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What's your favorite video game system?
- Nintendo Wii (22%, 64 Votes)
- Xbox 360 (26%, 74 Votes)
- Playstation 3 (4%, 13 Votes)
- Playstation 2 (3%, 8 Votes)
- PSP (0%, 1 Votes)
- Nintendo DS (2%, 6 Votes)
- Gameboy Advance (0%, 1 Votes)
- PC (16%, 47 Votes)
- Other (1%, 4 Votes)
- I'm not a gamer (26%, 72 Votes)
Total Voters: 290
This poll will be active and displayed on the sidebar through 11.10.2007.
I thought it would be fun to mix things up with a totally non-real-estate-related poll. For me it’s a tough choice. I’ve got the Wii, 360, DS and of course a PC. Each has different strengths and I’ve got favorite games on each. The great thing about the PC is total backward compatibility. I still play Starcraft (came out in 1998!) with some regularity.
Of course, the PC isn’t too great for social in-person gaming, and it’s a lot harder to just pick up and play for a few minutes like you can with consoles. If I had to pick a favorite, I’ll probably go with the Wii, since it plays 100% of my fairly substantial Gamecube library, and even the basic bundled-in game is good for endless hours of fun with friends and family.
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Nintendo. The glorious original 8-bit system.
Games that you could learn in 10 minutes, a simple controller and lots of titles to choose from. Also, they’re built really well: the system I got for Christmas in 1988 still works just fine today!
PC all the way, baby.
FYI, I get this when posting a comment (the comment does post, so maybe it’s the redirect afterward?):
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Thanks for the heads up, LHR. I deactivated the plugin that was causing the trouble until I have some time to check it out a little more. This should eliminate the issue. Let me know if you keep getting that problem.
Aside from killing a few minutes here and there with Freecell or (showing my age here) Tetris, I haven’t played a video game since my cousins had an Atari in my high school years (*really* showing my age here).
That said, not half an hour ago the box from Amazon delivered a Wii to our house. Gonna be a gift to our family from Santa this Christmas. My kids like to play on the computer (a few educational games, pbskids.org stuff), but those aren’t really games that we can do together as a family, and it’s “screen time” that keeps them more or less on their butts in front of a display screen. From what I’ve heard the Wii is fun for adults and kids, you can all play together, and it gets everyone up and moving…My husband and I are really looking forward to Christmas morning. Gonna be hard to wait!
I was a die-hard PC gamer from ~’97 until about 2 years ago when I picked up an XBox (bad timing, as the 360 came out shortly thereafter). I got sick of compatibility issues and constant upgrade cycles to play new games. I still prefer the PC for certain game types – god/build & conquer games (I’m a big SimCity and Civilization fan), RTS (never got into SC, but loved Warcraft and War2), and FPS (keyboard + mouse > controller). But for most other things, the consoles are just easier and more fun. A lot of the PC game market has forgotten the fun quotient and just tries to cram BIGGER!, BETTER! FASTER!, MORE! down our throat.
Wii is by far the most fun social gaming platform. Can’t beat Wii Bowl or Wii Tennis for amusement. Angie, make sure your game room is BIG with nothing that can be easily broken!
Although I have a Wii, I’ll have to put my support behind the PC because it really seems to be the underdog lately. All I ever hear about is Halo and Guitar Hero and Wii Sports. And even though games with PC roots (Bioshock, Half-Life 2, UT3, etc.) are coming out on consoles nobody I know has even heard of them.
Also, console FPS’s are a travesty.
I vote for Wii, but I guess your readership is Seattle centric and thus XBox will be the top choice given it’s Microsoft’s home turf.
I’ve gotten a ton of use out of my PS2, but for christmas I’m dropping hints for a Wii. My boyfriend isn’t a gamer but the Wii is something we’d be able to enjoy together.
I’m putting off buying a new pc until Spore is released. My taste is games is pretty much the same as WestSideBilly.
“FPS (keyboard + mouse > controller)”
That says it all for me. The games I love are usually FPS, aka BioShock, System Shock 2, HalfLife 1 & 2, etc. Tryin to twitch-aim with a controller is maddening! They have yet to beat the WASD/Mouselook system for that.
I’m currently playing Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, since I never finished it the first time. Finished BioShock back in September.
“FPS (keyboard + mouse > controller)”
Same here, for the same reason. I generally stick to FPS as other genres demand too much time at one sitting. I can play a shooter for 1/2 an hour, get re-energized, then go back to work.
HalfLife rocks, and the new mod Team Fortress 2 is the most fun team-based FPS ever.
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I like the mixup of polls… It adds a nice antidote to the seriousness of our current economic environment.
Personally I am loving the Wii… I bought mine last December as an Xmas gift for our family and we all love it. Even the Mrs likes playing, and she typically enjoys watching but not playing. Not so with the Wii… She gets in and really gets her game on!
Second choice would have to be PC. I hate to admit it but I love The Sims 2 as well as Unreal Tournament.
We also have three Nintendo DS’s and frequently play multiplayer games with the whole family. It’s like a 50’s family scene, but with nerds.
“It’s like a 50’s family scene, but with nerds.” Love it! Makes me think of Gary Larson’s Far Side cartoons.
And I can definitely relate. We’re not gamers (as my prior comment attests), so I’d be inclined to describe us of nerds of a different color, so to speak…but then I think, when my youngest was 2, she already had mousing skills down pat, and figured out from watching the rest of us how to load a CD, click the play button, and get going with her sister’s computer games unassisted. Dang!
A tough call, we have most of these except PS3. I vote PS2 because of the wealth and variety of titles. They’re still making PS2-compatible versions of new releases! (like GH3, COD4, etc.) That ought to tell you something. PS2 came out before NGC and XBOX, but do they still make new titles for those? Not so much. 360 comes in close second because of the decent selection of titles and the quality of graphics and gameplay.
Wow, the results so far don’t exactly bode well for the PS3…
17% for the PC
22% for the Wii
26% for the Xbox 360
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4% for the PS3?!?
Ouch.