Xbox Stands Out Among Gaming Consoles

Why should anyone choose the Xbox 360 over the other competing game consoles of the day? It’s more advanced than some but boasts fewer benefits than others. It also happens to be the oldest of what is now considered the holy trinity of gaming consoles: The Wii, the Xbox and the Playstation. With all that choice out there, what makes this, the older one-by a whopping year and a bit-the one worth choosing?

The Playstation 3 fell victim to timing. The Xbox 360 already had time to build up a user base and then the PS 3 came out only to have to directly compete with the Wii. Sure, they say again and again that the Wii isn’t direct competition, but when all the news channels and magazines constantly chant how much the Wii is being accepted and flying off the shelves versus how the PS3 is overpriced and always in stock, well, it’s direct competition-if only for the spotlight.

The Nintendo Wii, released long after the 360, has sold roughly two thirds as many units worldwide than Microsoft’s console was able to sell. As for the third outing for the Playstation brand, well that’s just embarrassing just about everybody. Either way, Microsoft and Sony keep referring to each other as competition but claim the Wii isn’t something they consider competition. That means Microsoft gets to brag about being the best. But how is that so? The Xbox 360 is a gaming console and the Wii is a gaming console. How do these things not count as competition?

Games designed in house by Nintendo make their platform stand out, so maybe it’s just the 3rd party designers who simply can’t figure out how to make the best of the Wii’s system. That really doesn’t matter from a consumer standpoint though. Whether Wii has untapped potential or not, the bottom line is that a lot of the best games just aren’t there.

The games that are available to the Xbox 360 are far more advanced from a graphic point of view than those available for the Wii. They can also be designed to be more in depth and faster moving because the Xbox platform is just so powerful. In fact, many third party game designers can’t or simply don’t bother trying to put certain games on the Wii because it just won’t do what they want.

Whether it was the fault of the Wii or the fact that people just didn’t want it, the PS 3 didn’t sell well. This means less people are using it which means a lot of the gaming experience that the Xbox 360 and PS 3 are built around are simply better with the former. With the online gaming world, for instance, would you rather play the games amongst a fan base of 30 million people with the Xbox, or less than 15 million with the PS 3?

Until the PS 3 gets more acceptance, which may happen in the next couple of years, the Xbox 360 is the clear winner when it comes to high powered gaming consoles. The Wii, on the other hand, is not a machine built around selling games, but is a machine built around selling the nifty idea of waving around a controller.