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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark W**a" data-source="post: 53124" data-attributes="member: 1196">It probably surprises people to learn that I really love Sony hardware, considering how hard I **** on the PS3, and why I'm a 360 only gamer this gen and why I've only owned a 360 since 2006.Even though I preferred Sega Saturn and Dreamcast, I still loved PS1 and 2.  And if we flash forward to 2005, during the beginning of the 360/PS3 hype, with Sega dead I was pretty much a Sony fanboy.  I wrote off the 360 as "Xbox 1.5", said it was way too soon (and it was, Xbox 1 only launched in 2001, a paltry 4 years later a successor is coming?  What bull****, I thought.  And early on I remember ALL the Sony lies and hype.  The way Sony was making it seem, and some of the gaming press, was that PS3 was going to destroy 360.  You had to be around for E3 2005 and 2006.  Sony made huge promises that all turned out to be lies, showed us CG trailers lied and said it was real time, Ridge Racer Giant Enemy Crab Real time weapons change and then finally I was told to get a second job to afford a 599$ console.When we finally did get hardware, it had an outdated, weak GPU, and the games ended up looking worse than their 360 counterparts.  That was pretty much final straw for me.  360's amazing interface and superior online and features were just a nice, surprising bonus.Sony has since lowered the price, has since improved the online, but I don't care for the Western library (Uncharted, Infamous, LBP, yadda yadda yadda no thanks), and the hardware still has problems with framerate and IQ in multiplatform games.  It was and is bad hardware.  Like Sega's Saturn, it's got more powerful CPU on paper, but in the real world the PS1 got the better results 9 times out of 10.  And unlike Saturn, Sony's first party is a joke compared to Sega's back in the day.  With a couple of exceptions, I do not care for Sony's first party one bit, and never have.But now it seems MS has the bad hardware, going by early specs.  Sony has learned from it's mistakes and I'm excited as hell for this new box.  At 399 or even 499 I'm there, so long as the specs hold true, at this point in time, Xbox Durango isn't even on my radar.</blockquote>

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