Playstation 4 vs. WiiU

This is a post with a rant. Sony has been on there arse since the release of their big console. I've wished many times I would like it more than I do. I'm a Sony fanboy, or I guess I should be. We, and by we I mean me and my boyfriend considered heavily on the question WiiU vs. PS4. The latter lost. This has a few good and solid reasons.

We've made this choice based on our research to both consoles. I also want to add that in a later point in time we will also own a PS4. Yet for now, our favor goes to the WiiU.

The first being the price. The PS4 is a heavy price to pay. It's well worth it's price when you look at the components. Thats something that I cannot deny. However, the PS4 is being devalued for now because of it's small game library. This, over time, will grow and make the PS4 a more valuable weapon in the arsenal of the gamer. The WiiU on the other hand, might not be as powerfull when you look at the components but blowes the PS4 out of the battlefield for the moment.

The games were our second reason. The current set for the WiiU is bigger, but it doesn't stop there. The PS4 has a pretty low steam when it comes of future titles; but when it comes, it comes with a bang. There are a few great ones among those, I cannot deny, titles that will put all consoles to shame and predecesors that are legends of games.

We ofcourse think of titles like Infamous, Uncharted and a God of War. The last one on that list isn't confirmed but i'm pretty sure Santa Monica Studios is going to richen our lives with another epic tale of gods and demigods.

The WiiU has also some pretty strong liquor in their stomach. Think of games like Hyrule Warriors, Mario Kart 8 and an Metroid game to look forward to. These really compete on the 'enjoyable' factor of games mentioned above.

We all know that PS4 is more for the hardcore gamer and the WiiU, or better said, Nintendo for casual. There is no point in fighting that front of the battle. We just had a luxury choice to make as in the end, we will have both side by side, next to DS'ses, PS3, PS2, PS, Gameboys, Gamecube, Gaming PC's, Xbox and an Xbox 360. We welcome both to our powerfull arsenal of game consoles and into our gaming life, yet for now the WiiU makes more sense to buy.

The PS4 still has a pretty long road ahead of itself. A road, that perhaps, and preferable we will not walk all the way. WiiU here we come, show us what u got! It is time to slay some monster in Monster Hunter.

PS3 | YLOD infected my own PS3!

Yes. It happened. My 60GB launch model Playstation died yesterday giving a yellow light. This was a sad moment indeed as I've recieved an early christmas present, Ratched and Clank: Nexus, wich after installing and playing for a few minutes made my PS3 go ballistic on me.

I happen to be in the situation where I can get a second PS3 without HDD, and maby revive my christmas joy by swapping the HDD and hoping for the best. If that doesn't work than I'll probably buy a new PS3, to also say that I will also get a PS4. You might say, why not pay that small fee for the conversion of the game and keep all games on the PS4? Well, my game library is so big that converting all games would cost more than an actual PS3, and there are still plenty of games I want to play on a PS3.

My PS3 was a very versatile device, playing my games, movies, netflix and music at a rare occasion. I will try to repair this one and keep this post up-to-date with the developements and photo's of the internals. That for sure is going to give me an interesting experience.

Yes, I've been able to get a second playstation on my hands. My lovely boyfriend happened to have one that had a broken HDD. I knew this and so he brought this along as he came over to me. The left(60GB) playstation is mine and right(40GB) is his. 

Swapping out the HDD's is an easy task, taking all of this and switching took less than ten minutes. When we did, we took them to a power outlet to try it out. We discovered that our adventure wasn't over yet. The machine came up with a message that basicly mean't that It woudn't take the system that was installed on the HDD. It required a update from a USB device.

I did as prompted, found an old unused; formatted to FAT32 usb drive. The PS3 took a few minutes to gather the guts to install the update and TADA! Now the system was running, but yet another problem rose. I needed the disc that was in my other system. Ratchet and Clank: Nexus. The gift that was given to me :)

Getting the disc out of the system was actually fairy easy. After googling I found out that the fan blowout cycle is able to remove disc from a dead system. I've used the blowout function before on a dusted machine of friends and relatives.

Did as instructed on the website and the disc came out without any problems. Now I was a few minutes off to playing the actual game without having any damages other than a system that died on me. That old bugger really grew on me. I bought this on release with Motorstorm and Resistance, it played a ton of games, movies and showed many *cough* usb transfered files.

All and all a very solid system to me. Now as for my own PS3. I will take this to a friend who has the tools, time and knowledge to pry it open and have a look to see if we can fix this thing. If that happens than I might have some early christmas magic coming at me.

As for now...