I believe at the start he said it would be an 8-part article.

Has anyone considered commenting where the guy can read it, on the article itself asking why such a strong defense for such an obvious truth must be in so many words to convince people?

*sigh* How many more of these articles must we endure?

It's nonsense as well. The 360 is being annihilated in Japan and that isn't going to change. Sony and Nintendo will dominate that market again this year.

@ everyone

I thank you for your feedback. I would like to explain the reason for writing this article.

The Xbox 360 has been heavily criticized lately, for no good reason. Everyone has been claiming that the PS3 has a stronger line-up and the Xbox 360 has no titles worth looking forward to this year. When such an absurd statement is made, and I can do something to clarify to all gamers, that are blindly supporting it, that the statement is inaccurate, I will. That is why I chose to write this article.

However, when I started writing it, I did not expect it to grow to its current size. Furthermore, when I was finally done, the end result was a 20,000 word article!! Regardless of the fact that it was an article to be proud of, it was too much for gamers to digest, so I decided to break it down to small bites.
It is entirely up to the reader to choose to read these articles.

I understand that you might believe that I am taking too long to make a point that could be done in a single article. However, the problem is that this article has so much information that a single article would not be enough, and if it were, it would be too long. All I ask is that you bare with me a little longer, I only have three more to go; we are almost done.

@ Taker4ever
Did you ever hear about the power of Compounding? if not, I recommend checking it out.

@ HisServant77
I don't know why you would like to make sure that my upcoming articles don't get approved. I don't believe they are hurting anyone, so if you would rather not read them, then don't, and if there is something about them that bothers you, please tell me so that I could use your feedback to make better articles instead of just shutting me out.

@ Play ISDF
It's not about the traffic. I know that breaking down the article into eight chapters instead of releasing them as a single article would massively increase traffic, but I mainly broke it down to give people a chance to read them rather than quickly scan through a huge article that I worked really hard on preparing.

In the end, I personally thought that this website has mature gamers that have healthy and clean discussions, which is why I decided to post on it. My articles were never meant to offend anyone; they were only meant to educate and entertain.

God Bless You All

Master Samo

master samo I read your first article fully and only glanced over the subsequent ones and they have been written quite well. However the reason I believe Sony is going to have a better perceived 2009 is due to console life expectancy.

Sony is in its third you now and when you look back over these 3 years, its first was just plain awful (save uncharted and ratchet and clank). Its second year was extremely solid (no pun intended to MGS) and I felt that both consoles lines ups were pretty even. And now we are in the PS3's third year which the game line up moves past being solid to just amazing.

However when you compare this to the 360's third year which in my opinion was the consoles best (halo 3, bioshock, mass effect, crackdown etc), the consoles appear to be following trend.

So in my opinion why the 360 is going to be a long way off the ps3 this year is because this going to be a very much transitional year for it. I expect that at E3 Sony's main emphasis will be on software for this year and possibly next year. While microsoft is going to bring new concepts with the emphasis on hardware to reinvent the console.

Frankly, Samo, none of your points hold much credibility. They're just speculation layered on top of guesswork. And the fact that you implied the 360 was doing well in Japan when the PS3 outsells it every month suggests that you're being incredibly one sided. Post another five-paragraph retort, I don't care. It still won't make me take this seriously.

The word, Dominate, seems a little too strong for the article.
Sony and Nintendo are providing admirable alternatives of equal quality and enjoyment. I do not see, opinion or otherwise, how Microsoft will DOMINATE 2009. Some good points though. You could provide more weighings of each systems offers and provide the opportunity cost of committing money to one lineup and not the other.

Plentiful article is plentiful. And nice to munch on during a lunchbreak so I do thank you for that.

@ kazad

I thank you for your positive feedback. However, I must correct you on something. The list of Xbox 360 titles you mentioned are from the second year, not the third. The third year had Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead, Fable 2, Ninja Gaiden 2, Banjo Kazooie, Viva Pinata 2, Lost Odyssey, Infinite Undiscovery, Tales of Vesperia, The Last Remnant, and Too Human. What is impressive about this list is that out of the 11 titles, 7 were first party!

God Bless You

Master Samo

Glad to see you replying, Master Samo.

Sorry to sound like I'm wanting to shut you out, what I mean by my comments are, well my opinion holds true to the first article and how I said everyone says the 360 will dominate every year, as well as everyone just the same says every year will be the year of the PS3. It's just a big fanboy battle with the 360 guys saying the 360 will dominate, and the PS3 guys saying the PS3 will dominate.

The truth of the matter is that who will "dominate" is one of those things with no answer. No console will "dominate" really because it depends on the gamers themselves and which games they personally enjoy! Who will win this year? The gamers who get the games they enjoy, because while other people talk about their console and why it's better than the other, gamers will play games and have the time of their lives.

So while this year I'm looking forward to more PS3 games than 360, someone else may be looking forward to more 360 games than PS3 games. Who is right and who is wrong? Neither one, because it's a matter of personal taste in games. If the PS3 moved $500K in hardware and software one year and the 360 moved $1.5 million that same year . . . and yet I enjoyed playing more PS3 games during that period of time, which console won in my eyes? The PS3, because I enjoyed the PS3 more than the 360 that year. What good to me is a console that moved high numbers, yet didn't get much of my attention or that I didn't enjoy that much? None whatsoever.

So the thing that gets me about these articles, is first and foremost: I despise the console war/fanboy attitude that seems to be overbearing this generation of consoles.

Second: Is the amount of words used to try to prove an opinion as fact. It's . . . almost like over-compensating. If something is fact, it pretty much proves itself. Sure you can explain that truth, but you don't NEED hundreds of millions of words to explain it. It can be merely explained by listing the games and saying, "Watch, it'll prove itself to win." But by using so many words to prove something so adamantly to be true . . . seems to tell the person you're trying to convince "What I'm saying may not be true, so let me say a LOT of words to compensate and try to convince you." Truth be told, if something is true, you state it and it should convince the person. If they're not convinced, it doesn't really matter because truth doesn't need the majority to believe it, in order for it to be truth.

But that's why I offered people to not approve any more of the articles. Nothing against you, just that after the 3rd part of saying opinion = fact . . . . it gets overbearing if you know what I mean.

Hope you make it back and comment more, it's good to see you joining the discussion here.