Wii vs PS3: The Definitive Guide
The Onion has your definitive guide to this season's newest game consoles. What's the key difference? The Wii senses motion; the PS3 senses fear.
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The Onion has your definitive guide to this season's newest game consoles. What's the key difference? The Wii senses motion; the PS3 senses fear.
Even if I wasn't excited by the thought of personally playing the games, moments like this, watching my daughter really get into Wii Boxing, are worth the price of the console and then some:
A leaked memo from National Security Council chief Stephen Hadley:
The information he receives is undoubtedly skewed by his small circle of [...] advisers, coloring his actions and interpretation of reality. His intentions seem good when he talks with Americans, [...] But the reality on the streets of Baghdad suggests [he] is either ignorant of what is going on, misrepresenting his intentions, or that his capabilities are not yet sufficient to turn his good intentions into action.Turns out, he isn't talking about Bush.
Jim Henley is taking the week off of work to ... blog a whole lot apparently. Anyway, as one of the smartest political bloggers out there, heavy blogging from Mr Henley means tons of good thoughtful reading material for the world.
Jim tackles one of my personal long-time favorite hobbyhorses today in discussing the problem of bringing good, low cost grocery shopping to poor urban neighborhoods. Turns out that both government and major grocery chains are too inflexible and bureaucratic to deal effectively with the complexities of integrating into older, denser neighborhoods. Too often in situations like these, the government's power of eminent domain is abused to force landowners to sell against their will to a developer too lazy to do the hard work of assembling a large plot of land or creatively designing developments around problem properties. The existing smaller stores can't compete on price with the big chain so why would anyone argue that the neighborhood is better off without the use of the government's power to force the turnover of land at favorable prices to the chain? Well, as Jim points out better than I could, if you're going to subsidize someone, why not the people who are already serving the neighborhood?
The wisdom of Mark Lilberman: "when talking to the press, never mention Eskimos and their words for snow."
So I'm playing Twilight Princess and I realize that it's been a really long time since I've beaten a console Zelda game. I played and beat the original Zelda, Zelda II, and A Link to the Past on SNES, but Ocarina of Time came along and I never made it through. I didn't even play Majora's Mask, and Wind Waker's sailing bored me early on; plus focusing on Zelda with a toddler in the house is a lot harder, as it turns out.
I wondered how much story I had missed (not that continuity between games is important in any way), so I checked out the Wikipedia entries for Ocarina and Wind Waker and well, wow. It turns out I never really made it past the introductory quest-for-these-three Xs that you have to pass before the game sets you off on the real find-these-seven other-Xs. In other words, I doubt I played more than 15% of either game.
Thinking back, I never played much more of Metroid Prime 2 or Super Mario Sunshine, and I got further but never finished the original Metroid Prime. Is the last big Nintendo game I completed really Super Mario 64?
Anyway, I don't know if I expect to play through this latest Zelda or not, but score one for games that don't require such time commitment. The Wii's surfeit of minigame-loaded titles is looking awfully nice these days.
The wisdom of Matt Haughey: "So I guess the moral of the story is you should really use those little leash things and I’m a bigger spazz than I thought."
The Wisdom of Jim Henley: "It can be very hard for Hulk to know just whom to smash sometimes."