Help me decide between 360 and ps3

[Shar]

Get whatever your friends have got, if none of em have any then get an xbox cause its cheaper, sorted.

This (but ps3's are better imo!)
I'd personally get a PS3, good for COD, assasins creed and GTA and need for speed(my brother has all of them)
And playstation move is also cool if you get it!

[redtom]

This (but ps3's are better imo!)
I'd personally get a PS3, good for COD, assasins creed and GTA and need for speed(my brother has all of them)
And playstation move is also cool if you get it!

A 360 also has all of them games, and kinect instead of move.

[Conservative,]

Jin can I add you when you get online?

[dbgtz]

A 360 also has all of them games, and kinect instead of move.

I honestly doubt he's interested in kinect or move.
But in terms of the games he listed, assassins creed will be better on ps3 cos of the free dlc missions But then cod has the temp dlc for xbox, but its not much of a wait I guess.

[beth]

hi i'm jin and i have more money than sense.

[AgnesIO]

Just read all the thread, I know you made a decision - but time for my two cents.

I will be getting a PS3 after trying to decide myself. To start, I prefer Xbox controllers. The bulky design is really good to hold - so yes I can see the positive aspects to both consoles.

People always rip the PS3 online apart but it HAS improved, and it isn't that bad anyway.. party chat would be great - so if you want that I guess the xbox would be better for you.

I personally decided to get the PS3 as it is far better suited for media playback - for me that was my final decision. Media is essential for me. I heard on xbox you can listen to music, while playing the game. Would be a quality feature to have - but to be honest, I doubt I would use it much. When I game I think the ingame sound is one of the important aspects.

People argue that if you want to be on a budget go for an xbox. I do not understand this as once you have bought a 250gb xbox with xbl you might as well of bought a 320gb PS3!

Finally, I think the PS3 is VERY slightly better, and it is better for the future.

It is a hard choice to make, and the truth is they are both quality consoles.

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Anyway, enjoy BOTH of them haha

[Neil]

I think the problem the xbox has media wise is the fact it can't play blu-ray, but for me that's not a problem because I honestly couldn't care less about having a perfect picture, as long as it's a good enough standard to watch then I'm not fussed, I feel it's easier to use an xbox to stream videos, easier to use the menu during a film as well, although the PS3 does have the ability to move to any point of a film instantly with the on-screen mouse, when it comes to picture the PS3 is better and not because it plays 1080i or whatever it does, but because it uses far more codecs and works a lot faster than the xbox does when streaming from a PC, but actually streaming from a PC is FAR easier on the xbox, it took quite a bit of setting up for my PS3 to connect to my PC while my xbox was simply just allowing it on WMP.

Games wise I still believe the xbox has the upper hand, the PS3 has some exclusives that are worth picking up, LBP, GT5 and God of War but other than that I personally see nothing of interest, a good percentage of multiplatform games were made on the xbox and ported to the PS3, it doesn't always matter, sometimes there is no difference but in a few cases it is extremely obvious.

In terms of controller, the xbox just wins, it feels like the controller was designed with racing and first person shooters in mind, I'm not sure what they were thinking when the PS3 controller was designed but that's the biggest flaw as far as I'm concerned.

Xbox live is still better than PSN, of course PSN is free but the argument still stands, you get your moneys worth with the xbox, PSN will only give the best offers to PSN+ users, as far as I'm aware the xbox allows even silver members to use deal of the week and such, which is a benefit if you prefer single player games but want the extra content and such and don't want to spend extra on gold membership.

I personally believe the xbox is a better choice, it's good value for money a the end of the day, but if you don't want to pay for xbox live then you can get all the big online games on the PS3 anyway, excluding Halo and Gears of War of course.

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Obviously I know the OP has decided with a PS3 but I felt like putting my views out there.

[AgnesIO]

Slightly one sided lol

Xbox doesn't have as bigger benefits as it did. The PS3 is catching up a lot - and the reason games are ported from xbox is because the graphics are not as good as those on the PS3. The PS3 has better capabilities.

Agree with you on the controllers - the PS3 ones are not bad, although I prefer xbox ones.

The xbox and PS3 price difference is filling in fast, so both consoles are great value for money.

[Neil]

Xbox doesn't have as bigger benefits as it did. The PS3 is catching up a lot - and the reason games are ported from xbox is because the graphics are not as good as those on the PS3. The PS3 has better capabilities..

I never said the PS3 couldn't perform as well as the Xbox? I know it can do better, it has shown that with GT5 alone.

And that isn't the reason at all, for at least 2 years after the PS3 launched third-party developers wouldn't develop for the PS3 then port to the xbox because the xbox was familiar, the way they have to develop PS3 games is slightly more confusing and publishers like EA, Activision and Ubisoft want to push out lots of games every year, meaning it makes more sense to develop on the easier console, it has NOTHING to do with the fact the PS3 can handle games better, publishers just wanted to push out large amounts of games with little delay, this has changed more recently as I believe L.A. Noire is being developed for PS3 and ported to the xbox, as well as a game that was released a while ago but I don't actually remember what that was.

Some examples of how developers struggled with trying to port games to the PS3 are Bayonetta, I haven't experienced first hand but apparently the PS3 version is so bad it's barely playable, but this could of been resolved by a patch, The Orange Box was quite famously terrible, to the point Valve refused to release games on it until more recently, hence why you can't get L4D 1 or 2 on it and GTA4 was an awful port, PS3 fanboys will say otherwise but I played both versions at launch and the PS3 one had some weird blurring problem and far more pop-in than on the xbox, if it was down to the power of a console, every PS3 port would naturally be better if they worked on it a little after porting.

[Firehorse]

Just read all the thread, I know you made a decision - but time for my two cents.

I will be getting a PS3 after trying to decide myself. To start, I prefer Xbox controllers. The bulky design is really good to hold - so yes I can see the positive aspects to both consoles.

People always rip the PS3 online apart but it HAS improved, and it isn't that bad anyway.. party chat would be great - so if you want that I guess the xbox would be better for you.

I personally decided to get the PS3 as it is far better suited for media playback - for me that was my final decision. Media is essential for me. I heard on xbox you can listen to music, while playing the game. Would be a quality feature to have - but to be honest, I doubt I would use it much. When I game I think the ingame sound is one of the important aspects.

People argue that if you want to be on a budget go for an xbox. I do not understand this as once you have bought a 250gb xbox with xbl you might as well of bought a 320gb PS3!

Finally, I think the PS3 is VERY slightly better, and it is better for the future.

It is a hard choice to make, and the truth is they are both quality consoles.

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Anyway, enjoy BOTH of them haha

The thing many people don't know is you CAN play music ingame; just the developer of the game has to decide whether to allow it or not and you'll find most don't want their own sounds being overrun by music. The ps3 is perfectly able to play music whilst ingame. An example of this is Motorstorm Pacific Rift, and the devs confirmed the upcoming apocolypse will also allow it.

I think the problem the xbox has media wise is the fact it can't play blu-ray, but for me that's not a problem because I honestly couldn't care less about having a perfect picture, as long as it's a good enough standard to watch then I'm not fussed, I feel it's easier to use an xbox to stream videos, easier to use the menu during a film as well, although the PS3 does have the ability to move to any point of a film instantly with the on-screen mouse, when it comes to picture the PS3 is better and not because it plays 1080i or whatever it does, but because it uses far more codecs and works a lot faster than the xbox does when streaming from a PC, but actually streaming from a PC is FAR easier on the xbox, it took quite a bit of setting up for my PS3 to connect to my PC while my xbox was simply just allowing it on WMP.

Games wise I still believe the xbox has the upper hand, the PS3 has some exclusives that are worth picking up, LBP, GT5 and God of War but other than that I personally see nothing of interest, a good percentage of multiplatform games were made on the xbox and ported to the PS3, it doesn't always matter, sometimes there is no difference but in a few cases it is extremely obvious.

In terms of controller, the xbox just wins, it feels like the controller was designed with racing and first person shooters in mind, I'm not sure what they were thinking when the PS3 controller was designed but that's the biggest flaw as far as I'm concerned.

Xbox live is still better than PSN, of course PSN is free but the argument still stands, you get your moneys worth with the xbox, PSN will only give the best offers to PSN+ users, as far as I'm aware the xbox allows even silver members to use deal of the week and such, which is a benefit if you prefer single player games but want the extra content and such and don't want to spend extra on gold membership.

I personally believe the xbox is a better choice, it's good value for money a the end of the day, but if you don't want to pay for xbox live then you can get all the big online games on the PS3 anyway, excluding Halo and Gears of War of course.

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Obviously I know the OP has decided with a PS3 but I felt like putting my views out there.

They weren't thinking anything... they designed an elaborate curved controller at the start but then scrapped it before it went on sale. So they went back to the original PS1/PS2 design with a few extra features and wireless function. So technically they didn't redesign the ergonomics whatsoever. Since they did attempt a redesign i'm sure PS4 will have another attempted controller redesign, but imo I think they made a good choice going back to the original design than use the curved one which had some flaws.