How Many 360 only owners will get the ps3

[Onyxmeth]

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.

The problem with your argument is simple. You're creating the illusion that it's PS3 vs. 360 by comparing a PS3 and PC combo vs. the 360. If you need to maintain two different platforms to cancel out one platform then I do believe that one platform must be doing something right. So it isn't $499 for a PS3 in your argument. Why not add the costs of maintaining a PC for those that aren't able to play current games on it?

Basically what you did was help prove why the 360's gaming library is so adored. It's got a good majority of the PS3's games, it shares a good majority of the PC's best games(including those that are considered to be 360 games like Gears and Mass Effect) and it even shares a few Wii titles that don't seem to get ported to the PS3 for one reason or another.