360 vs PS3

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.
  1. matt
    October 5, 2009 at 7:27 am | #1

    faggot 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

  2. omfg fan boys are gay
    June 9, 2009 at 12:42 am | #2

    all 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, 2009 at 12:43 am | #3

      dunno why i put both and sorry for spamming i meant to say trio

  3. Jethro Bowdine
    April 22, 2009 at 4:01 am | #4

    I 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.

    • April 22, 2009 at 10:40 am | #5

      Don’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, 2009 at 5:28 am | #6

      your 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”