The Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation 3, and Microsoft XBOX360 are the three next gen consoles that currently make up the market share for the gaming industry. The debate is forever on going between fans of the consoles which one stands above the rest. My attempt is to put that debate to rest and offer an objective look at each console and compare them to one another in order to determine which console is the best; is it the Wii, PS3, or XBox360?19

Let’s start with the XBOX360, since it was the first to arrive on the scene in 2005; the graphics were unlike anything seen before, the detail and clarity of the screen was like looking through a thin glass into another world. People lined up at gaming stores to play the console on display. Since the 360 was out almost a year longer than the PS3 and Wii, it had a lot of time to snatch up quite a bit of the market share. People who didn’t want to wait for the other consoles could satisfy themselves with a 360, which put Microsoft at at huge advantage.

XBox 360 also has the edge when it comes to exclusive games. Halo, Gears of War, Two Worlds, Star Ocean, other RPGs are only on the XBox 360 and not on PS3 or Wii. Many of the other two console owners look with envy at the sheer number of games available to owners of an XBox 360. PS3 doesn’t have games that rival the massive number of players on Halo, or the ease of use in an online interface like XBox Live.

PlayStation 3 had a pretty rocky start. Coming out around a year and a half later than XBox 360, it was already far behind in sales, mainly due to time and its $600 price tag. Few people, even those loyal to the PlayStation name, were willing to pay such an exorbitant amount for a gaming console. This hurt Sony for a while, but after a price drop, it became available to more people. PS3 has some games the XBox and Wii doesn’t have, like Uncharted, Metal Gear Solid 4, Resistance 2, and Killzone 2; all of which are great games that are fun to play.

The debate over graphics seems to never abate, but from what research I’ve done on the subject, I believe there is a general understanding that PS3 has the superior graphics over the other two consoles. XBox 360 graphics for the same game usually tend to be a bit cloudier and lower in contrast to its PS3 counterpart. Wii graphics are the worst, mainly because Nintendo doesn’t have graphics in mind.

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