Comments on: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly http://www.wuup.co.uk/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly We're Geeks - This is Where We Write Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Alan Hamlyn http://www.wuup.co.uk/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly#comment-5054 Alan Hamlyn Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:01:03 +0000 http://www.wuup.co.uk/?p=1214#comment-5054 I never grew up with games consoles, my first console was a gamecube when i was about 15/16. Friends always had them so I've been around the nes, n64, xbox etc - but now, I have a xbox 360, I play it occasionally, but use it more as a media centre. Wii novelity would tire easily for me, and the PS3 is too expensive. Xbox 360 is cheap, not perfect, but doe's the job. Comes with a lovely cup holder too, have to press a button though for it to pop out... I never grew up with games consoles, my first console was a gamecube when i was about 15/16. Friends always had them so I’ve been around the nes, n64, xbox etc – but now, I have a xbox 360, I play it occasionally, but use it more as a media centre. Wii novelity would tire easily for me, and the PS3 is too expensive. Xbox 360 is cheap, not perfect, but doe’s the job. Comes with a lovely cup holder too, have to press a button though for it to pop out…

]]> By: Elderan http://www.wuup.co.uk/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly#comment-5052 Elderan Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:56:59 +0000 http://www.wuup.co.uk/?p=1214#comment-5052 you shouldn't really upgrade the ps3 to 500gb. Especially if it is not a 60gb version. It will not be happy. One of the problems the wii has its line of truly fantastic games is very very limited. Viewing it as family console is letting it down on some fronts. It is the same problem with the DS, some truly fantastic games, shrouded with so much shovelware it so hard to find the good stuff. The 360 failings are a bit numerous, paying for the service is a bit pesky, but compared to the psn it kicks it out of the water and into different hemisphere. The non-upgradeable hdd is a pain, my controller's right bumper spring has gone. the new update take that bit longer to boot up. The ps3 controller is poorly designed, the knee-jerk reaction to rumble was quite bad. Along with the numerous faults the firmware has. A user name to have a user name? in the field of mgs 4, a username to have a psn id to have a konami id to have a game id. The best game on the ps3 to use the six-axis has to be heavenly sword. quite an interesting game, shame it didn't last very long. Another fault sony made was all the different versions of the ps3, the original 60 and 20 gbs in europe. now replaced by 40gbs and 80gbs. The 60gb is vastly different then the rest of them, the actual firmware had to be different, since the 60gb has the ps2 emulator engine, sadly not the actual ps2 chip like the american ps3's get for some reason ¬,¬. Which makes it pesky to update and patch. Each person will view the consoles differently, I play on all of them regularly, enfact i have my ps3 playing batman begins (blu-ray is awesome). softy have dropped the hd-dvd race, it is good they haven't gone blu-ray aswell. they have gone down the route of downloadable movies. you shouldn’t really upgrade the ps3 to 500gb. Especially if it is not a 60gb version. It will not be happy.

One of the problems the wii has its line of truly fantastic games is very very limited. Viewing it as family console is letting it down on some fronts. It is the same problem with the DS, some truly fantastic games, shrouded with so much shovelware it so hard to find the good stuff.

The 360 failings are a bit numerous, paying for the service is a bit pesky, but compared to the psn it kicks it out of the water and into different hemisphere. The non-upgradeable hdd is a pain, my controller’s right bumper spring has gone. the new update take that bit longer to boot up.

The ps3 controller is poorly designed, the knee-jerk reaction to rumble was quite bad. Along with the numerous faults the firmware has. A user name to have a user name? in the field of mgs 4, a username to have a psn id to have a konami id to have a game id.

The best game on the ps3 to use the six-axis has to be heavenly sword. quite an interesting game, shame it didn’t last very long.

Another fault sony made was all the different versions of the ps3, the original 60 and 20 gbs in europe. now replaced by 40gbs and 80gbs. The 60gb is vastly different then the rest of them, the actual firmware had to be different, since the 60gb has the ps2 emulator engine, sadly not the actual ps2 chip like the american ps3′s get for some reason ¬,¬. Which makes it pesky to update and patch.

Each person will view the consoles differently, I play on all of them regularly, enfact i have my ps3 playing batman begins (blu-ray is awesome). softy have dropped the hd-dvd race, it is good they haven’t gone blu-ray aswell. they have gone down the route of downloadable movies.

]]> By: Bill Nunney http://www.wuup.co.uk/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly#comment-5051 Bill Nunney Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:32:26 +0000 http://www.wuup.co.uk/?p=1214#comment-5051 The 360's hdd is a complete ripoff compared to the PS3. Upgrading the PS3 hdd to 500gb costs the same as buying the 120gb xbox 360 hdd. MS screwed up on that front. The 360′s hdd is a complete ripoff compared to the PS3.

Upgrading the PS3 hdd to 500gb costs the same as buying the 120gb xbox 360 hdd. MS screwed up on that front.

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