I believe the PS3 will be worth picking up at some point. The problem is the first party titles alone don’t warrant a purchase.

When I lived in Florida I knew a manager at EA. He told me to go with the 360 and not the PS3 (I already had a 360 since it was the first next gen console on the market). I asked him why and he flat out said they are having a really hard time getting games to run. I asked why and he told me the tools Sony has given them were not easy to use compared to the 360. He did say they will get it ironed out, but they are a multi-system developer and they care more about release dates (not him but corporate).

The thing none of you seem to understand is that it is going to take a long time to get EA, Ubisoft, and other large third party developers to create games that run as well as their 360 and PC counterparts. Those two systems programmers have been working on for years and could create great games in their sleep. An optimized PS3 game takes too much work for EA to dump more money on with a much smaller installed base.

Think of me what you want but I started on a Magnavox Odyssey 2, then to a Colleco Vision and a Commodore 64. I would be willing to bet I have spent more on Sony game equipment than all of you. Call me a fanboy if you like. All I know is I am playing the GOTY right now and I couldn’t be happier. Shame it isn’t on the PS3 because the majority of you will only own one system. How am I a fanboy again?

They say they haven’t had PS3 dev kits for long, but is that believable? They are – somehow – the worlds biggest games company, and would most likely be one of the first to receive dev kits.

What makes it doubly shameful is that smaller companies are already getting far better results than EA. Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Incognito, Activision, Evolution, Ubisoft… all have produced better results. Hell, even the PSN downloads have superior frame rates.

With the resources that EA have, there is no excuse at all for this shoddy level of output. The only reasons are that (a) they don’t care, or (b) they’re inept. Or both – which is a distinct possibility.

That said, the only title from EA that I’m interested in is Army of Two. If they feck that up, I’ll be mightily pissed off.

This reminds me the NHL games on Genesis vs. SNes. The framerate on the Genesis was way better (more enjoyable gameplay) while graphics were a bit crisper and colorful for snes.