PS3 VS Xbox 360

[bigblue]

am i the only person who just plays viva pinata on the 360?

If it's just that, possibly! Though I do play it too, fairly often.

[AGxM]

am i the only person who just plays viva pinata on the 360?

Don't feel too bad about admitting to my Lego Star Wars now

[acrobat]

So you cant upgrade the HDD's in the consoles?

u cant also plug in external HDD's?

this was an irrelevant post

Not to the same extent as a PC, and for the same cost. External disks are always more expensive, and theres a limit to how many you can add. PC users can just buy a 1tb SATA disk for about 130 quid or so, and stick it in their PC and that's that. I could probably have about 6 of them if I wanted. It's not the same with a console. PC is by far the best choice if you want to store a lot of stuff.

[Stewart]

although it seems a bit unneeded now, I'll just throw my 2 pence in as I recently made a similiar decision in favour of the PS3. The facts that informed my decision where:
1) PS3 has Blu-ray and I was looking at getting DVD player to take advantage of my new HD TV, so this effectively represented value I could use
2) The PS3's failure rate is much lower. I normally don't have a lot of spare time and travel regularly for business. The hassle of having to sort out warranty repairs and being without a console when I want it is something I factored in as fairly significant to me (others may feel differantly)
3) Games library on the PS3 is much smaller. However, I typically won't play more than a few games a year anyway and I want a console mainly for driving and fighting games. there are enough good games (tekken 5 and motorstorm for example) to satisfy me and enough on the horizon to keep me interested. Big exclusives seem to be getting rarer and rarer these days as well. Further, I own a powerful enough PC and a lot of the XBox360 exclusives often find their way onto that (Gears of War, Mass Effect) eventually (I imagine mainly down to the similiarity of the development enviroment making ports relatively cheap).
***Actually, the smaller games library is kinda good in a way. With less out there, there's less inclination to buy something and then end up not touching it in favour of another game that comes out a few weeks later.... fewer games means I may actually play everything I buy...
4) Online on PS3 doesn't seem as developed, but I have a PC for that and don't really venture online that much anyway. I hardly have enough time to complete the single player most of the time.

anyway - i know the OP has made a decision, but in case anyone else is reading with a similiar query...

Until you tried to argue that the PS3 having a smaller games library and a less developed online service is a good thing, that was a decent post.

Blu-Ray, no RROD, MGS4. Thats the reasons to get a PS3 over a 360.

Lets not get deep, trying to argue that even the bad things are really good things, you just have to look at it in a certain way. Is this Gtech posting on a different account?

[PenguinJim]

I think that rather than posting good PS3 things, he was just stating the factors in his decision - two plus points for the PS3, and two minus points but reasons why they didn't affect him.

[acrobat]

Yeah. I think they've all got pros and cons to the point that nothing is perfect for everyone. One person may want an uber PS3, one person may want a 199 quid Xbox360 with GTA4 included.. one person may want a PC to play Age of Conan or whatever. Everything has its pros and cons, it's just nice that there is some choice finally. I wonder what will need to happen for it to effect the prices of graphics cards... Because as much as I love these fancy new nVidia uber graphics cards, this £400 odd price tag could really do with changing

[Stewart]

I think that rather than posting good PS3 things, he was just stating the factors in his decision - two plus points for the PS3, and two minus points but reasons why they didn't affect him.

But wars have started over less.

[mmh]

Not to the same extent as a PC, and for the same cost. External disks are always more expensive, and theres a limit to how many you can add. PC users can just buy a 1tb SATA disk for about 130 quid or so, and stick it in their PC and that's that. I could probably have about 6 of them if I wanted. It's not the same with a console. PC is by far the best choice if you want to store a lot of stuff.

if you need 6 TB then u need to seriously reconsider ur porn collection

[Stewart]

We are not talking about storing a lot of stuff, we are talking about playing games.

[Blademrk]

Not to the same extent as a PC, and for the same cost. External disks are always more expensive, and theres a limit to how many you can add. PC users can just buy a 1tb SATA disk for about 130 quid or so, and stick it in their PC and that's that. I could probably have about 6 of them if I wanted. It's not the same with a console. PC is by far the best choice if you want to store a lot of stuff.

Except that you can get an XSATA device for the 360 for around £30 which sits between the 360's HDD and the console and allows you to transfer save games (and downloads) over USB to the PC and back effectively giving you as much storage as you want, which makes storage less of an issue.

[acrobat]

True, but at that point you are using an xbox and a PC Which isn't really what I was getting at.

[Blademrk]

ahh, but the PC doesn't have to be a Crysis spec'd PC.

[Lord Midas]

Without reading the whole thread i'd just like to say "XBOX360 FTW"!!

Phew, glad I got that off my chest.

[Nick]

I say drop all this discussion and get a Phantom... it's teh pw0nZ0r!!"111

[j.o.s.h.1408]

dont forget that the 360's build quality is shocking

[merlin2001]

Until you tried to argue that the PS3 having a smaller games library and a less developed online service is a good thing, that was a decent post.

Blu-Ray, no RROD, MGS4. Thats the reasons to get a PS3 over a 360.

Lets not get deep, trying to argue that even the bad things are really good things, you just have to look at it in a certain way. Is this Gtech posting on a different account?

Yeah - the smaller games library being a good thing wasn't really meant to be taken too seriously. Less choice can be a good thing sometimes (let's not get into a debate about whether the increase of choice in the last 20 years has resulted in real improvements in quality of life or just higher consumption rates and lower levels of satisfaction - that one can last all night! - and result in everyone taking part dying of boredom ), but I do wish I had a few more games to select. That said, I still haven't got around to removing the wrapper from Uncharted, so I can't really complain..