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Domicinator on 15 September 2008
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EdGuila said:

I really don't get people. A XBox 360, plus control chargers and XBox Live pushes the price of a 360 to the price of a PS3. Add WiFi and you've surpassed the price of the PS3 by almost $100. %70 of the games on the 360 are also on the PS3 and the exclusives(which aren't exclusive, MS fanboys just call it that) can be played on a PC. PS3 exclusives(which number more than the 360's) can't be played on PC. It's clearly obvious which is the better buy, in the end it's like the PS3 saves you the $100 and more or less throws BD in for free once you add the over priced accessories that the 360 lacks out of the box.

I could pay $499 for my PS3 with a whopping 80GB, BD, charger, WiFi, PSN membership, backwards compatibility to 2000 games and just play Gears, Viva Pinata, Mass Effect, BioShock and all the other fake-360 exclusives(sans Halo) on the thing I'm currently typing on, my PC without having to buy a second console and play for 9 years.

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I could of paid $399 for a 360, a tiny 20GB, with no BD, no charger, no WiFi, no gold Live membership, backwards compatibility that plays only a mere %40 of a library of just 500 games and then have to fork out another $225 for WiFi, Live and a charger and then to enjoy PS3 exclusives fork out another $499 because PS3 exclusives are more numerous and can't be played on PC. What are we at....$1125 and still no HD movies or motion sensing and in the end the tiny DVD format they settled with will leave my $625 investment obsolete in 4 years which seems to be a trend for Microsoft's consoles???

$1125 or $499??? I'd rather pay $499 plus save the headaches of having to send it in every 3 months for repairs and the 4 year obsolence that the Xbox brand is known for; PS3 just makes to much sense.  Pay $499 play for 10 years, rather than pay $600 for every 4 year generation that seem to plague XBoxes.  In 10 years I'd have to rebuy the same 4 year cycle for MS 3 times and I'll have to buy $200 worth of accessories.  Over 10 years that's 3 XBox consoles I'd have to buy putting me at $1800.  The PS3 covers me for those 10 years only having to cover $499 of hardware costs.

 

1.  The four year cycle is hardly a trend since there's only been one other Xbox model before the 360. 

2.  The ten year cycle for PS3 does NOT mean that there won't be a PS4 in that time period.  It means that the PS3 will still exist when the PS4 comes out, much like the PS2 still exists with the PS3 out now.

3.  The Xbox 360's partial backwards compatibility beats the PS3's complete and utter LACK of backwards compatibility in current models.  You can't convince people to go out and buy PS3s based on backwards compatibility, since it no longer HAS that feature.

4.  The RRoD has decreased considerably.  Any models made during or after summer of 07 should be fine. I hear it mentioned more by Sony fanboys these days than 360 owners.  Falcon beat the RRoD to a bloody pulp, Jasper should all but completely kill it off.

5.  The PS3 does have some good exclusives.  Unfortunately nobody outside of dorks like us knows what they are.  There doesn't seem to be much that gives the PS3 an identity, and Sony's marketing department is not doing a good job of letting people know about them. 

6.  I used to game on nothing but a PC.  I have built some massive gaming rigs in my time, and I have spent a lot of time playing on them.  This year I got an HDTV and a 360.  It's all the things I like about PC gaming, some of the things I wouldn't have gotten on the PC, and a big HD screen with surround sound.  Plus, I don't have to worry about upgrades, compatibility, framerates, etc.   A lot of people go to consoles from PCs because the PC gaming hobby on the whole is expensive and time consuming outside of the time you spend gaming.

7.  You don't HAVE to have WiFi to play online with the 360.  You don't HAVE to have controller battery packs either.  And the main 360 model is now a 60 GB hard drive, not a 20 GB.  You do have to pay for Xbox Live to play online with your buddies, but in many peoples' opinions, Xbox Live is the superior service, therefore they don't mind paying for it.  Whether you agree with that or not is immaterial.  People are willing to pay it because the Xbox 360 experience is greatly enhanced by having the Gold membership.

8.  I have to go back and reiterate the fact that you are comparing apples to oranges here on the console life cycle.  There WILL be a new Sony console before the PS3 ten year life cycle is up.  The ten year life cycle is a PR trick to make you think that you're getting a lot more for your money.  Sony knows full well that the PS3 will not be the flagship console for ten years.  That's absolutely ridiculous and it would sink them for sure.