as it's sometime in the near future. I agree though that Blu-Ray or HD-DVD will be needed in the future for more space, and the Blu-Ray holds a lot more than 25 GB, lol. Dual Layer at least. Of course in five years, or however long it may be, I'm sure the 360 will have some sort of upgrade to give it blu-ray or HD-DVD, and by then it'll be much cheaper. Right now, it's not needed so much. Soon though.

Then, from a purely finacial stand point, Sony has literally made awful decisions. I believe they're losing over 200 dollars on every console sold (or somewhere in that ball park), where as Microsoft loses about half that - which is why Microsoft is finally starting to make money back on the 360, and Sony has many, many, years to go before it will be profitable, and at the rate it's selling, might be even longer.

Sony got greedy, they thought people would buy their console at $600 dollars, because it had their label on it and they thought three or four exclusive titles would sell it alone. They were wrong on this point, as it's sales are still terrible in comparison to the 360 and Wii.

Until the PS3 drops to around the price of an Xbox 360 Elite, I can't see it selling anytime soon, and when it does drop, they'll still be losing a boat load of money.

Now, that all having been said, I really hope Sony turns it around and starts paying attention to the gamers and titles they put out. I like Sony a lot, I love a lot of their franchise games like Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid, but I wouldn't buy one just to play those games. The only reason I actually can comment on how the PS3 preforms is because my roommate owns one, and I have a chance to play it quite a bit - and right now, the 360 has better graphics, but my guess is, it won't last too long.

Well, that was rather drawn out - and while I may feel passionately about this, I still respect both of your opinions on the PS3, and I really hope Sony turns it around in the future. Until then, I'll stick to the 360 - and a Wii, one of these days when I get some money to spend to buy one of course.