| kjj4t9rdad said: Your points are not very well thought out. 1st, I am a parent and I care about HDD and so does my 8 year old. 2nd, arcade rumored price $199, recharge pack $15, 20 gig add on HD (needed to update the system firmware, PRETTY IMPORTANT!!!) $100 or 512mb memory card(won't let you update system) $50, Wireless adapter $100, HDMI conversion kit $90 that's a total of $454 for memory card or $504 for the HDD and no ability to watch HD movies 40gig PS3 $400 80gig w/MGS4 $500 Your right about the PS3 not coming with an HDMI cord, however the only 360 w/ a HDMI port is the Premier (not very next-gen) If you read the post, I said to get a 360 to do what a PS3 does off the shelf. 3rd, Since I've had my PS3 for over a year and a half, and the PS3 failure rate is below 1%, I don't worry about it breaking after 1 year, in fact I don't worry about it at all. in contrast the 360 has somewhere between 25% & 35% percent failure rate. These include power cord problems, the "ring of death", overheating problems, and it scratches disks. and last, Microsoft still counts the replacement 360's as shipped 360's. So in other words, the 20million sold includes all the returned 360's. Also Microsoft offers a FREE 3 month subscription to LIVE which I do believe includes some sort of free game download. That is a pretty good incentive to at least try it out. It just seems funny that the number of failures is pretty close to the number non-LiVE users. Even if the price is $6/month for LIVE $6 x 12months x 7years = $504 If you need sources: prices are from best buy.com, as far as failure rates, just google it, you will have a multitude of sources confirming my statements You should check it out and decide for yourself
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Don't forget to add in the cost of buying all the amazing games on the xbox 360, oppose to the few the ps3 has. What is it? 14 AAA +90% games now for the xbox, compared to only 5 on the PS3, so that's a 9 game difference x $50 a game = $450.
Wow the 360 costs almost $1500 now!
