"next gen" consoles: (At this point I am highly unlikely to invest in another console, but see below)

DS:
Most likely console purchase any time in the next year or so. It's priced right, so are the games, and it actually has console style games and alot of games that I like. Plus at c. 20M sold, I expect to see many more good games before it's life is over.

Wii:
looking to offer best console gaming experience as it's limited resources(compartively speaking v. XBOX360 and PS3) should force game designers to be more creative and less reliant on eye candy and other extraneous niceties in favor of actual games and game play. Also has a significant price advantage in both console and game costs. Solid first party title potential, and Nintendo QA.

XBOX360:
more M$ and hijacked PC games at higher prices.

PS3:
overpriced console and game, and looks to be set to not do all that well along with, again, having the same old, same old games plus, and likely, some hijacked PC games if Sony can move enough units.

A large part of the above is that I expect "console style" games for my console, and PC games for my PC. I don't care much for the limitations that console portability imposes on what would have been PC games. Also the XBOX360 and PS3 are seriously missing any sort of current or upcoming compelling titles, while even some of the simplest Wii games seem to be pretty enticing, but not enough for me to buy yet or ever maybe.

Currently as to recent consoles, I own a PS2 and was not impressed by most of the games that came out for it. As alluded to above the XBOX was a gimped PC with hijacked PC games(I own a PC for those), and the gamecube was late to the party(i.e. not much 3rd party support), and still didn't get it wrt propietary formats. I also own: intellivision, Lynx, turbografx, SNES, Jaguar, Nintendo 64(another disappointment), gameboy, gameboy color, gameboy advance, and a psx.

Of the above, the best bangs for the buck were provided by the Intellivision, SNES, psx, and various gameboys. The rest were mostly disappointing either from type of games, quality of games, and/or 3rd party support or lack thereof.

Last edited by cutterjohn; 13/02/07 09:17 AM.