QOTW: PS3, Wii or Xbox 360 - which was best?

by Parm Mann on 6 September 2013, 16:30

Tags: Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Sony (NYSE:SNE), Nintendo (TYO:7974), PC

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The next-gen consoles are almost here, folks. But before the likes of Microsoft and Sony battle it out for our hard-earned dollars with exciting new hardware, let's take a moment to reflect on the soon-to-be-last-generation.

Some may argue that dedicated video games consoles are a thing of the past, and perhaps there's an element of truth to that, but let's not forget the amount of entertainment we've had from the current crop. The Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 arrived in our homes the best part of a decade ago, and with a combined total of over 250 million units sold, it's fair to say that all three proved hugely popular with casual and hardcore gamers alike.

Chances are, you've owned one or two of the above, if not all three, so while we await the next-gen successors, let's look back and pick out our gaming highlights from the current generation. Were there any games or moments in particular that made you stand back and think wow? And, in hindsight, was any one particular console your pick of the bunch? Let us know in the comments below.



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Going by worldwide sales, wii won by a comfortable margin (~100m units compared to ~75m for each of the PS3 and XBOX360).

I have to say I found the wii very novel, fun, refreshing and something the entire family could enjoy despite lacklustre graphics. However, I tended to use my PS3 more often as a single user gaming and media machine. I never owned a XBOX360 (due to lack of built in bluray), so the PS3 won the battle of the end-of-current generation console battle… but in the end, the PC wins the war!

How do things work on the failure rate side of things? I guess this is a win for wii, and a major embarrassment for XBOX360 with the RROD, and PS3 lingering in the middle?
silentphoenix
Going by worldwide sales, wii won by a comfortable margin (~100m units compared to ~75m for each of the PS3 and XBOX360).

I have to say I found the wii very novel, fun, refreshing and something the entire family could enjoy despite lacklustre graphics. However, I tended to use my PS3 more often as a single user gaming and media machine. I never owned a XBOX360 (due to lack of built in bluray), so the PS3 won the battle of the end-of-current generation console battle… but in the end, the PC wins the war!

How do things work on the failure rate side of things? I guess this is a win for wii, and a major embarrassment for XBOX360 with the RROD, and PS3 lingering in the middle?

What he said !
The Wii was novel and fun. Technically it was nothing special, but for the time it deserves a lot of credit for the control scheme which was its main innovation.

The 360 and PS3 were just standard consoles initially. The RROD did the 360 no favours. Hardware wise they were roughly equal, give or take (number of cpu cores, gpu capability, powerful SPU array, etc). The HD DVD failure also didn't help. The PS3's price was not fun, but it did bring BluRay into a lot of houses.

I remember a lot of fun at parties with the Wii. I think it got the concept of a party console right. And it won on sales too, and on appealing to a wider audience. The hard core console gamers would certainly disagree that it was the best console though.

So .. for multi-user, casual and parties: The Wii won.
For hardcore gaming, the 360 and PS3 probably draw overall.
For auxiliary uses (media, etc) the Wii was initially good (YouTube, iPlayer, Web Browser) and must be praised. The PS3 always had Blu-Ray. And you don't need a subscription to watch NetFlix these days. I'll give this one to the PS3.
PS3 for me.

Exclusives, free online play and the blu-ray drive made it better than the xbox for me.

The wii didn't even figure for me.