Nick twigged me onto this post from Dark Diamond showing the differences in Japan between the people queuing up for the Wii and the PlayStation 3. Let’s just say I know which line I’d be staying in. Get it from Dark Diamond here. Nick’s post on AeroPause is also here.
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I would rather not be in either line! Don’t really play enough games to make it worth my while camping out all night for the privilege of forking over $1K for a console that I might only use several times in a month. Not sure what the improvement of the PS3 over xbox 360 is to warrant another $400 game costs is. I’m sure people can quote all the meaningful hardware stats (number of GPU’s, floating point instructions per second etc etc) but can real people ever comprehend it? So it will come down to what titles are available for either machine
Does that start to sound familiar?
Well, if you had to be in a line for a short while I’d be in the Wii line. There’s plenty of Wii’s available so the queue wouldn’t have been as bad I’d imagine as compared to the PlayStation 3. I see a few people have gotten the Wiimote to work with Windows and MacOS X, so more reason to get a Wii (eventually).
The average person can’t comprehend much in way of computing except for quick more or less snap judgements (ie, more clock speed = faster - not!) Some German guys clocked the PlayStation 3 GNU/Linux, turns out it’s cheaper to get a 1 gHz PIII instead, the PS3 is only getting about the equivalent of a 800 mHz PIII with the current implementation of GNU/Linux.
I’ll wait for the price to drop a bit and/or games to get up to speed, nothing is making me think about urgently running out and buying any of the current gen consoles.