Buying a console...Xbox or PS3?

[fuser]

I'm not sure. The 360 seems to be the Zombie box with L4D and Dead Rising. Not sure if L4D2 is going to be an exclusive, but it appears that way at present.

I'd say with Gabe's vocal opinions over the PS3, I wouldn't doubt if they didn't bother porting it.

[Rasix]

A non exclusive shooter.  Play it on a goddamn PC.

[Samwise]

My two cents as one who until fairly recently hadn't owned a modern console: the XBox seems like the better pick if you don't do any PC gaming, since a lot of good titles that are primarily PC tend to show up there.  If you do have a PC, then between that and the PS3 you get pretty much all the good games.

Also, it seems like if you're interested in Blu-Ray at all it's a no-brainer.

I also tend to like the PS3's user interface and controllers better, but I think that comes down to personal preference.  

[Cadaverine]

Clearly that solution doesn't work for everyone, and I still sometimes fire up the 360 if I want to just lie down and use the controller for MCE/Netflix/Last.fm.

Netflix now available on PS3, BTW. Although you do have to swap in a disc.

Well, that sinks it then.  The only conceivable thing the 360 had going for it was Netflix. 

[Samwise]

Clearly that solution doesn't work for everyone, and I still sometimes fire up the 360 if I want to just lie down and use the controller for MCE/Netflix/Last.fm.

Netflix now available on PS3, BTW. Although you do have to swap in a disc.

Well, that sinks it then.  The only conceivable thing the 360 had going for it was Netflix.  

Even without the official support, you can use stuff like PlayOn to stream just about anything to your PS3, or other console for that matter.  (With varying levels of success, although it's robust enough that I watch most streaming video on the PS3 from my couch these days.)

[Azazel]

If I could use the 360 controller on the PS3, I'd be very happy.

Why you would want to, I have no idea, but there you are my friend.

Joysticks, for one.

I just got the Tekken 6 deluxe box with the Hori stick along with SF4 and a second stick for my 360. I took awhile to think about which one to get, and make the choice, since the PS3 controller is clearly better for Tekken. I got them on 360 because I already have a bunch of older fighters, so the Joysticks can work for them as well (VF, DoA, SC4).

If I didn't already have a bunch of arcade fighters on 360 already, I'd have gotten them for PS3.  


 - edit - for $55 a pop for those adaptors, I'd probably just get some PS3 sticks for a little more rather than bother with them.

[Vision]

First Post here.
Anyway, there really is no definitive answer, although I've always bought my consoles on the games I've wanted to play, not how many of my friends play a specific one. Therefore your best bet is to look at the exclusives list for each console, pick out the ones you are most interested in playing, and go with that console.
I went with the PS3 and have no regrets.

[Strazos]

I have the 360, and while I don't regret it, I also don't use it a whole lot nowadays. The game I play on it the majority of the time now is NHL 10. So, I'll readily admit that the PS3 has the more-robust hardware.

Just for reference, when I bought my 360, my PC was aging - painfully. If I was making that same console choice now, when I have a fairly new PC that I intend to run with for about the next 5+ years, I'd get a PS3.

[Azazel]

I'd have started a new thread, but I don't think it quite warrants it - so I'll throw it in here.

God of War collection. Out next week in the US. I certainly planned to pick it up when it comes out here.

except...

SCEE are currently looking into options to bring the port to PS3 consumers in Europe, however, it will not be possible to release it in 2009.

http://www.vg247.com/2009/09/02/no-god-of-war-remakes-for-europe-in-2009/

So I guess I'll import it myself in 2 or 3 weeks. But really. WTF are they thinking? Do they not like money?

[Margalis]

I somewhat regret buying a 360 over a PS3. There's very little I want to play on 360 that I can't play on PC. The online community for fighting games is probably better and that swayed my decision but beyond that I dunno...bunch of FPS games I have little interest in. My Wii gets far more use than my 360., and lately my PC has as well.

Dead Rising is the one non-fighting game I wanted when I picked it up but I ended up only making it about halfway through the game before getting fed up at the moronic AI characters constantly getting stuck on a shrub just outside the warehouse door and quit forever.

It was fun playing NHL09 with some of the people here but that was more of a passing fad for me, not a big hockey fan. For someone like me who is not into brotastic army dude shooting other army dudes in the face games PS3 does have a more compelling set of exclusives.

[Mrbloodworth]

If I could use the 360 controller on the PS3, I'd be very happy.

Why you would want to, I have no idea, but there you are my friend.

Joysticks, for one.

I just got the Tekken 6 deluxe box with the Hori stick along with SF4 and a second stick for my 360. I took awhile to think about which one to get, and make the choice, since the PS3 controller is clearly better for Tekken. I got them on 360 because I already have a bunch of older fighters, so the Joysticks can work for them as well (VF, DoA, SC4).

If I didn't already have a bunch of arcade fighters on 360 already, I'd have gotten them for PS3.  


 - edit - for $55 a pop for those adaptors, I'd probably just get some PS3 sticks for a little more rather than bother with them.

There is like, a ton of joysticks for the PS3. There is also this Hori stick you mention. Its amazing what having USB connections will enable.

[Hoax]

For someone like me who is not into brotastic army dude shooting other army dudes in the face games PS3 does have a more compelling set of exclusives.

A thousand times this.

[Trippy]

For someone like me who is not into brotastic army dude shooting other army dudes in the face games PS3 does have a more compelling set of exclusives.

A thousand times this.

The PS3 has its share of such games (Killzone 2, Resistance 1 & 2, the upcoming MAG, etc.) but it doesn't have anything as popular as the Halo franchise in that genre.

[Azazel]

I somewhat regret buying a 360 over a PS3. There's very little I want to play on 360 that I can't play on PC. The online community for fighting games is probably better and that swayed my decision but beyond that I dunno...bunch of FPS games I have little interest in. My Wii gets far more use than my 360., and lately my PC has as well.

Dead Rising is the one non-fighting game I wanted when I picked it up but I ended up only making it about halfway through the game before getting fed up at the moronic AI characters constantly getting stuck on a shrub just outside the warehouse door and quit forever.

It was fun playing NHL09 with some of the people here but that was more of a passing fad for me, not a big hockey fan. For someone like me who is not into brotastic army dude shooting other army dudes in the face games PS3 does have a more compelling set of exclusives.

Aren't you a cloaked redname these days anyway? You should have one anyway. Go buy a PS3.


Mrbloodworth. Please read the post you replied to again, but more slowly. You appear to have totally misunderstood what I was talking about including the context.

[Morat20]

I got a 360 because:

1) My PC is aging, and I can't be botherd to replace it. I got sick of that game for awhile.
2) The PS3 was more expensive (at the time) and fuck them if they won't play PS2 games. I leave my PS2 hooked up, so I can play games I like. (The lack of PS2 support really killed any chance of getting it.)
3) Two of my friends had 360s, both had aging PCs (one just uses a 4 year old laptop. I think it runs on clockwork), and we all wanted to occasionally play games together despite living way the fuck too far apart.

So at the time, 360, Halo 3, and downloaded shit like Worms or Carcassone was pretty much exactly what we needed.

Right now? It'd be a tougher choice.

[stray]

For someone like me who is not into brotastic army dude shooting other army dudes in the face games PS3 does have a more compelling set of exclusives.

A thousand times this.

OTOH, Snake is the ultimate in brotastic. Mustache > Space Marine.

I'd say Kratos is ultimate brotastic too, but that's a different type of army dude.  

[fnddf2]

I had to make this same decision in the past.  I chose the PS3 mainly due to fear of red ring.

On the one hand, I admit I dislike Microsoft more than Sony.  I also decided that I would accept the lack of games that would be available for the PS3, since the gaming library was not as robust earlier.  Lately though, there seem to be some good games coming to the PS3 so this point seems to be moot.

For me, the hardware failure issue is more important that any exclusivity of games or Blu-Ray or anything like that.  But I really hate it when things break, and I loathe sending anything back to the manufacturer.

[Sheepherder]

The situation is rendered less complicated by the fact that Halo 3 is pretty mediocre in terms of where they series has already been.  Except now the story mode have a batshit crazy hologram having a monologue inside your head every five minutes, preventing you from, you know, breaking stuff.  Which apparently is the appeal of this iteration.

Fuck that.