I could never decide which was better PS3 or Xbox 360. Both consoles were brilliant with their own set of great games but I guess often multi-platform games were better on Xbox 360 but then certain games had far better sound on PS3 with 7.1 sound which was amazing on my home cinema system and there were a lot more 3D TV and 1080p games on PS3. The Bluray disc meant many PS3 games had fantastic quality 1080p movies where as 360 had reduced sections or much lower resolution due to storage restraints. When the PS3 was properly programmed and all the little cell chips were working you got games like the Resistance series that just seemed to have so much happening on screen that the 360 could never achieve. However multi-platform titles probably 80% of the time had higher and more stable frame rates on Xbox 360 and often better graphics by a small margin. I had both consoles and loved both of them. It seemed like an absolutely fantastic generation of consoles with even the technically weak wii producing some very fine titles too despite being a turbo charged Gamecube.
My PS3 was the PS2 compatble version but the European PS2 compatible model i.e. had the PS2 graphics chip but the Mips CPU was emulated. There were quite a few issues with running PS2 games on it but generally it felt like most would play. I probably spent 20% of my time on PS3 playing PS2 games especially at the beginning.
My thoughts for the PS3/360 era are incredibly positive even though I had quite a lot of reliability issues to deal with, with 360 and it seemed to spend a lot of time in the post. Many seem to claim the PS3 was unreliable too but my original PS2 compatible PS3 is still working and I've never re-applied thermal paste or anything perhaps I should.
I have to say with the next generation the PS4 was by far the superior console to Xbox One. More exclusives and better performing games. An easy win for Playstation at least to me. I can't think of anything that performed better on Xbox One off the top of my head. Obviously later when the Xbox One X came out many games were best on that but a simple PS4 vs Xbox One is a massive win for Playstation.
