I'd argue that Sony has the most innovative games coming out this fall. Nintendo has the old ips with tacked on motion controls which is expected. MS have mostly FPS. Sony has new iPs covering almost all genres. The downloadable games like everyday shooter and echochrome. Eye of Judgement too is something different. The only problem I see with Sony is that they don't advertise what they have. They need to say why the PS3 is this good. For someone who doesn't read news and research games everyday like us, will have very few reasons to get a PS3.

"dont give a rats arse how much the Wii out sells it cos the Wii doesn't even have many real games. Just mini and party games. Gimmicy crap. Nintendo have turned their back on all us gamers."

The Prediction: This year Wii will have more AAA exclusives than PS3 (using gamerankings.com as a source).

The question: If I stand correct at the end of the year, will you finally stop with the bashing of the Wii? Criticism is always good, just make sure there's a concrete basis for it. At the moment, there's two AAA games for Wii and one for PS3.

I dont think I even mention the Wii more than once or twice a month, but perhaps you're talking about people bashing it in general.

Dude I stand by what I said. I've supported Nintendo since Game&Watch and now all they seem to care about capturing the nongamer with their dull motion games. Sorry thats how I feel.

I also dont care about so called AAA games or Gamerankings. To everyone around here a AAA game just means it got solid 9's from most sites and yeah that usually means a great game. It could also mean its just a good game thats terrible overatted like certain titles that I'm not even going to mention to avoid flaming. To me a good game is one I ENJOY. One of my favourite series is Tenchu and they never score better than 6 or 7. 8 at the most. You think I care? So how do I gauge how much I like a console? Since March I've bought 7 games for PS3. Since November I've bought 1 for Wii. Its hard to sell which I prefer.

I was talking about Wii bashing in general. I just get the feeling that people don't realise how small company Nintendo is compared to Sony and MS. They couldn't afford to take the risk of selling a superpowered console at loss for the narrow hardcore gamer community, considering how badly GC did with similar strategy. They definately don't have the money to buy several well-known gaming studios like their competitors do.

These days games simply cost so much to make, that Nintendo can't afford trying to make a batch of new high-end ips because. If couple of them bombed, it would be a tough situation. Instead, they did the only thing they thought could help them survive; innovated and started producing more arcadeish games, just like Super Mario Bros or Duck Hunt on the NES. They do show love for experienced gamers and don't rush half-ready products of established franchises (they could do that as the franchises sell also because of their name). Instead, they use the money they gain from the casual games for perfecting the in-depth games like MP3, SSBB and SMG. That's why I like Nintendo. It's also the reason why I don't own the Wii yet.

I'll remember that next time I see you upset with an analysts/journalists opinion. And dont say it wont happen.

happens when you open your trap?
There'll be at least two of us waiting for you now, Mr. GT.

Dude, what temper?

I simply pointed out what I see as a slight hypocrisy in a calm tone. Maybe the guy below me wasn't so diplomatic but you've proved my point. You've been known to get upset at peoples opinions yourself so you see what I was getting at. And while we might not be analyst does the fact we're not getting paid for our opinion make it less valid? No wait, I'll reverse that, does the fact he's getting paid make his opinion more important?

Anyway its ok, I'm not scouring the boards waiting for you to trip up or anything, so I'm not on your case.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend as I will, (last public holiday for the year.) :)

they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.

Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted

Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments

Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.

It should be free highway for him now.. but Sony are too stupid to see this, especially that moron Hulst

He would've done the same thing and fire Jim Ryan and Shuhei would be the villain. Why?
Because Elite creates the narrative and distraction for gamers, users and citizens.

Yep. Yoshida was responsible for bringing one of the best games of this generation to playstation (Stellar Blade). He is an actual gamer and is in touch with what gamers want (creative, fun games, not GaaS and agenda pushing). He also seems like a genuinely nice guy if you watch some interviews. Of course they got rid of him.

Microflop. After Windows XP and Xbox 360, it all went floppy.