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Ps3 Console – An Educated Debate Of Ps3 Vs Xbox 360
To start this all off I’m 26 years old and I was definitely a Sega fan boy in my childhood. However the times have changed. A brief history of the consoles I have owned would be a Nintendo, SNES, Sega Genesis, Sega CD, Sega 32x, Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo 64. Game Boy, Nintendo DS, Playstation, PS3 Console, and now, PS3 Console.
To get straight to the meat and potatoes I dug in up to my navel in all of the resources from fan sights, to manufacturers. From reviews of customers on various websites, to You Tube. I offer for you the truth, unaltered, and fresh never frozen about the definitive console to buy.
First we would have to look at the CURRENT market. NOT 2007! Because the mass majority of consumers, specifically of the Xbox 360 are incessantly arguing the fact that the Xbox 360 has better titles. This is FALSE. The truth is, in 2007 the Xbox did affirmatively have better games. We could site the reasons for this but I’m not trying to debate the past, I am attempting to educate you on current events. Moving on. In this current time I would have to say that the PS3 Console has better titles. Meaning, it has sufficient and some highly acclaimed 1st person shooters, it has exellent 3rd person role playing games (i.e. Drake’s Uncharted, God of War 3. etc.) great fun but not overwhelmingly “kiddish” games (Little Big Planet, Fat Princess,etc.) as well as youth friendly titles (Mini Ninjas, Harry Potter, etc.).
The Xbox 360 also has a plethora of excellent titles, however, the titles mentioned above save Harry Potter are PS3 Console exclusives.When it comes to the Xbox 360, the theme I noticed that went unannounced was 1st PERSON SHOOTER. Yes, in all caps. It could never matter how many they have for the 360 as most are cross platform and come to both concoles. But to only have the redundancy of every new exclusive 360 title being a 1st person shooter is overwhelmingly boring. For this I’d like to site Wal-Mart. Go look for yourself. You’ll see what I mean.
Reliability and power consumption 101: This needs no paragraph. In short, newer 360′s do not fail at nearly the staggering rate of the original consoles from the 2007/2008 era, but they do fail. Microsoft does warranty the product for a full 3 years and they tend to have a 7 business day turnaround for repair. But do you really want to chance that. Say your all ready to go, just bought a new game so you can play online with your buddies and this has been in the works for 2 weeks. You slap in the disc, go to Xbox Live, and BAM! Nope, not not Food Network, Red Ring of Death. Better known as RRoD. Google it on your off day, it’ll take that long to read it all. The PS3 Console “Slim” is a wrist watch in comparison power wise. Meaning no huge “brick” power supply to hide from visitors and small children, and no overwhelming heat generation to make the room smell like Pine-sol or carpet. The fan noise is also absolutely unnoticeable without walking up to the unit, pointing your ear at it and holding your breath.
Bringing me to another point Blur-ray. No, PS3 Console does not take wide benefit of this technology for game play yet, but all one would need to do is compare early PS2 games to the later releases to see how much improved the games are constantly getting as the developers become accustomed to pulling phenomenal graphics and game play from the PS3 Console. Lets examine the difference is when buying a used game or renting, no worries. Say that game you just bought for Xbox Live is going great, you didn’t get the red ring of death and your kickin your buddies butt. Then the 360 starts grinding like late 90′s pop star and presto! You now have a coaster. Have a Coke and a frown anyone? The icing on this treat is that Microsoft WILL NOT REPLACE the disc. And yeah, there’s that toothpaste trick floating around on the web to fix the disc, but honestly. How often must this happen for there to be a well known trick to fix them involving toothpaste?
Media 101: Yes, hands down no competition PS3 Console is a media monster that you children should be afraid of. Google PlayOn. It’s $30.00 and allows you to stream Hulu, NetFlix, Youtube, CBS, CNN, ESPN, and more directly to your PS3 Console. Setup is so easy a caveman could do it (No offense Fred, and Barney) and then if you google PlayOn Plugins you will find plug ins for MTV, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and others with NO subscription fee.
Streaming videos from you pc is too easy. Another $30.00 program called DVD Fab will allow you to convert or rip DVD’s into a format perfect for streaming 100% DVD/Bluray/HD/SD/ED quality videos with “NO STUTTERING”. I recommend using the PS3 Console setting called “PS3 VOB”. It will literally only take approximately 12 minutes to burn a DVD and convert it, or approximately (no kidding here) 2 minutes to convert an existing full length movie to this PS3 Console VOB format. Even less time for TV Show episodes.
Hardware: This one is obvious, the PS3 Console has better hardware.
Warranty: Who cares, when was the last time you had a Sony anything die on you within 5 years, in addition, places like Wal-Mart offer a 3 year warranty that includes device exchange for an additional $19.95 plus tax. Tell that to your buddy when he’s waiting on UPS. If it dies, go back to Wally World, and get a brand new unit. Not a refurb.
Online: Xbox 360 wins this. Xbox Live has more people. But NOT more content. It has more users using headsets but NOT more mature users. Xbox Live, if you’ve never used it, has a ton of people (usually juveniles) shouting explicatives and racial slurs over and over. It’s true, just ask around or Google it. It also isn’t free. Playstation Network is free!
Accessories: While most accessories for the PS3 Console will cost more, this is only because people trade in Xbox’s in poor condition/ out of their warranty all the time. It is highly likely that a Xbox 360 owner will in time buy, another Xbox 360 and thus there is a higher supply of used Xbox accessories keeping the new prices lower to compete with used retailers.
Longevity of brand: If you look at current sales data, it;s not 2007 and the PS3 is outselling the Xbox.
Wrap Up: I wouldn’t trade my PS3 Console for 4 360′s, although I do thing the 360 is a really good console. At the end of the day, it’s my hard earned money, and I want something that does what new electronics all advertise, work, and work right out of the box. In short, The 360is phenominaly good, but the PS3 Console is great. Just my .02.
Happy Shopping.
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