I think the best analogy is that consoles are film series that some may like and some may not. My choices (and reasons) are here. What are your choices?
Nintendo: Toy Story Trilogy
Why?:
- Designed for and enjoyed by all ages
- Multi-layered with deep writing for the adults, bright colours for the kids, and an all around fun experience for all
- Initiative for their times
- Visually looks great for the art style
- No matter how much you try and deny that Toy Story is cool, in then end Toy Story Rocks
Sony: Die Hard Anthology
- Started off with a solid knowledge of the art
- Defined the genre and the art in some ways
- Started off Awesome as F**k
- As technology got better, the films started to loose what was important about the original as they started competing with more flashy and spectacular competition.
- Core surface elements remain the same throughout (John McLaine killing bad guys) mean that fans of the original will keep on going to see sequels.
Microsoft: Michael Bay's Transformers films
- A mere shell of what the art was about in the first place
- Designed to be flashy and distracting, uses the technology, explosions, boobies and homeerotic teststorone fueled imargy to attract its audiance
- Watched mainly by adolescents who think explosions and boobs are what make film great, and watched by fans of the previous generation of Transformers fans who shed a tear at the same time as reassuring themselves that what Michael Bay has done to the series is "fine"
- Designed totally and utterly to get the customer to pay as much money as possible for something of little substance
- With each time the technology gets better the further away it comes from the roots of it being classed as an actually film.
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As you can see each console is a film series that some people prefer over others and could be seen as equal to picking a film you want to watch at night
