The Negativity Thread

[Tafdolphin]

360: Reliability, Live fees, no wireless as standard, even on the Elite, ridiculously overpriced wireless adaptor.

PS3: Lack of exclusives, shoddy 360 ports, price, controller from the last generation and, this is the kicker for me, a confusing number of SKUs. I've been tempted to buy one of these every now and again but have been put off each and every time as I don't know which SKU is the best for me.

Wii: Complete lack of 3rd party games, "kiddy" image, more of an interactive boardgame generator than a games console, no DVD or HDD.

[andythevillan]

360: It's bust half the time! (slight exaggeration)
PS3: No beef with it playing games but why haven't they fixed the green screen RGB output for BD/DVD on SD tellys?
Wii: The remote, it just isn't suitable to play certain type of games on it. Oh and lack of a hard drive to save VC games.

[emilythestrange]

I can't post about all three systems as I only have two, but I'm happy to say something negative about the Wii anyway

360: I don't know if it's just me and my friends, but we try and play lots of multiplayer games together as we have a big projector in our house. Getting four players to 'sign in' then to play a game feels like a real faff, I thought it could've been made simpler. RRoD also deserves a mention. I also hate the shape of the controller and the fact that the 'X' button is in a different place to PS controllers, but that's purely a personal preference.

PS3: I absolutely despair at how long it takes me to do things on this console. MGS4 install times after each chapter. PS3 updates that take forever. Game updates that take forever while I get signed out of PSN for no reason and have to start all over again. Loading (seems to) take ages. I buy OPM, I want to play demos, but you have to install each one individually and that takes ages too.
This is one console you simply cannot just turn on and PLAY.

Wii: This is more to do with the 'image' of the console. I'm just sick of it. Wii Fit, oh it's so great, you can pay to exercise instead of just going outside in the fresh air, resting your eyes from a screen and jogging...

[Captain Kinopio]

I can't post about all three systems as I only have two, but I'm happy to say something negative about the Wii anyway

360: I don't know if it's just me and my friends, but we try and play lots of multiplayer games together as we have a big projector in our house. Getting four players to 'sign in' then to play a game feels like a real faff, I thought it could've been made simpler. RRoD also deserves a mention. I also hate the shape of the controller and the fact that the 'X' button is in a different place to PS controllers, but that's purely a personal preference.

Thankyou for reminding me of something.

360: There are literally about 2 good split screen multiplayer games.

[Garth]

Thankyou for reminding me of something.

360: There are literally about 2 good split screen multiplayer games.

Check out this site Herb, it lists all the different types of multiplayer games for 360:
http://www.xboxmp.com/

They currently display 176 games available and on the way with offline coop and 234 games with offline VS modes. Definitely more than 2 good ones out of that lot, many that perhaps you aren't aware of.

[Moggy]

360: I hate that the Americans have so much content on their video marketplace. Wankers.

PS3: PSN is just crap. Needs a hell of a lot more content.

Wii: Since Mario Galaxy there has been nothing I want to play. I don’t think I have even switched it on in the last 2 months.