First of all, I know I'm opening a whole shipment of cans of worms by asking this, but still, bear with me, please.

I've long been a PC gamer at heart, even though I've never had any gaming rig. I'm a casual player, I used to prefer strategy and role playing games, but then recently got into shooters and just love 'em. Although I tend to blow. Big time.

Not so much when playing on a console though. I'm still far from great, but I manage myself usually a whole lot better, god knows why. With all that said, I'm obviously going to get this game on console, the fact that my only PC at the moment is, actually, a MacBook running Win7 over Bootcamp when not running OSX.

However, herein lies my problem. Last console I actually owned was an SNES (no jokes!), and I'm at a loss as to which of the choices offered I should go with. I inquired with a few friends, but since none of them is a shooter fan, their feedback was less then ideal. Currently, they mostly play exclusively RPGs on the PS3, and my questions met with mixed answers, although overall it seems I should go with an XBox..?

Major gripes I heard agains the PS3 were :
- Apparently, Bethesda has been pretty lax at offering PS3 support for some titles. A few of them are pissed that a glaring bug in New Vegas has prevented them from completing the game even though the same bug has been fixed on all other platforms. However, I don't see how this would be Bethesda's fault.
- Not the shooter fanbase, therefore wouldn't be as many players

Against the XBox we have :
- Monthly price on XBox live
- While a new version of the 360 is out, previous one was prone to malfunction. QUality of the new model apparently remains to be seen.

Overall, if I consider simply Brink, it seems I should go with the XBox, but was wondering if I could get some better hindsight on here.

PS : Please don't start any kind of flamewar

You can do a yearly fee instead of a monthly. ^_^

Yes, you have to pay for XBL, but you get what you pay, meaning, although PSN is free, XBL blows it away.

The new 360 slim got a bunch of improvements
- redesigned to help with overheating
- smaller
- really quiet
- internal wifi

I own a 360, and I prefer it offer PS3, mainly for the online and I hate the PS3 controllers.

As far as games go, the only thing PS3 offers is free online (that isn't that good)
- perhaps slightly better graphics
- and if you prefer the controller, it has that.

The biggest reason to buy a PS3 is for the blu-ray player.

The newer 360 has a bigger installed hard drive too, plus it doesn't seem like this game is getting a lot of hype on the PS3 :confused:

Xbox 360 for sure,

id do the yearly thing as well, $60 for 13 months, sometimes they add an extra month if u get a 12 month.
also an overall better online experience with party systems, and xbox does receive better support for its games.

id go with xbox for sure

The only games that seem to get any hype on PS3, are PS3 exclusives.

Ps3 imo is better then xbox in general

And this topic is going to cause a console war lol

Anyways ps3 is more advanced then xbox (it did come out after 360 did)
And there are alot of players, its not lacking people playing on either console, and ps3 is free but i still dont know whats so great about XBL, my cousin had it and it didnt play any diffrent from ps3 and didnt feel any faster, xbox does have better contoers tho, i like there feel better and there more comfortable but after playing ps3 for awhile you dont notice it at all , ps3 controlers do have a built in charger with a charger that you connect to the ps3 and your contoller and you can play while charging.

Ps3 also has blue ray whichs gives ps3 games more room onthe cd which means more content, and blue ray movies on ps3, also imo ps3 has better exclusives, i dislike halo but i did enjoy playing about of gears of war but its not really somthing i would get a xbox over.

Ps3's free online is a better choice for me since u dont play any games that i need to pay regulary so iwont do that for a consoles onine.


Just to sum it up ps3 is cheaper but some people think its online us crappy
Xbox is expensive but has a better experience (?)

Let the console wars begin!

It typically does not mean more content, unless it is a PS3 exclusive. If it is a game coming out for both systems, they are both going to have the same amount of content - PS3 just might have better graphics, since it can fit higher res textures/models on the disk.

I've heard that they're making a better kind of PSN, but it will cost money? :ermm:

True, xbox and pc are holding blue ray back
Also i heard future consoles might be all downloading only instead of buying disks which will give more room for games




I have not heard of such a thing but they would most likley not make you pay for it.

Those consoles better have big hard drives, it takes up enough room as it is to DL a game onto the 360 for a game to run smoother. :confused:

My ps3 has alot of memory so downloading is not a problem, they said they would remove the blue ray from the ps3 and add an additional hard drive or somthing like that to increase its memory, they will probably do this for xbox if there also going to be a download console. Personally i rather have disks.

Yeah I have a lot of memory too, it still takes quite a bit. Like you though I would prefer disks. :glare:

Really, it's just xbox, since PC's can play Blu-Ray.


My friend and I were talking about how the next systems should handle storage for games, and we both agreed, cd/dvd are out of date.
We came to the conclusion that games should be stored on something like a flash drive or a removable HD. You could have a library of games on one, tiny device. You could purchase games through download, but they would need to be offered at retail stores, for people without internet. If the next systems were to still use disk media, I suggested 2 things.

1 - games comes with a code you can enter, as proof that you own the game, so when you install it to a console, you do not need the disk to play it.
2 - consoles have a multi-disk changer built into them, so they hold more than 1 game at a time, for easy switching between games.

Hopefully it won't be a special flash drive or special HD because those might be expensive than normal ones, but maybe the specials will carry more memory. :sweat:

I would assume it would be included in the price of the console.

Yeah they might include one, but I'm talking about when you run out memory for that one. I know if they were to include one it would be relatively huge, but there are some people that would fill it up pretty quickly. :ermm:

I have ALOTof memory left could porobably put at least half my games on my ps3's memory.

I have 55 games soon to be 56 when brink is out yay.

Yeah, but would you want to spend X amount of money on another HD/Flash Drive to carry more games. So you say it could carry at least half your games so say you have Brink which makes 56 games half of that is 28 so that new HD/Flash Drive could be around $30. Now 28 games is a lot for $30, but what about extra content (ie. DLC's) how would that fit in? So counting DLC's with your 28 games might cut a few games out. So now throughout your gaming "life " you will be spending $60 or less for games, $10 to $15 for DLC's, and that extra $30 for something to store your games in. So, depending on your income, this might be very expensive. Oh, say you were going to buy a game and you brought exact change and everything. You buy it and get home and turns out you need to buy another HD/FD, now that's dissapointing. Again, depending on income, it might take you a while to get $30, especially for younger gamers. So you might have to wait a while before playing the game. If some of my keys were working then this reply would have been faster. lol :tongue:

If you bought it at the store, why would you need to put it on the HD? Just play it. The way I was thinking, is that you would bring your device to the store, and when you buy games, the clerk or store employee transfers it to the device.

Ive been using my ps3 and phone to reply, to lazy to use my computer lol, anyways what you said is probably the reason ps4 isnt out. They got to get past these problems or else most people wouldnt want to buy it.

With the idea that you have to use a code to put into your hard drive and it states that you own it like you posted earlier. Sorry if I didn't make it clear. lol :turned:

The code was just so you could install and play without the disk, not to play it in general.

Oh haha well I'm talking about if they took out disks from games and made it where you had to DL or buy a code of some sort

I've enjoyed the PS3 far more than the Xbox, but it should be your preference over others.

Anyways I prefer the use of my PC for shooters, as use of the mouse pretty much blows console accuracy out of the water, which leads to normally above average gameplay.