bugrimmar you are right in your observation.

The difference between Xbox and PS2 was bigger, but no one cared. In this gen the 10% performance difference between the PS3 and X360 has been made into a huge thing - despite the PS3 launching a whole year later!

Sony really succeeded in their marketing of the Cell. Unfortunately. I don't like this mythos.

^also, despite most games performing better on the 360. i daresay that this myth is what is keeping the PS3 afloat: i.e., people saving up to buy a "premium" console coz they don't know any better.

Ps3's tech is old compared to the high end pc's we have now...(Alienware, babe).

But compared to the average pc's out there, I think the PS3 wins.

This should not come as a surprise. Sony'd product reputation plus what they got people to believe last gen is astounding. A lot of people thought the PS2 was the strongest based on Sony's epic PR and their obvious strong position.

Sony's chip can fly a missile!!!!

Damn, these responses shoulda shut you up, bugrimmar.  Instead you discounted them and here we are.

Only thing I'll add is that IF Sony these days says "way beyond anything on the market", if they mean PCs too, that would be false unless one takes into account price vs all the features, for I don't think you can get a gaming machine w/ blu-ray for the price of a PS3.  If they say "way beyond anything on the market" referring to 360 and Wii, well, even if Cell/RSX don't themselves qualify vs the CPU/GPU combo of 360, I think PS3's suite of features, taken together, arguably can.

Microsoft DID play up their performance advantage w/ Xbox, which in terms of marketing they had every right to do.  "No one cared", slimebeast, in the sense that PS2 still sold gangbusters, and here one could say that "no one cares" b/c even if PS3 is more powerful, at this point it isn't strongly overtaking 360.  It's still at too high a price point to do so.

PS3 exclusives have proven that its better with graphics than the 360.

Metal Gear Solid 4, Killzone 2 and Uncharted are better looking than any 360 exclusive released so far, imo of course.

The PR has worked well... really well. When i showed my dad MGS4 for the first time he was astonished by the graphics and thought the PS3 was the most high-tech thing on the planet. Seriously, anyone of the "casual" gamers ive known who have got there hands on it, or see or hear about what it can do... are amazed.

The thing even helps to cure diseases and illness...

It's not the PR, it's the launch price tag of $599 makes people B.E.L.I.3.V.E.

The PS3 makes video games come to life. PS3 is that powerful. Yesterday a Helghast came out of my TV when I was playing KZ2 and he told me to slaughter all the ISA scums or maybe it was the weed that I was smoking make me thought that.

Metal Gear Solid and KZ2 have the capability to be played on the 360. You're arguing over space, not graphics.