Kaz-Ka said:
As far as the PS3 standing up to this claim you are dead wrong. The only reason that its sales are behind the 360 is its price tag, and even now Sony is catching up. And as far as I’m concerned, they are pushing the systems performance (have you not seen MGS4 running? It would take about 10 Xbox 360 disks to run that one game alone. So you believe Sony isn’t pushing its systems potential? Come on MasterP)
I didn’t say anything with regards to sales as the pricetag has been the only thing that’s hurt the PS3 so far.
I was referring to caping out the system to the point where you actually have a noticably lower framerate during certain parts of the game. The SNES had the ability to create full 3-D environments but they never marketed it because the game developers didn’t get to that point until about a year before the N64’s release. They did the same thing with the N64 (Perfect Dark) and Gamecube (3rd PoP, Zelda TP) as some of the later games from both systems were noticibly better than earlier ones.
As far the PS3 goes, no I haven’t seen anything close to the hype that was made about it’s abilities. Yes MGS4 is impressive but this thing was supposed to be more powerful than many PCs conbined, and so far I just haven’t seen it with their games. Hardware wise, yes it’s painfully obvious as some rich mothers in universities up north hook PS3s together to make supercomputers. Software wise though they’re still on par with PC and *most of their games aren’t much better than XBOX360.
IMO, look at the games you like and buy the system accordinly. I like Nintendo’s games (not lately though) so I bought a Wii, those who were really into the Halo series got an XBOX360 and those who liked the FF and Metal Gear series got PS3s. Just buy the system you think you’ll enjoy more, not with how powerful it’s hardware is. If people cared only about raw power the Wii wouldn’t have outsold both of its rivals like it has.