Well my husband and I finally broke down and bought our kids a Playstation 3. We don’t have it yet, it is due in this week as the entire state of Maryland was sold out and we had to order it on Amazon. In the meantime we are dropping a ton of cash on buying games getting ready. In the future this should be a whole new topic – game reviews for parents, but in the meantime we are all looking forward to plugging in and powering up.
We decided to buy a Playstation 3 over the XBox 360 mainly due to the free online game access and the integrated Blue-Ray disk player that the Playstation has. My older son who is 20 is an accomplished gamer on all the systems, Wii, XBox, and Playstation and he said that the free online access was for him also the big reason he likes the Playstation as well and recommended it to us.
My husband and I originally started out to buy a Wii, but when we saw the graphics of the Wii compared to the Playstation and XBox there was simply no comparison. The Wii uses about 460 dpi and the Playstation and XBox about 1260. That’s a big difference in visual graphics!
The clincher for us was when we saw the Gods of War demo and the graphics were so life like it knocked our socks off. So stay tuned in the weeks and months to come as I play these new games and then pass on my candid, unvarnished, unpaid, for parent reviews.