My main problem with the 360 is that it’s been out for well over a year now without any exclusives that make me want to buy it. Sure they may be coming but so are the PS3 exclusives like Little Big Planet, MGS etc, so the 360 has seemingly wasted that year head start that they had. Really if Sony hadn’t helped them out with the price tag on the PS3 and the horrible PR gaffes the 360 would be looking pretty vulnerable right now.

I still say that we won’t see the outcome properly until after Xmas 2007. But I think it would be foolish to write off the PS3 at this stage, as a core product it has an awful lot going for it still once you get past all the crap that’s dogged it in the last year. As time goes on it’s the core product that’s going to become more relevant and the other stuff less so. I’ll be watching what happens and making my decision around then I think. Unless LBP comes out and blows me away earlier :)

PGR is a very poor racing game in my opinion – it can’t even compete with Gran Turismo 2 in terms of playability.

You’re right there isn’t much in the way of 360 exclusives but there are some interesting ones in the pipeline – Shadowrun, Halo 3, Fable 2.

Don’t get me wrong – if you’d asked me 2 years ago what my next console would be it would have been firmly PS3 with no intention to buy a 360.

It’s not Microsoft or Xbox fanboyism that have made me buy a 360 – rather Microsoft delivering a solid product at a good price whilst Sony continually turn me off at every possible avenue.

[)amien

Sorry, but your post just screams X-Box fanboy.

So far (ignoring the backwards compatibility issue) I’ve been very impressed with the PS3. I will equally admit that the 360 is also a very capable machine, however, there are no exclusive titles on it that interest me greatly.

For me, the PS3 is a perfect second console (the Wii still take 1st place in my book).

BTW, so far as I remember, the 360 launch titles were laughably awful – unless you like racing games (and PGR is really no better than Metropolis Street Racer on the Dreamcast!)

I actually think Home is kinda interesting, and am glad they didn’t just try to copy Live. I can’t imagine spending a huge amount of time on it though – but the same would go for XBox Live for me (and PC online gaming which has been around far longer), I’m far less interested in online play than industry pundits say I should be, and I know I’m not the only one – I know a few 360 owners who have never bothered to pay the fee for Live. I think the busier your life is, the less you care about persistent online worlds and competing globally against others.

To be honest in the last year and a bit nothing has called out strongly enough to make me want to spend my time and money on a 360 (given the other gaming options I already have) so I’ll just wait and see.