Often overlooked is what OTHER nifty little things consoles can do apart from play games. This takes a look at all the promising little features each next-gen console will incorporate.
The Xbox 360 was a fantastic console in its day with some truly classic titles, but what are the seven best games for the console?
I'll go with,
Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Culdcept Saga, Shadow Complex, Ace Combat 6 with the flight stick,A Kingdom for Keflings, A World of Keflings.
Bonus Kinect Games: Happy Action Theater and Sesame Street.
*Skyrim was so bad on PS3 that it almost deserves to be #1*
Ah yes, Shadow Complex! Good indies back in the day. Summer of Arcade. I enjoyed Trials Evolution as well.
Was this made by a.i.? No human being would put Shadowrun, Fable III, and Splinter Cell: Conviction into a list of the 7 best Xbox 360 games.
Would love to play Ace Combat6 on PlayStation, but Xbox decided to buy exclusivity and keep it off a competing platform.
The only mainline game I never played except for one level at a friends place. Game sold less than any other in the series if I remember correctly.
360 had Namco hitters AC6 and RR6... both quality titles. You should at least bust out the 360 for AC6 if you can score the flight stick. Its great.
When the current gen XBOX offering is so lacking people need to refer to games released two generations back....
It's a nostalgia peice same reason we get thousands of YouTube videos on sega genisis. Something people have fond memories for but the era is long gone.
It's xboxs golden year imo it was their genisis years the time where they stuck it to the market leaders Sony.
They stuck nothing. Sony screwed themselves giving Xbox an opening. They would have gotten the usual smack down if the PS3 had launched at $399 and was easier to develop for.
The classic puzzle game, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, is now playable in Street Fighter 6's Game Centre, along with other new additions.
i think the launch features will be amature compared to the things that could come in the future. one dissapointing aspect from all consoles is that no ones announced downloadable applications/programs. just games and media. its hard to bet against microsoft on this one but if there was one feature that could stand out more than the rest its a browser. if all three systems get a browser, i'd be very suprised if the system that "won" the features award for next gen console didnt have the best browser of the 3.
I'm definetely getting the wii. I just like its freshness and intuitive new way of playing videogames. :) :D :O :P
its a new way of playing simple games with simple tasks. i appreciate what nintendo is tryin to do, but how anyone can have confidence in a stubborn, self glorifying, retrospective company baffles me. people say they are "changing the way you play games", how about actually changing the games themselves. i dont want a new controller to play old games i've played before. why not look ahead rather looking back? why not ditch the played out heros of 2 decades ago? why not make the games interesting as opposed to making the way you play them temporarily interesting?
i dont mean to insult your comments #2, i just wish someone would explain all this hype to me.
I can't believe the guy left out a huge feature for the 360. 20 Gigs and even 60 gigs is too small to store all of your music, pictures, tv shows, home movies etc. The hard drive should be used exclusively for downloadable marketplace content and game saves. That fills up 20 or 60 gigs easy. The home of the future is a networked home with a media server in your closet or office streaming your media to an extender such as an xbox 360. I already stream all of my tv shows both standard def and high def to my 360 as well as music, pictures, home video and web sites. I don't have to worry about viruses or spyware on the 360 or a browser cache hogging all of my consoles hard drive because it is just doing a screen capture from the pc. Web surfing with tradional web pages on a tv is tedious. Who wants to sit that close to their tv to read the text or zoom in on various portions of a web page. Web pages will look very funny anyways on a big screen. The scale is all wrong. There are websites that are specifically designed for viewing on a tv. Heavy on video and large text. They all work through the media center interface with just a remote and not a clumsy keyboard that you keep on your lap while sitting on the couch. Sony and Nintendo should partner with MS and get more content providers to provide these tv type interfaces as well as the traditional pc interfaces.
There are lots of freely downloadable apps such as rss readers, weather programs, games, IM clients, calendars, pim software etc. All of it is already integrated with what you already have. A pc. No need to have your media and data on two separate machines. All you need to do is access it from your 360 remote or controller. Currently non-media center users can only stream music and I believe pictures from their pc. I think MS should allow users to stream video and really all media from any networked device such as a tivo box. I hear there is a direct tv blade coming so who knows. Easier said than done, but certainly it's possible to stream videos from a non media center pc with a tv capture card.
a Browser is nice idea for a console but I question how fully featured those browsers are. Will they render pages correctly. Will they support flash and allow you to download or stream video. Will they have all the video codecs such as quicktime, wmv, real, mpeg and any new codec that comes along. Will they let you install active x controls or applets? I seriously question whether these browser will let you look at anything beyond text and pictures and how future proof they are.
Do you really want linux taking up a couple of gigabytes of space on a 20 gigabyte harddrive? If sony provides the kinda of downloads that Ms provides for marketplace than hard drive space is at a premium.
Once the price of a 360 comes down to $200 or less people will be able to have multiple 360s to view or listen to their media anywhere a tv or stereo is in their home. Not to mention if they buy the hd-dvd add on they will be able to attach the add on to any of those 360 and watch hd movies anywhere in the house. A nice arguement for having a non integrated hd movie player. :-) Although I would just rather download the hd-dvd movies to my pc and stream them to the 360.
The media extender cabilities represents the best next generation accessory out of all the next gen consoles to me.
I totally agree, I think the wii is cute, however, I beleive that the biggest accessory sales for the will be gamepads. Sorry, don't want to try and play linebacker on madden with a numbchuck or wiimote, give me a gamepad/controller.