PS de résistance

Hmm, that was actually quite witty of me.

Right, I fancy reviewing Playstation the Third, its late, I can't sleep, so I will.

I've played on all the 'next gen' consoles, and I enjoy them all, they all have a place in the market, they all fill a niche.

I really enjoy playing the Wii, and am fascinated by its innovativity (I wonder if thats a word...) and its so far ahead in the 'immersive gaming' trend that its awesome. Xbox 360 is the finely tuned, intensely polished version of the original Xbox. I hate to say it but the original had so many flaws, not mentioning that one of them was fire. But no, the 360 is much better, they ironed out the flaws, and I think its great that Bill Gates expanded his horizons. The Playstation kind of came into the market as the main competitor to Nintendo, and its obvious that the design is... influenced by Nintendo in a lot of ways, but I think its acceptable what with the mentioned market spread.

I found it hard to think of any reason a console would need a hard drive and all that, but I must admit that it improves the console quite nicely. A couple of years back I'd never of imagined that you could do anything on your games console other than play games, but now you can do so much more. Whether its needed or not is up for speculation, but I think that it certainly adds to the reason to buy one. The PS3 in particular is an interesting console, because it comes in about 6 different models - all different sizes, all capable of different things. Which begs the question "Why not just put it all into one console?", and the answer would be because they want to appeal to as many people as possible. There are value models, delux models, limited editions, and all the rest. I still don't really get why they've done it that way, there surely must be a better system. But whatever, I'll sort it out if ever I have a say ;)

I'm not really sure why, but console gaming is so much more different than PC gaming. Even if the games are the same, or you buy a controller which is shaped the same; its still somehow not as satisfying as console gaming. Essentially the playstation 3 is just a restricted computer, so.. I don't know, its just... there's something attractive about buying the games, something nice about owning a shiny box which is made solely for the purpose of your entertainment.

I don't really know what I'm getting at but it was nice to talk before I catch some z's.
Whatever the fuck that means.