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xbox 360 is better online and has Halo which could possibly be the most fun game to play online which goes hand in hand with the online play. other than that, i heard that ps3 has slightly better graphics and can be used as a blue ray disc player. xbox360 can be used as hd DVD but you have to actually purchase the player for an additional $200. I went with xbox 360 purely for the halo factor though.
Me and my roomates have both and in my opinion you can't go wrong with either. I grew up playing PS and PS2 so I am partial to the PS3....but I been playing alot of FORZA2, FIFA and HALO2 on the 360. PS3 doesn't have as many games yet, but that will be changing alot in the next year. It really is just a matter of preference, XBOX you have to pay for online gaming but they also have alot wider selection of games currently. Either way you are getting an amazing system.
Like Mattyboy said, the PS3 does double as a Blu-Ray player (and those are going for $500-700 and the quality of the movies if you have a large 1080p TV is amazing.)
i'd vote for the 360 if it werent for the absolute HORRID build quality. i cant justify spending $400 on something that has a 50/50 chance of breaking.
and the PS3....well it doesnt have much going for it right now as far as games.
i'd vote for the 360 if it werent for the absolute HORRID build quality. i cant justify spending $400 on something that has a 50/50 chance of breaking.
and the PS3....well it doesnt have much going for it right now as far as games.
Microsoft claims a 30% failure rate, so 50/50 is probably closer.
It should be noted that the 360 is dropping the price of the Elite $80 and the Core/Premium machines $50 to try and counter the PS3 price drop.
Ask this question again in about a year when the PS3 finally has a decent lineup. You can't go wrong with a $499 blu-ray player and a solid lineup of games. Not to mention the build quality of the PS3 vs the 360.
I love my 360 at the moment though. Though I'm hoping that Sony gives me a reason (games) to buy a PS3 soon because I wouldn't mind owning a Blu-Ray player.
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Ask this question again in about a year when the PS3 finally has a decent lineup. You can't go wrong with a $499 blu-ray player and a solid lineup of games. Not to mention the build quality of the PS3 vs the 360.
I love my 360 at the moment though. Though I'm hoping that Sony gives me a reason (games) to buy a PS3 soon because I wouldn't mind owning a Blu-Ray player.
As much as I loved the 360, I won't recommend it again, until the price drops, and the 65nm chips come out. How would you like to buy a 360, and then know that 30% of them will fail within the first 12-18 months?
As much as I loved the 360, I won't recommend it again, until the price drops, and the 65nm chips come out. How would you like to buy a 360, and then know that 30% of them will fail within the first 12-18 months?
It does sound contradicting. If it were only games, the 360 wins in a landslide. Its online capabilities dwarf the PS3s as well. The problem with the 360 is its build quality. A 30% failure rate for electronics is down right absurd. The average consumer electronics failure rate is around 4%.
The 65nm chips are beginning to roll out now, or so I read. The failure rate for the 360's should be greatly reduced, and the price of the 360 will come down at the same time.
I have owned all 3 of the next generation systems, and the 360 and its games are better than the Wii and PS3 combined. The Wii wins the "fun factor" and the PS3 and its Bluray player have done me well.
So, I reluctantly voted for the 360, eventhough its build quality is horrid. I will feel better about my vote in the next couple of months when the better hardware comes out. Until then, I would probably wait to get either, but if I had to choose one over the other, I'd go 360, with a replacement warranty somewhere. (eventhough Microsoft upped their warranty to 3 years because of all the problems)
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