{"id":79,"date":"2006-08-04T08:57:22","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T15:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/2006\/08\/my-new-playstation\/"},"modified":"2006-08-04T08:57:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T15:57:23","slug":"my-new-playstation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/2006\/08\/my-new-playstation\/","title":{"rendered":"My new Playstation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally broke down in my personal dislike for console gaming last weekend and went out to WalMart to get a PS2.&nbsp; The rationale was pretty simple &#8211; my wife wanted to play console games like Sonic, which she apparently enjoyed as a kid, and consoles really aren&rsquo;t that expensive.&nbsp; The decision process on which console to get was a lot more involved, and was hampered by the fact that we both had different things we wanted out of the machines.&nbsp; In the end, our list looked something like this:<\/p>\n<p>PS2<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Excellent library of games (including the FF series for me!)<\/li>\n<li>Significantly behind the leading edge (XBox and X360)<\/li>\n<li>Cheap<\/li>\n<li>Well supported by mod chips for if and when we move back to Australia<\/li>\n<li>No HDTV (480p doesn&rsquo;t count, really)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>XBox<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good game library<\/li>\n<li>Better graphics than PS2, worse than X360<\/li>\n<li>Relatively cheap, but only available second hand or refurbished<\/li>\n<li>Extremely well supported by mod chips and third party mods (it&rsquo;s just a PC after all)<\/li>\n<li>Some HDTV (720p mostly)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>X360<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Limited game library and limited backward compatibility<\/li>\n<li>Very strong leader in its generation<\/li>\n<li>Expensive (no way I want a core system)<\/li>\n<li>No mod chips yet, and I really do need these.<\/li>\n<li>Excellent HDTV support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wait for a PS3<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$600??!?&nbsp; You&rsquo;re kidding&hellip;&nbsp; I&rsquo;d buy a PC for that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, weighing all that up we ended up going for a PS2 with the intention of looking closely at the X360 once the PS3 comes out and price adjustments happen.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m still amazed by how small the PS2 actually is &ndash; it really looks like a slightly oversized CD walkman.<\/p>\n<p>As you may have guessed, I&rsquo;m having fun playing the FF series now and my wife has finished the Ice Age 2 game and is looking to play a Wallace and Grommit game next.&nbsp; She&rsquo;s promised to look at FF and Kingdom Hearts sometime in the future but I think she&rsquo;s holding off because she knows I want her to look at them and somehow hates it when I&rsquo;m right about the games she&rsquo;ll enjoy (her logic is really weird sometimes, of course I know what she likes after being married seven years).<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the PS2 has reinforced my belief that PC gaming isn&rsquo;t going away and that it offers a viable platform for the future despite console fans crowing over its death with vapid regularity.&nbsp; You really can&rsquo;t beat a keyboard\/mouse interface for a whole class of games (RTS\/MMOG) and the incremental upgrade process you can use in PCs really makes them much more powerful in the long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally broke down in my personal dislike for console gaming last weekend and went out to WalMart to get a PS2.&nbsp; The rationale was pretty simple &#8211; my wife wanted to play console games like Sonic, which she apparently enjoyed as a kid, and consoles really aren&rsquo;t that expensive.&nbsp; The decision process on which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}