xBox or PlayStation ?

[Flow]

Bring your good and bad sides out of those consoles.

I've been using the PS2 all the time, but I'll get a xBox 360 for Christmas. Is the PS3 better than xBox 360 ?

I'm pretty sure that xBox 360 is much better than PS2. Especially the graphics will be better.

I'm gonna buy NBA 2k7 on that and problably a NFL game or something.


But is the the first xBox better than PS2 ? My friend has it and I can't see a big difference out of them.

Playstaion has a better controller stick imo.


And if you guys don't want another argue, you can just say which one of them you have and bring the good sides out of them and why you bought that one.


Flow.

 

[hustler]

Playstation 1 was the best.

 

[Flow]

Guys, help me please - Should I get the xBox 360 or Play Station 3 ?

 

[Premium]

<div class="quote_poster">Flow Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Guys, help me please - Should I get the xBox 360 or Play Station 3 ?</div>

personally I prefer the 360...the live experience is just better. ps3 is just now introducing their version of live. xbox live is now in their 2nd generation and they've added a lot to it. there is just so much you can do with live

that aside i think the ps3 is horribly over priced. its certainly not worth $200 more then the 360

 

[Flow]

<div class="quote_poster">Premium Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">personally I prefer the 360...the live experience is just better. ps3 is just now introducing their version of live. xbox live is now in their 2nd generation and they've added a lot to it. there is just so much you can do with live

that aside i think the ps3 is horribly over priced. its certainly not worth $200 more then the 360</div>I'm not playing a rich boy, but the price isn't a problem right here. But okay then, thank you.

I'll stay at the xBox 360 then.

 

[SpeeJ]

Yeah, you should just check the remote of PS3. It has so bad shape that i wouldn't buy it just because of the remote

I would also prefer xBox, dont know why

 

[Bobcats]

<div class="quote_poster">Flow Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Guys, help me please - Should I get the xBox 360 or Play Station 3 ?</div>

Right now, 360 is the better choice.

 

[Trip]

<div class="quote_poster">SpeeJ Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Yeah, you should just check the remote of PS3. It has so bad shape that i wouldn't buy it just because of the remote

I would also prefer xBox, dont know why

</div>
It's the same design as the PS2 controller, pretty much the best controller ever.

I'd go for the PS3. Their support from game designers are still better and they have a lot of exclusives. One wildcard would be the BluRay discs the PS3 uses. They hold four times the DVD (360 uses that) and if used properly, can be utilized to make games much more feature-laden, and even to improve graphics. In three years, I'll definitely see the PS3 winning out but for now it's a taken that the 360 is a better choice. However, the PS3 has just launched though, so it should rightly suck due to the lack of titles. The 360 was the same.

 

[I-Miss-MJ]

<div class="quote_poster">Premium Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">personally I prefer the 360...the live experience is just better. ps3 is just now introducing their version of live. xbox live is now in their 2nd generation and they've added a lot to it. there is just so much you can do with live

that aside i think the ps3 is horribly over priced. its certainly not worth $200 more then the 360</div>

add in the x-box live fees per month/year or whatever vs the FREE ps3 online service and PS3 is a lot cheaper.

Plus better games will be coming out for it.

 

[NTC]

I've got a PS3 preordered, but I look at it like this, sure its going to cost me AU$999 compared to AU$650 for the XBox, but the PS3 has better specs (the XBox was better than the PS2), it supports BluRay and BluRay players alone cost AU$1,500, it has a free online service and I get 2 controllers and a game of my choice since I preordered it.

I think its money well spent.

I'd say go for the PS3, I just dont find the 360 very appealing for some reason, those controllers look very bulky, and I cant really see much of a difference in graphic quality between the XBox and XBox 360 (I've seen them set up next to each other at the Mall, and I thought I was watching the XBox when it was infact the XBox 360)

 

[44Thrilla]

<div class="quote_poster">I-Miss-MJ Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">add in the x-box live fees per month/year or whatever vs the FREE ps3 online service and PS3 is a lot cheaper.
</div>Xbox Live costs me 5 dollars a month, dude. What are you talking about?

 

[I-Miss-MJ]

<div class="quote_poster">44Thrilla Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Xbox Live costs me 5 dollars a month, dude. What are you talking about?</div>

Well in 4 years you'll be paying more in the long run than a PS3....

 

[Laker_fan]

The X-Box console's are better than the Playstation's but the Playstation always has better games.

 

[I-Miss-MJ]

<div class="quote_poster">Laker_fan Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">The X-Box console's are better than the Playstation's but the Playstation always has better games.</div>

X-Box was better than PS2, but it did come out later.

PS3 and x-box would depend who you ask.

However on choice you decide what games you would most likely play, what games are already out and what games are coming out.

The worst thing you could do is ask someone else what is better.

 

[WildHundreds113]

hey you said that money isnt a problem so just get both consoles

 

[NTC]

<div class="quote_poster">Laker_fan Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">The X-Box console's are better than the Playstation's but the Playstation always has better games.</div>

As I-Miss-MJ said, the XBox was better than the PS2 (I'm an Playstation fan by the way), but I've read that the PS3 has better specs than the XBox 360 has, so essentially, its the better console this time round.

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Playstation 3:</div><div class="quote_post">CPU: Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for edundancy
total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

GPU: RSX @550MHz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines

Sound: Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell-base processing)

Memory:
256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz
256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz

System Bandwidth:
Main RAM 25.6GB/s
VRAM: 22.4GB/s
RSX: 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
SB: 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)

System Floating Point Performance: 2 TFLOPS

Storage: HDD - Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1

I/O: USB: Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)

Memory Stick: standard/Duo, PRO x 1
SD: standard/mini x 1
CompactFlash: (Type I, II) x 1

Communication: Ethernet - 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)

Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11 b/g

Bluetooth: Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)

Controller:
Bluetooth (up to 7)
USB2.0 (wired)
Wi-Fi (PSP)
Network (over IP)

AV Output
Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI: HDMI out x 2
Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
Digital audio DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1

Disc media: CD, PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R,CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD, DualDisc, DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side), PlayStation2 DVD-ROM, PLAYSTATION3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW

Blu-ray Disc: PLAYSTATION3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE</div>

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting XBox 360:</div><div class="quote_post">Hardware Specs:

Custom IBM Power-PC Based CPU

Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
Two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total
VMX-128 vector unit per core; three total
128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance

9 billion dot product operations per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor

500MHz processor
10 MB of embedded DRAM
48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines
Unified shader architecture

Polygon Performance

500 million triangles per second

Pixel Fill Rate

16 gigasamples per second fill rate using 4x MSAA

Shader Performance

48 billion shader operations per second

Memory

512 MB of GDDR3 RAM
700 MHz of DDR
Unified memory architecture

Memory Bandwidth

22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
21.6 GB/s front-side bus

Overall System Floating Point Performance

1 teraflop

Storage

Detachable and upgradeable 20GB hard drive
12x dual-layer DVD-ROM
Memory Unit support starting at 64 MB

I/O

Support for up to four wireless game controllers
Three USB 2.0 ports
Two memory unit slots

Optimized for Online

Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features with broadband service, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, gamer profile for digital identity, and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies, or listening to music
Built-in Ethernet port
Wi-Fi ready: 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g
Video camera ready

Digital Media Support

Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD
Ability to stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras and Windows XP-based PCs
Ability to rip music to the Xbox 360 hard drive
Custom playlists in every game
Built-in Media Center Extender for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Interactive, full-screen 3-D visualizers

High-Definition Game Support

All games supported at 16:9, 720p, and 1080i, anti-aliasing
Standard-definition and high-definition video output supported

Audio

Multi-channel surround sound output
Supports 48KHz 16-bit audio
320 independent decompression channels
32-bit audio processing
Over 256 audio channels

System Orientation

Stands vertically or horizontally

Customizable Face Plates

Interchangeable to personalize the console</div>

 

[Midnight Green]

<div class="quote_poster">SpeeJ Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Yeah, you should just check the remote of PS3. It has so bad shape that i wouldn't buy it just because of the remote

</div>

Isn't it the exact same thing as the PS2?

 

[NTC]

Yeah it is, except it is wireless and has motion sensors like the Nintendo Wii.

 

[playmaker15]

I have a 360 and it's a great console but I'm also saving to get a PS3, I'd wait to get it because the first few shipments always have defects, sort alike then 360 came out. I got mine later on and it's been perfect. The PS3 should be a better overal console and the games are always better for playstation, hopefully have both by March of 07.

 

[M Two One]

I likely won't buy either one since both of them will have the majority of their titles for the PC and since I can afford the upgrades I go with PC. Pending on new consoles, you should really go with the Nintendo Wii.

 

[Pakman]

Xbox was better than PS2 in terms of graphics, being able to save games w/o memory card, load songs on to Xbox, having 4 controller ports to start out with, shape of the controller.

Guys, be serious here, Xbox controllers are better suited for our hands. PS2/PS3 controllers are the size that a 10 year old would like. I personally prefer Xbox controllers by a mile. They're comfortable, but then again... if you're used to holding smaller things ... your preference.

Jk...

I like Xbox controllers better though.

But, I am sure that PS3 will be a step ahead of Xbox 360 in terms of technology that we will use more frequently in the future. If money isn't a problem, get the PS3 ... it has all the BlueRay and stuff. If you'd rather save $200, get Xbox360.

It really depends on what kind of games you like the best, which console carries your favorite games, which controller suits your hands, and well.... if you're going to be using the BlueRay or not. Match your needs.

 

[M Two One]

"Fanboyism" is hilarious.

 

[Char]

Right now, the 360 owns the PS3, IMO. That will most likely change down the road when very special games like Metal Gear Solid 4 come out for the PS3.
Live is a real bargain at $50 a year, for the services it provides. Sony has nothing like Live, although they are trying, but I don't think they ever will touch Microsoft on that aspect.
Also, I would not recommend either a PS3 or 360 until or unless you already have a HD TV of some sort,or a monitor(VGA for 360), because standard tv with 360 looks real grainy, I had the opportunity to play with a SD tv recently and saw how much better it is on HD. For example a popular 360 game, Dead Rising has subtitles that are UNREADABLE no matter what on a SDTV, but crisp clear on a HD.

 

[Ming637]

Bargain? You don't have to pay for PS2 online with an ethernet cable, and c'mon, even the PS2 is beating the 360 in sales this year.

 

[I-Miss-MJ]

<div class="quote_poster">Char Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Right now, the 360 owns the PS3, IMO. </div>

Well considering PS3 just came out, its been 2 months and it isn't even out in Australia/Europe ownage isn't quite the right word.

 

[AA13]

They're both about the same IMO. The graphics are essentially the same. The difference make is the games and which company you like best.