Wolfgang, your post still represents the narrow mindedness of a fanboy. I stand by that. No one could possibly state the arguments that you make about one gaming company and ignore the same faults in their own company of choice if they weren’t a fanboy.

Second, it is extremely tactless to make a post of this nature and try to get this back and forth going immediately after I stated that I have an absurdly slow internet connection. In fact, you invited me to read your post in the comments of my post explaining my lousy internet connection.

The reason I have to make these responses into their own posts is because the internet here is - through some sort of strange online voodoo - preventing me from accessing comment feeds on Blogger.

I’m going to sum this up as succinctly as I can:

The gaming experience is subjective.

Regardless of the hardware capabilities of a system, it is the games that define a system, and it is the individual users who find enjoyment in the games. The reason has nothing to do with the graphics, or the processing speed. Powerful system specs does not automatically result in an enjoyable gaming experience. It has to do with something that is enjoyable. Enjoyment found in games transcends storylines and graphics. It is all about the experience and the gameplay. No one can enjoy a game simply because it looks good.

You argue that the Nintendo Wii will fail or die off. The damn thing is printing money. They still have supply shortages. One in every two households in Japan have a Nintendo DS in them, while one in five households in North America have one. You may throw all the fanboyish arguments you want at the Nintendo Wii, but your subjective opinion about the experience that the Nintendo Wii offers gamers is irrelevant because it appeals to a huge market who is going to keep buying it until Nintendo releases the next big thing.

The Nintendo Wii is successful. It will continue to be successful. And regardless of whether you think it will continue to be successful is irrelevant to its continued success.

You don’t think it can sustain itself in its little corner of the market? Its little corner is earning it huge piles of money. And the best part is, Sony and Microsoft don’t appeal to that little corner. So they will continue to make huge piles of money regardless of whether gamers like you are interested in the slightest by their product. Because that is their business model, and it is succeeding.

Don’t get me wrong Wolfgang. I respect you a great deal. You are a competent individual.

But comments like this: [quote]From my experience, they contain little to no valid story line (correct me if I’m wrong)[/quote]

are damaging to your image. I mean…what the hell is a valid story line? A valid storyline? How is the storyline to Halo 3 more valid than Metroid Prime 3? And which of those is more [i]valid[/i] then, say, Myst V: End of Ages? But perhaps they are all still less valid than Half-Life 2?

Storylines do not possess validity. They possess simple properties of entertainment. Either you like the story in Halo 3, or you don’t. You are either captivated by the Half-Life 2 universe, or you aren’t. You either enjoy exploring the Ages of Myst, or you do not. There is no valid.

You are trying to argue subjective statements regarding these games into facts. It cannot be done. Quit wasting your time and everyone elses, and stop the backwards slide into becoming some mindless forum occupant who sits there and says that the XBox 360 version of Resident Evil 5 is going to be more enjoyable than the PS3 version because you can make out the sweat on Chris Redfield’s forehead?

For Christs sake!

I only have an hour’s break a day between my 8:30 start time at work and my 9:00 pm conclusion of work, and I’ve spend half of it on this. I’m not going to make any more comments on this. Even this issue is subjective. Your arguments stem from your love of the experience that the XBox 360 provides. I am making my comments because I love all games, and if I had an infinite pot of money and an infinite amount of time, I would play them all again and again. And if Andreas were here, he’d be jumping right up to plate to defend the experience offered by the PS3.

We are all different. We all have different tastes. We will all continue to buy what makes us happy.

And so, following the sage advice of Binks, I’m going to stop participating in this discussion. Because, the fact of the matter is, we are both arguing opinions. Our opinions can not be applied to some grand scale of truth and falsehood. We are getting nowhere and we’re getting there fast, and the more I discuss the issue, the more I am frustrated by the barriers blogging/forum posting/talking through a computer creates. As I get frustrated, I get more insulting. And I am trying to curb that since I usually offend a lot of people when I get like this.

So, I’m clocking out. I’m going to use the rest of my half hour playing Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, or maybe get a bit further in Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Or, perhaps I’ll shoot for 100% completion in Yoshi’s Island for the Game Boy Advance. I don’t know. I think I’ll do whatever I find to be the most fun, and be done with it.

Cheers.