Big Ones and Small Ones
January 27, 2009 33 Comments
While gaming reviews are typically a dime a dozen, this particular write-up covers eight different consoles ranging from the Xbox 360 to the Nintendo GameCube and eloquently lists succinct pros and cons to help you with your video game console purchasing dilemmas. Astute insights such as references to “gutter hero” and “You have to plug it into the TV” as a con make this unique analysis a must read. The quality of the scan is less than optimal so I have converted it into a text chart after the jump. I don’t know if I should apologize or say you’re welcome.
| System | PS2 | PS3 | Wii | Xbox 360 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pros | Big ones and small ones. | Its new you can play good games. | You can play long adventure games. | You can play gutter hero on it. It has halo3, grand theft auto 4. |
| Cons | You have to plug it into the tv. | It cost lots of money. Cannot play 4 players. Have to plug it into the tv. | It takes Battery’s and you have to buy a charger for the Battery’s. | You have to buy the gutter to play gutter hero. You have to plug it in the tv. |
| Rating | 6/10 | 9/10 | 9/10 | 9/10 |
| System | DS | GameCube | Computer | PSP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pros | Its portable and it comes with its own charger. | You can play four players at once and it’s small. | You can play on the internet. | Its portable and it comes with its own charger. |
| Cons | You can lose the styles for it. You have to charge it after a while. | The discs are small so you may lose it. | You have to pay to get on the internet. | It’s expensive and you have to charge it every once in a while. |
| Rating | 7/10 | 6/10 | 10/10 | 9/10 |
…Wow.
hit the nail on the head with those reviews
I’m confused!…So many choices!!
short and to the point…. not sure quite which point??
This person is quite unaware of free wifi, apparently.
I followed this reviewer’s good advice and bought… A pistol. And one single bullet.
They’re also quite unaware of basic spelling and grammar. I’m guessing 8 years old.
Guess this explains why Ziff Davis dropped EGM. ZING!
Also… can you play the Wii without plugging it into the TV? Does it have some kind of brain-port?
I know that this is just a little kid, but the pros and cons are fairly inaccurate.
@snorkle256 What could be inaccurate about requiring “battery’s” or having to buy the “gutter” to play “gutter hero”?
As a side note, Gutter Hero 3 was my least favorite in the series. Although I like that you could buy custom gutter guards, I didn’t like boss fights you had to do against yellow jackets and wasps. I just want to clean gutters, it didn’t need a battle mode.
Guitar haro is cool
it’s gutter hero. obviously.
Just wow
it seems like having to play the console on a TV is a bad thing? would you rather just hope you’re pressing the right buttons?
who gives the gamecube a 6/10?
wow just wow O_o
Where is this from??
My 7 year old knows more about the above systems than this nub does. :P
@ Trixie –
I won’t dispute that, but while reading the reviews it crossed my mind that Cameron (the reviewer) might just be a kid as well.
this is funny. i can’t believe this was in any sort of paper at all. and he gave the computer 10/10 and the Wii 9/10 but would suggest the Wii over the computer? does that make since?
Everybody loves gutter hero :P
Wait, you have to pay to get on the internet?
Kato,
I thought Gutter Hero 3 was OK. At least you didn’t have to buy the gutter to play like you do with Gutter Hero 4. I’ve got enough gutters lying around now to refit my whole house!
If you don’t plug the Wii into a TV, where does it go?
Congrats Angel; you managed to use the words: eloquent, succinct and astute in your review of something quite clearly the opposite.
Missed erudite and concise though… (c’mon, you DO have to plug some of them into the TV?!) ;)
Cameron is on the technical pulse and obviously a ‘Forerunner’ when it comes to the world of Gaming… (what?! I can’t do one Halo gag?)
Think it’s an Australian backwater rag. Can just make out parts of the review to the left.
I lost my Game Cube because the discs were small.
Maybe that wouldn’t have happened if you would have kept it plugged into your tv? Just sayin’. ;)
The computer will always win!
Now, if you could make your own X360 or PS3, then it would be a different story.
weak sauce!
DS beats PSP any day, fuck this sony fan boy even in jokes our true selves come forth
although i do like the way he dodged the which console is better by rating them the same…
Rofl. “Cameron” needs to lean how to spell!
And like WTF PS2 PS3 X360 Wii and Gcube all plug into the television! It’s no surprise! How will you get visual then?!?
*Facepalm of massive proportions*
Where the hell do you find this stuff?!
English: not their strong point.
I do havings trouble using speech words too neither.