compare it to VSI (vertical speed indicator) of an airplane. the rate of descent (so not to insult you with word “drop”) may have decreased by 50% from 10M/s to 5M/s but this still means the plane is going down, albeit slower. and if that is of comfort to you, be my guest

same here , the rate xbox gaining ground on PS3 may have decreased but it is still gaining ground (since is sold more units). i understand you might not like it but you should have realised by now (being of age it is possible to operate a PC) that in this life stuff that you don’t like WILL happen to you no matter what.

that said, i personnaly don’t give a sh…t about console war. it is just a game which somehow got way overrated. not going to own either, my XBMC box is working way better.

I’ve actually seen gran tursismo HD playing on a ps3 back in may at E3, and honestly, the graphics were good, but PGR3 on the 360 looks better.

I liked the PS1 and PS2 a lot but became disappointed in Sony when it came to their position on console online gaming and what they’ve done to the homebrew crowd on the PSP. Clearly, Microsoft has taken the edge on both these fronts (the latter with the new XLA Game Studio express). Why Sony didn’t coordinate some online effort with the PS2 is a mystery to me. Microsoft knew right away with the Xbox that broadband console gaming was the future and it is looking more and more prophetic as time goes on.

When Sony finally started getting their act together on the online console front, it seems like too little too late and because of market pressure rather than because they wanted to please their customers. From what they’ve showed so far, they have something similar to the Xbox Live Marketplace in the hopper. I hope they don’t just copy that and instead do something new and different with it, however they did seem to copy the Wii’s motion sensitive controller … who knows.

It’s almost like Sony got to be #1 and did what every other #1 company tends to do: got lazy. Microsoft has done that before but because they aren’t #1 in gaming they have had to scrap and claw as the hungry underdog. They have made mistakes though too with not releasing enough Live Arcade titles. They’ve been trying to rectify that criticism over the summer with the Xbox Live Wednesdays promotion. More titles every week, or almost every week, will grow their legion of fans and every week they release a new title before the PS3 arrives is yet one more reason to buy a 360 instead of a PS3. Sadly, a shortage of consoles is going to make the Xbox 360 a victor this holiday season, which means Sony won’t really compete with Microsoft until Xmas 2007. By then we should see how this thing really shakes out.

Meanwhile, Nintendo keeps making fun games. A lot of them are kiddy games, but man, I probably never will get too much of Mario.

I’m actually looking more forward to the Wii than the PS3 at the moment but that all could change when the consoles are plugged in and compared and when I spin a few of those sweet looking Blu-Ray movies. Hate to admit this but after seeing recently a movie I’m looking more forward to the Blu-Ray movie capabilities than the games.

Any specific games are you looking forward to on the PS3, darkmoon?

Whoever does their data for what people want in features, is pretty poor imho. PSPFanboy recently wrote about how Warner Brothers is releasing UMDs now at a $9.99 price point and increased their sales by like 100x or 1000x or something. Which should be a huge “ah ha” to Sony. Hopefully.

I REALLY want them to succeed. They haven’t disappointed with PS1, PS2, or PSP (the good lineup in games are finally coming out). I just hope that they don’t kill themselves before they get started with the PS3. Remember the PSX? This is the same deal, except PSX bombed out in Japan. I’m worried that the same will happen with PS3 launch.