PS3 V XBox 360. What console should you buy?

[Garcian Smith]

naraku2099 said:

Garcian Smith said:
360, definitely.

Cheaper, better games, better versions of cross-platform titles, better downloadable content and downloadable games, better back-compat unless you buy the $500 PS3.

The only reasons to buy a PS3 are if you REALLY want Blu-Ray or if you're a hard-core MGS or Final Fantasy fan.

I disagree with most of your statements, and I'll tell you why. First off, Xbox360 games aren't cheaper. Go look in a store, most new Xbox360 games are $59.99, most new PS3 games are $59.99. How is that cheaper, again? Secondly, I'll give you that alot of Xbox360 versions of Multiplatform games are better, but that's because developers are developing for 360 first and porting them to PS3. As for Downloadable content and games, I honestly don't know. Although I have read that 360's Oblivion has downloadable content other than the Shivering Isles Expansion, so I guess I'll just give you that. As for the backwards compatability, it's true 360 has it better than the 40 GB PS3. Of course there's still 3 versions of PS3 that have better back compatability than any 360. And as for your Final Fantasy and MGS comment, that's a shallow statement. Sure they're popular games, but you sound like you're trying to say that's all PS3 has. PS3 has tons of fantastic games that Xbox360 has. The one system that's missing out on truckloads of Mulitplatform games is Wii. Not to mention PS3 doesn't come with the various problems that lots of Xbox360s do, such as the Red Ring of Death, Elites scratching discs so bad they can't be played, overheating and crashing in the middle of games. I've seen many of these problems first hand, I've played Gears of War and had a friend's less than 1 year old 360 crash less than five minutes after turning it on. These are problems that don't plague the PS3 like they do the 360, and that's why I disagree. Also, some people say they've been through several PS3s. I believe it. Nothing's perfect, but at least less than 1% of PS3s are defective as opposed to Xbox360's shameful 33%.

The console itself is cheaper, so that makes it, you know, cheaper.

Regardless of the reasons behind the porting problems, the fact still remains that the 360 is getting the better versions of multiplatform titles.

Truly backwards compatible PS3s are no longer sold, so the fact that Emotion Engine-equipped PS3s were sold at one point is sort of moot.

360s no longer have technical problems, either. The RRoD issue was fixed in the HDMI models, the disc-scratching issue I've never even heard of, and the only way your 360 will overheat is if you put it some place with poor air ventilation. Mine's sitting on a wire-frame rack right now, and I've never had any problems with it.