So, there I was randomly browsing Gamespot when I came across a neat looking game by the name Chromehounds (link to Gamespot). As far as I can tell, you get to build your own mech and then battle with it online. While Mechwarrior 4 degenerated into gauss rifle and LRM battles, for the most part, I'm hopeful that they've got a better balance for this one.
Anyways, that's not the point of this thread...
So, there I was browsing this stuff and thinking about how my PS2 will shortly become relegated to the "obsolete" pile as people stop producing A-list games for it. Arguably, they may have stopped that already, but there are still some recent titles (Resident Evil 4 leaps immediately to mind) that are excellent on it. I've enjoyed my PS2 and I welcome the change from PC games, so I'm wondering about getting a next-gen console. I don't believe that there's any point choosing something other than the Xbox 360 or the PS3... I've scanned the games lists and reviews on the other consoles and they simply don't seem to have the weight behind them. It'd be like choosing a Mac to play games, and that'd be crazy.
Before I go much further down this route, though, I wonder whether, in buying one of these consoles, I pretty much have to get myself a HDTV too, or whether I'd not really be missing much. At the moment I have just about the cheapest colour stereo TV I could buy from around three years ago. I don't watch TV (at all) and almost all my DVDs I watch on a PC so I don't really care about TV quality... but I do get the impression that I'm selling myself short on the graphical quality of my PS2 games, never mind next-gen stuff.
So, the question:
If I buy an Xbox 360 or a PS3, must I or should I also be buying an HDTV?
Anyways, that's not the point of this thread...
So, there I was browsing this stuff and thinking about how my PS2 will shortly become relegated to the "obsolete" pile as people stop producing A-list games for it. Arguably, they may have stopped that already, but there are still some recent titles (Resident Evil 4 leaps immediately to mind) that are excellent on it. I've enjoyed my PS2 and I welcome the change from PC games, so I'm wondering about getting a next-gen console. I don't believe that there's any point choosing something other than the Xbox 360 or the PS3... I've scanned the games lists and reviews on the other consoles and they simply don't seem to have the weight behind them. It'd be like choosing a Mac to play games, and that'd be crazy.
Before I go much further down this route, though, I wonder whether, in buying one of these consoles, I pretty much have to get myself a HDTV too, or whether I'd not really be missing much. At the moment I have just about the cheapest colour stereo TV I could buy from around three years ago. I don't watch TV (at all) and almost all my DVDs I watch on a PC so I don't really care about TV quality... but I do get the impression that I'm selling myself short on the graphical quality of my PS2 games, never mind next-gen stuff.
So, the question:
If I buy an Xbox 360 or a PS3, must I or should I also be buying an HDTV?