So I’ve been playing with both the Playstation 3 and the Wii lately. I’ll give you a full rundown of what I think some other time, but here’s a few of my thoughts on the two consoles.

Holy cow that’s a Giant Rubber Thing that comes with the included Wii controller. Nintendo apparently packages a Giant Rubber Thing (henceforth called the Nintendo GRT) with Wiis. I’ll have to post a photo later. I was unaware that I’d be getting a GRT with the system. I presume it’s to prevent your grip from slipping on the controller as you shake, waggle, and roll your way through games. And if it does slip, better to get clocked in the head by a Giant Rubber Thing than a cute, white, heavy, plastic brick, right? Also, I saw this article wherein some dude’s 3-year-old destroyed the TV with a Wii remote. Maybe the GRT is to prevent this sort of thing as well.

I think the Playstation 3 controllers are made from paper mache. These are some seriously lightweight controllers. I’m kind of afraid to squeeze them too hard. Compared to the XBox 360 controllers and Wii controllers, these are featherweights. I just know that one of them is going to get stepped on at some point and shatter into a hojillion little shards of wireless trajedy.

Grown-ups like Wii Sports. I mean real grown-ups, like older than 40. Seriously, my in-laws took to it like nothing. I doubt they’d do that with any of the PS3 games, where you’re required to memorize the functions of all 20,000 buttons (which change according to the context of the game). In Wii Sports, it’s very intuitive. How intuitive? So intuitive. Playing baseball? Swing the bat. That’s it. Boxing? Punch. Tennis? Swing the racquet. You get the idea. What I won’t tell my in-laws is that you really only need to flick your wrist a bit to get the message across to the Wii. You don’t need to take some giant Barry Bonds steroid super-swing to hit them balls. No sense throwing a shoulder out.

Resistance: Fall of Man gives me motion sickness. This really isn’t Sony’s fault. I’m just really sensitive to some kinds of motion (it nearly ruined Cloverfield for me). Or percieved motion.

Not all Playstation 3 games support full 1080p resolution. Again, while this isn’t exactly Sony’s fault, it’s still stupid. Message to developers: 1080p. Seriously, Sony crammed like a billion horks of processing power into these things. Use it.

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