I bought the PS3 primarily as a Blu-Ray player for my home theater. That's one big difference.
And why is the Wii still not on the list to vote for? Even if no one votes for it, it's a valid choice.
That's true, the blu-ray playing capability is one of the reasons why I switched from xbox to PS3.
I owned quite a number of game consoles/machines in my life but I always love my first game machine. the Atari 800XL. I'm not sure whether gamers nowadays are aware of the 8-bits goodness of Frogger, Spy Hunter or Tapper.
Yes, I'm that old.
Then I guess I'm older. My first game system was a Magnavox Odyssey 2 - predates the Atari 2600 by a couple of years.
haha I still rock golden eye from time to time! Well rumor has it that the Xbox will soon be able to play blu-ray 
Hmm.. that would be an interesting move by Sony.... Microsoft would definitely have to be paying big bucks to Sony to allow them to use their system. I don't know if I would agree with Sony for doing that, its ones of the main advantages of owning a PS3 compared to the Xbox. But with rumors it hard to tell what has credibility and what is utter bs.
The reason why an Xbox 360 can't play Blu-ray is that the license from Sony would have made the game machine expensive enough to not be remotely competitively priced. It has the capability in the hardware, but not in the software, to the best of my knowledge. Do you remember their attempted workaround for the original Xbox and DVD playback - a separate add-on drive just for playing movies that was so expensive they became retail dust collectors?
At the time the game machines were being developed, I think Microsoft was backing HD-DVD for the Xbox 360 in order to try competing with Sony and the PS3's Blu-ray capabilities. Unfortunately for them, HD-DVD didn't last very long in the format war, but it was too late in the game to go making big changes.
Someone correct me on this if I'm wrong, please.
And yes, Moon.exe, free online gaming for everyone! Xbox Live is a ripoff. I have no intention of continuing to pay for my games and my machine long after my initial purchase is made. It's more like you're renting them long-term!
As far as the motion technology is concerned, the Wii became a competitor because of it and Nintendo got a lot of non-gamers to buy their machine. The other two started whipping up "me too" technologies - Kinect really looks awesome in that arena. However, aside from family/party, dance and exercise games, I have yet to see an effective use of the tech that would appeal to the traditional gamer. I mean the idea of swinging a lightsaber in a Star Wars game sounds awesome - until the reality of the physical exertion sets in and you realize there's a reason why Jedi are pretty fit to start with! A game that you used to polish off in a few days now can take weeks because it exhausts the hell out of you. It's one thing if you're looking to get fit, but a lot of gamers use game machines as sedentary recreation; you're tired, work sucks, you want to just drink a beer and kill something.
Has anyone seen a good application of a traditional videogame that uses motion capture tech?
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