PS3 or XBOX 360?

Question

WHICH ONE SHOULD I GET

Answer 1

360 all they way it has much better games but the downside is that ps3 has free internet but for 360 its $50 for a year which isnt horrible, i would just get the 360 cheaper almost same grphics and much better games for 360

Answer 2

Awe all these loyal fans. Just get what has the games you want , plain and simple.



Otherwise Online fun on both systems, except the ps3 network doesn't have as many foul mouthed 11 year olds trying to talk "tough" like the 360 does especially halo3 ..Sometimes it almost feels like babysitting..



360 has a parent timer now so it shuts itself down uf the kid goes over...well with 360 load times including the time it takes just to get into an online game you get what 15 minutes to play. Wow that's fun



360 is fun but unreliable, Parents don't need to ground their children from it because the 360 is always at microsoft for red ring of death repairs.



Ps3 has better specs and is more reliable. Ps3 Exclusives are huge on 50gig blueray ...360 well 8gig dvds enough said. .

Answer 3

anybody who says the ps3 is better hasnt played da 360. there is a hardly noticable difference in graphics, but the 360 has much much better games, more accessories, detachable hard drive, and if you got the ps3, you would be the only one out of all of your friends that has one cuz all of your friends are on 360. (and ps3 doesnt have halo 3)

Answer 4

360

Answer 5

In my opinion, an Xbox 360 would be the better one. The PS3 is pretty much the same thing as the PS2, as the only new thing is better graphics. Whereas the 360 has not only great graphics, but with incredible games such as Halo 3, Bioshock, The Orange Box, and so on.

Answer 6

Xbox 360 has only First Person Shooters.. THAT'S ALL THEIR GOOD FOR.



I like the Ps3 for a couple of reasons:

Sony actually listens to their consumers..When the Ps3 came out we grumbled it had no Rumble. Now in spring 2008 DUALSHOCK 3, is coming with Rumble and Sixaxis.



Does Microsoft listen to customers? No... Since their Xbox 360 failures 5% of the time (1 out of 20) all they did was extend the warranty to three years...WOW...



Everyone I know is on their second Xbox 360 cause the first one broke.



Xbox 360 hardware woes

Microsoft really hit it out of the park when it came to the Xbox 360's software—consider the slick Dashboard, the persistent Achievements and Gamertags, and the top-notch Xbox Video Marketplace. But the actuall 360 hardware is a disaster: chronically glitchy, prone to overheating, and all too susceptible to the "Red Ring of Death," which signals a critical hardware failure. Indeed, I'm already on my second Xbox 360 in barely a year, and just about every 360 owner I know has had to send their console back to Redmond for repair. In June, Microsoft finally did the right thing and owned up to the shoddy state of its hardware, extending the Xbox 360's warranty to a full three years and taking a $1 billion charge in the process.



Thats hilarious now lets get down to the comparison.



People don't understand..prices JUST THINK

I'm going buy their highest price models..

Playstation 3 is $599 for an 80gig...OK EXPENSIVE WE KNOW

Xbox 360 is $449 for a Elite...



By the year 2009, excluding games, and including Internet fees you would have paid..$600 dollars for your Xbox 360 to use all it features...



To me it's the same price, you can see it anyway you want but it is.



Ah there is a lot of good and bad between both of them. If you are a movie lover and do not want to dish out $200-400 on a HD DVD Player which you will probably need by 2009, then Ps3 is the way to go because the DVD player that's built in it is incredible and next gen. If games are what you want and you want to play online constantly and compete with others all over the world, I would say the Ps3 because it's 100% free online and Xbox 360 is $50 a year for online so you're pretty much paying the difference between the price in about 3 years.



All right lets get down to opinions. When it comes down to technology, I leave it the Asians and not Americans. Windows Vista is a disaster and proves Microsoft makes a lot of mistakes.



Both consoles are buggy because they were rush to the shelves but Xbox 360 failure rate is higher than Ps3. Xbox 360 currently has this thing called 'red ring of death' which means your gaming system is finished unless you send it to Microsoft and they fix it.



If you send it to Microsoft, you have to wait about a month and half to get it back and it could get stolen in the mail. A lot of people aren't trusthworthy.



One good thing I can say about Microsoft is that they are very good at persuading. They pay companies a lot of money to keep games exclusive to their system, games like Gears of War, Bioshock, and Halo. These games make people buy their system but in the long run Sony has good credibility.



Xbox 360 is up in sales but Sony has always been reliable in the years to come. The games and equipment they will dish out in unmatched and Xbox 360 cannot compete.



I can name great upcoming games exclusive for the Ps3 and I can name great games exclusive for the Xbox.



Is the Ps3 worth the money...YES..it is it's worth every penny and its now $400 dollars for a 40 gigabyte version, better than it was a year ago. Although Xbox 360 is cheap in 3 years you will pay more than you did for the Ps3 minus the games.



The new 40gig version is less buggy than the 360 and probably won't have any problems.



When Playstation 2 came out I remember sitting around months on end waiting for a good games then Sony came rushing to shelves with great stuff.



Metal Gear Solid 2 & 3

God of War

Gradius

Manhunt

Devil May Cry series

Grand Theft Auto series



Everytime I finished a game another one came out..



It always been like this, Developers had 2 years to dish out stuff for Xbox 360 and learn it's components. Of course Xbox 360 is going to be everyone favorite now.



But don't count Sony out...they've always pulled the rabbit out the hat. By December of 2008, Ps3 will conquer all once more.



People forgot that Xbox 360 had a FULL YEAR but the Ps3 is still right behind them. A full year so of course Xbox 360 games will be better, of course there is more people online, and of course people will discredit the Ps3.



Sony has never failed when it comes to games. When the Playstation came out (Sony's first system), it blew Nintendo and Dreamcast sales out the water. It took Xbox 2 systems to catch up and get it right and they still haven't.



The Xbox 360 have a 5% failure rate.. That is 1 out of 20. If condoms had a %5 failure rate, the U.S. population would surpass China.



People say Xbox 360 has a mix array of games but their best games top 3 is a First Person Shooter..Thats not a mix array people..



If you're going buy the system on the base of games.. pick up a GameInformer magazine from a Supermarket or game store and just see what games you like. Good luck.

Answer 7

360

Answer 8

360

Answer 9

Obviously the choice ends up being yours but there are a couple of things to know before making the decision.

First thing you should know is that the 360 compared to the PS3 IS NOT cheaper, in the long run, I'll break down the costs in a second.

The second thing you should know is that the 360 has a very high failure rate, over 30% of all xbox 360s end up being shipped to Micorsoft for repairs. Sure they give you a 3 year warranty, but that's because you're going to have to use it. PS3s failure rate is well under 1% at about .02%.

PS3 is going to have exclusives like Metal Gear Solid, Socom, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Awesome game!!!!), Ratchet & Clank, Killzone 2, and many others.

The 360 has the largest currently available library of games, with exclusives like Halo, Bioshock, Mass Affect, and a few others.

PS3 plays blu-ray and games are on blu-ray discs, you may think this doesn't mean much, and current development states that it may not mean much now, but will very soon, in fact one developer recently stated that there was no way to get the game they were working on over to the 360 because of the size of textures and sounds in the game. 360 uses standard DVD discs, 9GB of data available for developers, blu-ray is over 50GB of data space available.



Now for the cost comparison, 360 Pro/Premium console (20GB HDD) $349.99, hi-def gaming, dvd player, large library of games, +$99.99 wi-fi adapter, +$50/yr Xbox Live Gold (required for online play), brings the total for the system alone with what is needed to play online to: $499.98, other options are, +$59.99 wireless headset (if you want wireless, wired comes with the system), +$179.99 HD-DVD player (Xbox 360 games are not available on HD-DVD).

PS3 (80GB HDD): $499.99, wi-fi included, blu-ray player included, hi-def gaming, PSN included/No Charge (required for online play), $24.99 bluetooth headset (if you don't have one for your cell phone, and want wireless). This is also backward compatible (software emulation) with PS2 titles, as well PS1 titles.



PS3 allows you to load a Linux operating system, and use the machine as a computer as well.

Answer 10

360

Answer 11

PS3 it is better than xbox360 and has a better future in games and all of the ps3 explusives r coming in 2008 so go for the ps3 it has better graphics and cd wont damage and it has less problems 360 has red ring of death

Answer 12

X Box has more games but the technology is way behind times, they charge you to go on line and they are prone to freezing up. PS3 has laptop hard drive, WI-Fi and a blu ray player, by next year they will have a lot more games. If you want a game machine that will carry you into the future, stay away from Microsoft.

Added note, The PS3 gets hot, you have to sit it out on a shelf in the open, don't put it in a entertainment center. Buy from a good company and get a extended warranty, if something happens to it , all you have to do is take it back and exchange it. I bought mine at Circuit City. Have had no problems with it.

Answer 13

xbox 360 for sure cause then you can play halo 3!!!! yeah halo. and the xbox has a lot more games then the ps3 and in my opinion its an overall better device. the only big problem with the 360 is the red ring of death, three of the little ring thingies light up red and then your xbox is dead, but microsoft covers that for 3 years and they're pretty fast about it. sony on the other hand is kinda slow on their service and they sometimes won't service the ps3 until you harass them about it. so go with xbox so you won't feel buyers remorse in a month

Answer 14

PS3,



Screw the 360 into the ground with a semi!! I've had 3 now, all crapped out eventually, took 10 months for the last one to go, but I am DONE WITH XBOX!!



So yes, ps3 unless you like looking at a flashing red circle and nothing else. (dead xbox light)

Answer 15

360.

i have 360, all my friends have 360 and therefore im not alone when im online. i had the same question but chose 360 because the online multiplayer is SOOOO much better. 360 trust me. you will love it. the ps3 is a blow up and thats why nobody owns it.

Answer 16

xbox 360- why? Halo 3-enough said.

Answer 17

If you have a hi-def tv PS3, if not XBOX 360.

Answer 18

360.

Answer 19

This is my cut and paste answer. The reason for that is because a tech info is a tech info, you can't beat it (sources below).



PS3 will win the console war, no doubt. Xbox 360 and Wii are so weak from technological point of view, that in couple of years they won't be capable of dealing with serious graphics. GTA IV, for instance, isn't even announced for Wii - this toy won't be able to cope with the game's requirements. Xbox 360 is getting GTA IV, however, the game is going to be released on several DVDs - Xbox 360 owners will have to interrupt gaming process and switch discs (Rockstar complained about this issue). Only PS3 will have it on single BD-DVD.



Let's compare PS3 and XBOX 360:



1). A third of XBOX 360 (33%) are malfunctioning right from the start. PS3 return rate is only around 0.2%. Despite some people say, that new 360 has no breakdown issues - just visit Xbox section of Yahoo answers and see for yourself an amount of complaints.

2). PS3 has 8 (7+1) kernels in Cell processor, Xbox 360 -only 3.

3). PS3 uses advanced tech called Blu-Ray, one disc can store up to 54 gb (in the future - up to 200 gb), Xbox 360 - regular dual layer DVD-9 (8.5GB). It's possible to get HD-DVD (max. - 30GB) for 360, but it'll cost you around 180$, in this case Xbox is going to be MUCH more expensive, than PS3.

4). Calculations per sec - PS3 - 51-billion-dot-product-operati... per second

Xbox 360 - 33.6-billion-dot-product-opera... per second

5). PS3 has full media support - USBs, built-in 4 slots card reader (except 20GB and 40GB versions), ability to use printer and so on.

Xbox 360 has USBs and only 2 memory slots.

6). PS3 supports up to 7 Bluetooth Controllers

Xbox 360 - up to 4 Controllers

7). PS3 - wi-fi included (except 20 gb version)

Xbox 360 - wi-fi will cost you around 100 $

8). Graphics are stronger in PS3, due to RSX chip, that was developed by Nvidia exclusively for PS3. RSX runs on 550 Mhz. It's difficult to compare their graphics chips, because 360 has a video chip with totally different structure and operating memory is divided differently in both consoles. However, PS3 exclusives look better than 360's exclusives.

9). PS3 uses technology from AGEIA company. It does to physics of the game same thing GPU (videocard processor) does to graphics. This thing is on sale for PC(special card). The price is around 350$. There is no such thing in 360.

10). Xbox 360 is widely known for so-called "red ring of death" problem - it gets overheated easily. My PS3 was running for more than 15 hours non-stop with no problems. Sometimes Xbox 360 becomes so overheated, that thermopaste on CPU melts, drips on motherboard and successfully shortcircuits it. That's why in some countries people call Xbox 360 "Coffin 360".

11). Besides all of this, I've seen disassembled Xbox 360 - regular PC architecture - Billy Gates is an uninventive nerd (as usual).

When I saw disassembled PS3 - it was a surprise - smart architecture, good cooling (don't buy external PS3 coolers - they make everything worse - original system is good), etc.

12). In 2008 PS3 will get more than 300 games, including Metal Gear Solid 4, The Agent and other great exclusives. Here is the good link to the future PS3 releases. http://ps3.ign.com/index/release.html......

13). PS3 online is free, Xbox 360 - you have to pay.

14). There were reports, that 360 scratches discs. No reports on that in PS3.

15). The funniest thing, that right now there are no games for PS3, that show full potential of the console. Biggest games weigh only 25 GB (Xbox 360 will need more than 3 discs even for those).

16). On PS3 you can install other OS, such as Linux Yellow Dog, Ubuntu and others. Sony officially lets you do it. There is no such thing in 360.

17). PS3 HDD can be replaced easily with any 2.5" SATA 5400 RPM HDD (used in laptops). 250 GB will cost you around 170$. In 360 you have to buy exclusive HDD, where 20GB will cost you 100$.

18).Sony expects PS3 to stay on the market for, at least, 7-10 years. Also Sony reduces price now. There is a cheaper 40GB version of PS3.

19).Sony constantly upgrades PS3 software (free updates for OS) - you get new functions and improvements.

20). PS3 controller (sixaxis) has a motion control - you move controller - game responds. Wii has it, Xbox 360 - doesn't. PS3 is getting rumble controller (Dualshock 3) in 1st quarter 2008, Japan already has it. On www.ebay.com I saw those controllers on sale 50$ and up (unofficial import)

21).On PS3 you can help sick people by running Folding Home project. Wii and Xbox 360 didn't even think about it.

22).New 40GB is 399$ or 399 euro (depends on the region) - it has no backwards compatibility with PS2 games, has 2 USBs instead of 4, no built-in card reader, but it's the same PS3, strong, reliable, less noisy, different cooling system. The price is friendly.



I didn't mention Wii, because it's so weak, no point to talk about it. Leave it for kindergarten and casual games.



Sources:

www.teamxbox.com

www.kotaku.com

www.qj.net

www.ign.com

www.wikipedia.org

www.newegg.com

www.ps3fanboy.com

http://search.ebay.com/dualshock-3_W0QQ_...

and many other sources.

Answer 20

PS3

Answer 21

PS3

Answer 22

PS3

Answer 23

XBOX perhaps

Answer 24

Ps3 is so much better

Answer 25

360, it has more players online and microsoft > sony.

Answer 26

ps3 my husband tells me its the best game system.

Answer 27

X box! the graphix r killin! or u could choose the ps3 its...........................alright.