It is perfectly fine to play games on both systems without console bashing. Each console has their own good and bad games. Defending your favorite console really won’t matter when you think back on the energy wasted to spout endless arguments.

Every console has it’s strong points. there is no need to get all mad and knock a console that you do not have. but, I am really not one to talk, I own both the 360 and the PS3.

P.S.
When I say “every console” the Wii is not included
in that statement. I think that the Wii is more aligned to the Leapfrog or Vtec gaming systems than the 360 and PS3.

Do you for some reason think that Blu-ray discs are the only source for High Def movies?

The Xbox marketplace has HD movies available, plus the new Netflix service that came with the NXE update provides streaming HD movies (Not in UK/Europe though…GRRR)

And even if you did buy the now redundant HD-DVD Drive, it still supports Full HD movies.

So please refrain from calling me a “dumb ass” while the shoe is clearly on the other foot my dear friend.

1)You can’t count.
2)Both consoles produce full HD output for games and movies.

So you admitt you were wrong about it not being to play Divx?

(it does work through a usb pen drive or dvd-r/rw aswell, been doing it for years to watch movies)

Being online won’t be a big deal for most people because you can still have a silver membership to get on most xbox live services, and if you don’t go online at all with a 360 then there’s no point having one, and you should get a PS3.

Also ALL Versions of the 360 have HDMI as of a considerable amount of time ago, NOT just the Elite.

@John Landis
Thats typical Microsoft (just look at “Windows Genuine Advantage”)

Honestly, and by this I mean no offence to our stars and stripes friends, but it seems to be the American way to put a restriction on things like this. I’m actually suprised they haven’t put a sensor on the Message system with the NXE update (which I’m quite enjoying right now)

Not taking sides here, just trying to get the facts straight on that one.

The problem is that it is like to go play a “treasure hunt”, because you don’t know what CPU/GPU pair you are getting until you are at home and you can check the SKU, the PSU sticker and so on.

With the PS3? You just go into a shop and buy any non-bundled 80GB console and you can be sure that you have the cpu/gpu of the smallest size and with the lowest power consumption/heat generation.

True, so far the best games are on the 360 but my first xbox360 already died and I had an elite for a while that died too… So I’m planning to have it replaced, sell everything and buy a PS3 with the same games.

Painful but probably safer in the long run.

HDMI = 1080p
Component = 1080p

Did you ever tryed it?

Or you just dont have TV Full HD compatible?

1)You made two different sections about the same point, you fool. The browser is a pathetic afterthought. Unless its given full functionality for plugins and extensions, then it isn’t a real browser, its nothing but a under-developed beskpoke application aimed at being able to add more bullsh*t to paper for advertising.

I dont see how anyone could think that reducing the functionality of what something is meant to be, then adding it to a platform is it not suited towards, can possibly be added fuctionality.

Its adding two lesser parts together, to get something less than the idea that it began with.

It’s like changing 0.5 + 0.5
to
0.5 x 0.5

2)The reason Xbox didnt originally have HDMI is because at the time of development HDMI was not a standardised technology, and if you are old enough to remember all the way back to 2005 there wasn’t alot of televisions or monitors that supported HDMI making it a risky technology to invest in. It was also the same for 1080p (which was available in a dashboard update long before HDMI was encorporated into the newer console batches).

Plus just check out any comparisions of 360 screenshots and PS3 screenshots (without television adjustment), it’s funny which consoles contrast and colour are more asthetically pleasing (xbox 360). So where does your magnificent HDMI 1.3a “deep Colour” come into play there? No point having that “extra” technology if ends up laying dormant in the machine.

3)PS3 + Blu-ray. BOTH SONY products. Do you honestly think that Sony wouldnt have used the new PS3 as a marketing tool for their new technology: Blu-Ray?

Why do you think blu-ray was even this successful?

P.S. The PS3 IS Blu-ray future proof (Only for as far as firmware goes).

It is NOT HDMI future proof.

What happens when HDMI 1.4 requires a hardware update? Then your pathetic claim to “future proof” means absolutely Jack sh*t.

4)”Again I know you will try to think of something to defend against this but dont waste yout time telling ppl you dont need it and stuffs like that, you dont doesnt mean others are the same. And its always good to have more than less. With all these stuffs its just means that the system is indeed build with future proof in mine”

Honestly, that shows how mature you are and by saying that you only enouraged my response. If your that afraid of someone proving you wrong (I don’t claim I have seeing as most of this is opinion) then feel free to remove yourself from whichever browser/under-developed beskpoke application you are viewing this website from.

There might be a problem with knowledge by the employees. I see that as very possible because the average retail employee does not make enough money to own more than one console, and if they are a “hardcore” gamer then the obvious choice is the 360 because you can get all the best games (which are multi-platform) at a lower price, plus the microsoft exclusives that their mutually poor friends will be playing.

Please John, don’t bother ranting in your unedited fashion just because you feel attacked for owning an expensive piece of equipment. It’s great that you shelled out the extra bucks for the console you wanted, but don’t be “blind” to the fact that you are in the minority in this generation, and if you really want to pick a winner, you should buy a wii.

And plus lets all keep in mind that the PS3 is the only conbsole this generation that hasnt been hacked thanks to that niftly optical disc they have.

Being a 360 fan myself i love my console but being a 360 owner is an expensive hobby buying the accesories is where MS profits the most.. does the HDD ring any bells?

And what sucks the most i have a full HD 1080p console but i have the 1st genration xbox 360 which we all know didnt come with the hdmi output now isnt that grand lol just stick to 1080i for now

But all and all still a good … wait GREAT console. I would love to own a PS3 but just dont see why i should at this moment