For non-360 owners only ...

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fastyxx said:
As someone who owns both PS3 and 360, I think there is really not a good reason to own both. So I agree with most of you on here that it's probably best NOT to but a 360 if you already have a PS3.

However, I WILL say that the three big reasons on here to not buy a 360 are pretty bogus:

1. Don't wanna pay for live. Whatever. Sony milks me for $35 a year in other ways (Qore, Home knickknacks, etc.), and Live is totally worth it. If you don't think so, you're not using it, or at least not fully.

2. Loudness. Unless you are playing with the sound really low and with the console right next to you, who notices it? Occasionally in a cutscene or load screen I will notice the noise, but it's really not anything to cry about.

3. Red ring. Had one. It sucked for a little while. If you get a new 360 right now, the odds are good you'll have no issues. So unless you're buying a used one from 2006, get over it.

Both are good consoles. But if you have a PS3 there's no reason to buy a 360. And if you have a 360 there's no reason to buy a PS3. Unless there is an exclusive you just HAVE to play. Like Left 4 Dead or Uncharted, which are both awesome.

 

I agree both are good, but I'd argue with those 'bogus' arguements.

 

1) With 360 you have to pay for live, and while it isn't much it adds up.  With PS3 you don't have to buy anything you don't want too.  Over four years, if you're playing COD4, etc online then with 360 you've added around $160 dollars to the console's cost vs a PS3.  One service is free with optional costs, the other demands a cost, that is a real difference and hardly bogus.  I suspect many people are acting more on principle than because it's a lot of money, but that's their right.

2) Loudness - while the volume of the 360 isn't so bad when playing games, it's awful for watching movies.  I would imagine that when PS3 owners complain about this they are considering this in their thinking, which is fair enough and hardly bogus - the 360 is loud, the PS3 is quieter, who say's you have to consider loud acceptable?

 3) RROD - while I'm sure 360 is now a lot more reliable it wasn't, and without definate statistics many people will, fairly I would argue, view the 360 as still having a higher liklihood of failure than the PS3.  Again, I don't see how this is bogus?  Its a known fact that an association of poor reliability sticks.  In fact MS is lucky, due to demographics of many videogamers the 360 was tarnished a lot less than most other appliances would have been.  In the end it's fair enough people would see the unreliable reputation as a negative.

 

But I do agree both are good consoles, each with plenty of strenghs to outweigh the cons.