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Xbox VS PS3???

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Considering that both have been available for well over 5 years, I think you'll find a myriad of opinions from all corners of the web through some simple Google searching. In the hopes of not being completely unhelpful, I think the 360 is slightly better as a gaming machine and the PS3 is much better as a media center. If all you want is a game console, the 360 is better, although the additional cost of Xbox Live Gold should be factored in. If you're looking for a mixed use machine or something more media friendly, the Blu-ray capabilities of the PS3 make it a no-brainer. You can't really go wrong with either at this point though.
 
Since you started off posting on the PC gaming forum I assume you have a gaming capable PC already.

My opinion as a PC and 360 owner: get a PS3. More exclusives that are actually interesting. If you care about quality, you should mostly play multiplatform games on the PC. And if the console is secondary/tertiary entertainment for you, it seems like a waste to pay for XBox Live whereas PSN is free.

I'm happy with my 360, but I own it mainly to play shoot-em-ups, and PS3 doesn't compete on that front.

Both systems' controllers work with PCs which is nice. Wired controllers are easiest. The 360 wireless ones need additional hardware to connect to PC. PS3 ones work with just Bluetooth and free drivers, and they can also emulate 360 controllers (for the benefit of the growing amount of PC games that are designed for 360 controllers instead of generic game controllers).
 
Pia said:
My opinion as a PC and 360 owner: get a PS3. More exclusives that are actually interesting. If you care about quality, you should mostly play multiplatform games on the PC. And if the console is secondary/tertiary entertainment for you, it seems like a waste to pay for XBox Live whereas PSN is free.
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This is my EXACT situation.

I'm a PC gamer first, so the 360 isn't ideal for me. When I bought it in 2008, it was great, but since then the PS3 has come down in price and gotten a lot more exclusive games. Virtually all Xbox 360 games are also available for PC, but there are a lot of PS3 games that aren't available on any other platform.

Unless you are a hardcore console gamer, it's not worth it to pay for Xbox Live either. It's an extra yearly cost. Worth it if you play lots of 360 games online, but if you only want to play occasionally it's a bad deal. Plus the 360's multimedia capabilities are crippled without Live since you can't use Netflix without it.
 
360, PC then PS3 for me. Used to be PC then ----------------but gaming has dried up for the PC compared to consoles. But if its a crossplatform RPG then its PC first.
 
xbox vs ps3 depends on how much money you wanna spend and what games you like. I do the FPS on the xbox 360 and third person and platformers on the ps3. I like the xbox 360 controleller way better in my hands. But the xbox cost money just to be online.
 
XBox for shooters and whatever XBox only games you like

PS3 for everything else.

Is why I have both :/
 
There's millions of threads on thousands of forums on this. There's an easy litmus test for it.

If you have a capable gaming PC, get a PS3. The 360 doesn't have a lot of exclusives that haven't been ported to PC. Might as well use what you got, and PC allows for modding and enhanced visuals. PC gaming was in the dark for a long time but is now entering a second golden age.

If you don't have a PC, the Xbox has a good selection of shooters and is the best platform for third party games. If you're an online gamer, Xbox Live is still way better than PSN.

If you like the PS3's exclusives, which are some of the highest rated games this generation, it's definitely worth getting. Uncharted and LittleBigPlanet alone are worth spending the money. The PS3 also does double duty as a great 3D capable Bluray player.
 
All you need to know is that Sony takes the time to write out the word "Slim" in it's name while Microsoft is lazy and only writes "S." Based soley on that criteria I'd get the PS3.
 
PC gaming was in the dark for a long time but is now entering a second golden age.
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What very little I could find of actual numbers I see no evidence for this. PC gaming is not much of a growth market compared to consoles and I don't see that changing. Each generation consoles grow in relative market share.

2-3 years old: http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Vi...52-Billion-2009-86-Billion-By-2014-30363.html Shows pretty clear deterioration of market.

There are a thousand or thousands of articles/blogs online about the future of PC gaming and damn near every one of them is simply opinion without any numbers. That's what makes the link I just posted so meaningful. It empirically affirms what many have anecdotally thought, that PC gaming is going to continue to get squeezed. It's superior in many ways technologically, particularly anything that does well with a mouse (RTS, FPS are magnitudes more enjoyable with a mouse than a joystick), but that's the reality.
 
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What very little I could find of actual numbers I see no evidence for this. PC gaming is not much of a growth market compared to consoles and I don't see that changing. Each generation consoles grow in relative market share.
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And yet, the opportunity to profit in that market depends not on market share but the customer base. Which is growing.

I'm not inclined to speculate on where the business is going as a whole, but clearly the PC market is getting some exclusives *and* ports of a lot of console games. Even game "journalists" are starting to pick up on what constitutes a reasonable port and what is a half-assed effort, so I feel in the immediate future devs aren't going to get away with bad quality as easily as they have in the past few years.
 
Let's not turn this into another "PC gaming is dying/no it's not" thread. It's hard to get accurate numbers because more and more PC games are being sold through digital distribution systems; obviously B&M sales are falling but that's the case for almost every industry where online sales have become big.
 
AstroManLuca said:
Let's not turn this into another "PC gaming is dying/no it's not" thread. It's hard to get accurate numbers because more and more PC games are being sold through digital distribution systems; obviously B&M sales are falling but that's the case for almost every industry where online sales have become big.
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this thread should have been locked 5 minutes after it was started. the OP hasn't even come back. it's obviously a troll thread, especially when you could have searched this forum or google for the billion other threads on this same exact subject.
 
purbeast0 said:
this thread should have been locked 5 minutes after it was started. the OP hasn't even come back. it's obviously a troll thread, especially when you could have searched this forum or google for the billion other threads on this same exact subject.
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lol true, I didn't even notice that.

In its defense, it's not really worth pulling up a 4-year-old 360 vs. PS3 thread because the situation has changed a lot since then. But for the past 1-2 years, basically the PS3 is the better option UNLESS you are either a hardcore console multiplayer addict or you MUST have Halo/Forza/Gears.
 
Kabob said:
All you need to know is that Sony takes the time to write out the word "Slim" in it's name while Microsoft is lazy and only writes "S." Based soley on that criteria I'd get the PS3.
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Well the S does not mean slim on the 360, the 360S is no more slim than the original.
 
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