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Why is every games console so rediculously flawed?

At this point I expect every dedicated PS3/X-box/Wii owner to jump to their beloved's defence and take as many bullets as they can in order for their machine to flee to safety. Well they shouldn't. Every console is flawed and the sooner people admit this, the sooner we can all live in console harmony.

Yeah right.

I worked in a games shop for almost a year, and my god, I have never known people so patriotic about an inanimate object. You should have seen the arguments people got into over the simplist things. Which console had the best graphics. Which one had the best catalogue of games. Which one had the best controllers! People would actually get properly rialled up over these things. So I have decided to settle it once and for all.

They're all rubbish.

Except the Playstation 3 which rules.

The X-box destroys its own games. And itself once it gets really bored. Seriously people. I don't care how many games it has compared to the Playstation, and it's a bit of a nil argument anyway, seeing as it was released over a year before... 'I'm in the lead! I'm in the lead!' 'Jim... You started five hours before me. Of course you're in the lead...' it still destroys things! And it's terrible that people actually expect them to breakdown. I'm sorry, but if someone was selling me a television with a note attached saying 'will give-up on you in two years time', I think I'd be throwing them straight out of the window followed by the television and hoping that my aim is as good as I think it is...

Now the Wii. Well the Wii really is just rediculous. I know it's the biggest selling major console, but it really is just silly. Whatever happened to settling down to play a nice relaxing computer game? With normal controls? What's with all this flailing around stuff? I don't like it. It hurts my arms. And it's load times are rediculous considering the games. And the graphics really are just awful. Why do Nintendo do this evertime? 'What's that? It's a next-gen race? Well let's not make a next-gen console like everyone else. Let's make a little wand thing and force fat children to lose weight!' I'm not a fat kid. If anything I need to put on weight. Hence: Nintendo are trying to make me anorexic and I should sue them.

Ok, ok. I'll be fair. The Playstation 3 is also flawed. Yes it has 'regular' updates. But these updates are just allowing it to do things that the X-box already could. And it is very expensive. Although I worked out how much you'd have to pay for the X-box if you wanted it to do everything the PS3 does and it actually works out more expensive. And yes, there aren't as many games. But then again, we have Metal Gear Solid. And what does the X-box have? Bioshock? Oh wait. So do we...

At the end of the day, I actually consider myself pretty unbias when it comes to consoles. Yes, I own a PS3, but hell, I didn't touch it for about a month and a half because I'd signed up to X-box live and was rather addicted to Halo 3 (which no-matter what anyone says, has the best online multi-played of any game, ever). And then for the past month I stole my friend's Wii so I could play Super Smash Brothers. Which is also awesome. Despite being on one of the silliest consoles ever.

I'll leave you today with one thought:

If you want to lose weight, go for a jog. Don't jump around the front room like a demented bat. It's just silly and you're only going to break something.