So which is better? Microsoft’s Xbox 360 or Sony’s PlayStation 3? There’s only one way to find out… FIGHT!
- Head-to-Heads
A summary of Eurogamer’s technical head-to-head face-off’s of multi-platform titles. - Backwards Compatibility
A personal list of Xbox and PS2 games and how they fare on the 360 and PS3 respectively.
Shawn
/ February 17, 2010PS3 has – Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, Uncharted 2, Killzone 2, Resistance: Fall of Man, Resistance 2, Motorstorm, Motorstorm 2: Pacific Rift, MAG, God of War Collection(GoW1 & GoW2), God of War 3, Final Fantasy XIII Versus, Final Fantasy XIV, Little Big Planet, Uncharted 3(WIP), Killzone 3(WIP), Little Big Planet 2(WIP), Resistance 3 WIP), Motorstorm 3(WIP)
So before you go saying PS3 has no good exclusives think again. PS3, has free online sure, I’m using wireless internet on my PS3 for that past 2 years now and have never had lag issues, even playing MAg with 256 people I never experiance lag. I also like not having to buy an adaptor to get wireless on my console, plus paying for online on the console, since I already pay for my internet.
Israel
/ February 15, 2010My Reasons why I think Xbox 360 is better
Exclusives
- Halo franchise
- Gears of War franchise
- Rare games… Kameo, Banjo, Perfect Dark, Viva Pinata, possible Killer Instincts and Golden Eye
- Fable
- Criminal Origins
- Forza franchise
- Virtual Fighter 5 … (cough) ONLINE! (cough)
- Star Ocean* Stolen Exclusive
- ShadowRun
… I can go on and on… bottom line is we have more exclusives… meaning more games to choose from and more choices increases chances of finding a game you love… even if the critics and masses don’t like it. For me that game was ShadowRun, Prey and some Rare games.. and I’m just barely exploring all the exclusives we have.
Xbox Live
- The ability to make your own games (be a game developer) and sell them on Xbox live
- Connection download speed on DLC/Demos… and MP connection
- Way more demos… good bye gamefly <— this feature canceling out gamefly pretty much paid for my Xbox live
- Cross game chat
- Dashboard looks prettier
- More people own it.. so it reassured me of chances for online communities in MP games
- Patches come sooner in comparison to it's online rival
Cheaper games
- Prices for retail games go down faster in the stores against it's rival…
- Arcade games are offered at 5-20 dollars
- Indie games are offered at 1-5 dollars
It's American
- I'm American and I want to support my country's economy (salutes flag)
Microsoft has shown me that they know how to sell and market their products…
- Early launch … first to punch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69ZIeLJ3vAs
- Focuses on GAMES and online capabilities (MP, Cross game chat, Arcade/Indies)
- Easy console to develop games on… which has made it most developer's choice to make games on… which makes multi-platform games superior in graphics for Xbox 360
- New guy to the console industry and already making Sony and it's PS fight desperately it seems (price cut after price cut, sku after sku, ungrading instead of upgrading [losing Backwards Compatibility and other bells and whistles])… which was formally the king in last gen
- Project Natal
- Has made Xbox live attractive enough to pay for thus they make money off subscribers… while it's competitors give it away.
- They sell games both on PC and Xbox 360… sharing console exclusives sometimes… thus increasing profit with Window live subscribers and taking advantage of PS3 users that say "I'm not missing anything… I'm buying it on PC" and PC gamers. Also PS3 gamers buying them on PC only proofs that PS3 does NOT satisfy you with it's exclusives… then again we can just look at the sales on PS3 exclusives and know this.
Barit
/ January 19, 2010Xbox is slowly falling orginaly the xbox was dominateing but as soon as sony released some games it started to conquer takeing japans sales past the wii its still a little bit behind in north america but xbox isnt in first ethier wii has the cake over here but everyone i no with the exception of 3 people have a ps3 and then they all admit they think the ps3 is a better system but they didnt wana spend the extra 50-100 bucks then i tell em good luck paying for the wifi signal adapter. then they wish they spent the money and thats the main reason xbox has a better connection is more people use the wired connection my firend has the adapter and its about the same.
Asteroix
/ January 22, 2010The wii may be the top in sales, but that doesn’t equate to it being the better console. This article is reviewing which games are better on different platforms. The sales of the wii have nothing to do with the quality of game.
Shift
/ November 19, 2009Its amazing the amount of fanboi-ism with the whole mines better than yours etc.
I own the three consoles, ps3 360 and wii. First up i have to say the wii is like a party console, anyone can pick it up and do alright at it. Its good if you got some ladies over.
Now the ps3 and 360
In my opinion they both look almost the same, some times one more than the other, perhaps the 360 lags abit but nothing major.
Dont get me started on fail rates! 360 has something like 33%, ps3 and wii >1%.
In saying that i have never had any issuse with any of my machines.
Online play there is not alot of difference perhaps the 360 plays smoother online less lag and jumpiness, again very minor.
Other than that you have to pay for xbox live psn is free.
What i like best? I buy the exlusive games i want for that console and with multi platform games i go ps3, just an overall preference.
Also lol @ console preference determining your sexual preference^^…honestly
matt
/ October 5, 2009faggot much ??
this is how it works
ps3 is a movie player that can play games
xbox 360 is a game beast that can play movies
get the point xbox 360 for men
ps3 for kids
Alex
/ January 7, 2010And here is a list of things i have on my ps3 that you don’t get on an xbox:
Blu Ray
Built in Wifi,
Bluetooth,
More advanced GPU,
Better CPU,
Real HD, i mean real,
97% of xbox titles plus loads of titles xbox doesn’t have, halo and gears of war were terrible and every day another copy pops up on ebay,
the ps3 slim is now roughly half the size of a 360,
I don’t have to pay to go on the online service
I can have more than 16 players in an online game, PS Home can handle hundreds in one space,
Less lag
Loads of free downloads,
Compatibility with many other devices,
A stronger PSU and CPU coolers
Remote access with many recent Sony Ericsson phones such as Aino and Satio, PSP and PCs
Now then, if i wanted to play online via wifi for 2 years with an extra wireless controller for a friend on an xbox 360 elite it would cost roughly £416.88,
I can do that, plus all the things above you can’t do, for £229.99
omfg fan boys are gay
/ June 9, 2009all im gunna say is i own all three and i enjoy them both wii for a great family console ps3 for a great entertainment system and 360 for a great online experience all great consoles enough said
omfg fan boys are gay
/ June 9, 2009dunno why i put both and sorry for spamming i meant to say trio
PAT
/ October 15, 2010online financial side-ps3…
got all 3 consoles.
ps move is good, table tennis, re5 gold…kinect looks only dancing.
xbox can be better on multi-platform, really depends on game, but most are better on xbox graphics-wise…-the major one is street fighter iv.
fifa11, nba2k11, army of two (sequel-shanghai) starting to look better on xbox. mirrors edge better on ps3. you need to check out ‘lenseoftruth.com’.
GT5 will be good, but so is forza. socom and ps move may rule…
in summary:
multiplatform games-xbox
ps3 uncharterd2 amazing, free PSN online Multiplayer (id rather some lag which it doesn’t or subjective anyway if its for free).
XBOX Textures are ALOT sharper and anti-aliasing (nb2k11, army of two sequel);
XBOX Hardware-based 1080p upscaling of games(forza3,fifa11) why u see 720p on ps3, and always 1080p on xbox)..forza3 for example is native 720p, and gt5 is native 1080p.
if i couldn’t afford both consoles tho. prob ps3 simply blu ray, exclusives and free MP, i mean the multiplatform games may suffer lightly in most cases, but it’s a small price to pay.
Jethro Bowdine
/ April 22, 2009I have a 60G PS3 and a 60G XBOX360.
The mandatory installs on the PS3 sucked up my hard drive. They didn’t make the games perform any better either.
The games saves and data utility sucked up more HD space also on the PS3.
Downloads take 3 times as long on the PS3.
By the time someone figures out how to “harness the power of the cell processor” on the PS3, Microsoft will be upgrading to a new console.
The PS2 (10 year) life cycle was years longer than the original XBOX; BIG DEAL! I’ll take performance over longevity anytime. Although I was skeptical about MS in the beginning (after being burned with a Jaguar and a Dreamcast), but they made the 360 a success story. Sony lost this round. Too bad.
SUMMARY:
Wii = a glorified Gamecube (5 year life_cycle)
XBOX360 = a glorified XBOX (5 year life_cycle)
PS3 = a glorified DVD player.
Mister Slimm
/ April 22, 2009Don’t forget you can remove mandatory installs for games you no longer play. Go into the Game Data menu (not the Saved Games menu!) and you can delete data you don’t want by pressing Triangle.
YouAreADUMBASS
/ May 11, 2009your summary and facts, Maximum Epic Fail(MEF)
the ps3 is a glorified entertainment system ._.
360 is a faulty computer harddrive in the form of a console
wii, a gamecube? wth, high much?
it’s a compact cd drive in the form of a console that uses motion sensors for gameplay
mandatory as in updates?
those things don’t improve gameplay, wth are you on?
it updates your system to enable new features and fix bugs/glitches in the system
performance over longevity, love to burn cash?
sony will never lose to an amateur in the competition
microsoft only has the money to back them up which doesn’t prove them better
if microsoft was on even financial terms w/ sony, 360 owners would come running w/ their consoles to exchange/pawn/etc. for a ps3
i was told the 360 was too powerful for it to handle the graphics that it overheats and stuff, but a true powerful console can withstand it w/o difficulty not to mention that a powerful console that can’t handle the amazing graphics just makes it a faulty console
seeing as the first time it came out didn’t work so well, it’s not all that powerful nor were the creators smart before releasing it and fixing it later on
if your ps3 has a smaller harddrive, just take the harddrive out, install a new one that 500G(bet you never knew that this was possible, huh? dumbass), reformat the hardware and you have more storage to put all the crap in like the bullshit you just spat out on a spasm
here’s a fun way to think of things, Sony can install other OSes like Windows XP
basically, “Sony runs Microsoft”
Alex
/ January 7, 201060Gb stopped selling ages ago as it was one of the first, plus, your not supposed to keep the mandatory downloads, once they install you delete the downloaded copy