It's my opinion that the Trophy system is better than the achievement system by design. The achievement points can seem a little diluted, 5p here, 15p there. Just seems kind of inflated. The trophy system counts up individual trophy's by quality, bronze to silver to etc. So you can see your results clearly. Not to mention they add up to attribute to an overall gamer level, which Level 18 is more identifying that 358315p. Another great thing is the ability to compare trophys among friends, that's not just comparing totals but individual games against friends. They both do essentially the same thing, but with the trophy system you have better interaction and therefore can be more fun to participate in, which is probably why it seems such a big deal on forums, because trophy's can be analyzed nicely.
Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(
