The PS3 is more powerful but that does not determine anything about multiplatformers. I agree with multiplats looking identical, I honestly can't see any difference between a 360 and PS3 version of a game only in certain rare cases have I actually seen a difference and that was Oblivion and Half Life 2. Oblivion looked better on PS3 and Half Life 2 looked better on 360. I say 360 multiplats look better since nearly every reviewer and gamer says it, I don't 100% agree with it. Exclusives, I have never seen a game on 360 that can compare to Uncharted 2 or Killzone 3 in terms of graphical quality. Those games show the PS3 is capable of better graphics.

I've had both since their respective launches and I've always preferred the PlayStation 3 for various reasons.

XMB - It's well-organized and I like the minimalistic approach compared to the 360's slightly more graphic-heavy interface, especially after avatars were introduced.
Blu-ray - I buy all of my movies/shows on the format whenever possible, really nice to have.
DualShock - It might sound odd (I don't really understand it myself), but I don't like the "comfortable" shape to the 360 controller. PlayStation, NES and SNES controllers are among my favorites.
Region free - Not something I use often, but it's nice knowing it's there. I import certain 360 exclusives, but not as many as I'd like since the majority of them are region locked. I also like being able to hop onto the Japanese PSN and grab the occasional demo for a game we've yet to get.
Free online - Not that I acually play games online, but besides the occasional PSN Plus early access, I get demos the same time everyone else does. No premium period like Silver users have on XBL. Also, because I have a Netflix subscription, I can access that for free, just like every other device under the sun (besides 360).

As for games, they're pretty close. Thanks to their desperate attempts to break into the Japanese market, Microsoft bankrolled Mistwalker and we got Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey out of the deal. I imagine they also pulled a few strings for Tales of Vesperia. Three of this generation's best JRPGs. Not to mention Cave, Treasure and a number of other shmup developers have set their sights on the 360. On the other hand, PS3 boasts the likes of Valkyria Chronicles, Metal Gear Solid 4, Yakuza, etc. Looking forward the PS3 has more that's caught my eye, like Final Fantasy Versus XIII (for now) and The Last Guardian.

I do like XBLA though. Probably the best thing to ever happen to the 360.

They're both fairly disappointing to be honest. PS3, 360 and Wii combined still manage fall far short of the PlayStation 2 alone.

Servers that literally just point you to another host? Even if the supposed 20 million active daily users all tried to join a game at exactly the same time, the required hardware and upkeep is *more* than covered by the licensing costs from the game, the advertising, the charging for every little bit of DLC, so on. Are you seriously telling me that you think a couple of boxes to point you to another player manage to cost $50 per person? $10 per person, maybe? ...$1 per person?

If MS' stats are accurate, and they have 30 million users of xbox live, then they're making $1,800,000,000 a year from that. And that's not counting advertising on it.
So, either their servers are actually made out of unobtinium, or costs are absolutely dwarfed by profit. A relatively cheap server can easily handle dozens of hits a second, and that's running a general-purpose webserver, a special-purpose one dedicated to a single task that requires much less bandwidth than a web server isn't going to be all that expensive - and given all the profit they get elsewhere, not trying to get the few pennies per-person that costs back hardly seems unreasonable.

PS3 Free online and better customer service I think. I've read to many topics and news reports on how XBL treats their players, step out line just by an inch and your account can be suspended and let's us not forget XBL does the scarlet letter thing---remember the autisim kid who got permanently branded a cheater for what---Lousy Halo Armor. Sorry unless the armor gives you unlimited ammo and reduces damage and protects you from headshot, who cares about how the kid got it. Anyway both units have their pros and cons but PS3 just seems better to me.

As an owner of both, I prefer the 360. I prefer the controller, interface, and services that xbox live gives me. My PS3 is basically just used for exclusives (of which there are quite a lot of good ones these days), all multiplatform games are bought either for my 360 or PC.

I'd have to say I'm the complete opposite of you. My 360 is basically used for exclusives only and I buy all multiplatformers on PS3. Mostly due to personal preference and because I don't want to pay to play games online that I can play for free on PS3 and PC.

That was my reasoning for getting the 360, first. I now have both. Each has it's pluses and minuses as listed already. A "biggie" for me recently was trying to back up saves. I popped a USB mem stick in the PS3, selected 'copy' and it worked. I successfully transferred my PS3 saves from my friends PS3 downstairs to mine up here. I then tried copying my 360 saves to the same USB stick, no go. :rolleyes:

Another thing, though silly, the PS3 does that I like and the 360 does not is my TV knows when the PS3 turns on, and it auto switches to that HDMI input. (The PS3 uses an HDMI 1.3 revision where the 360 is 1.2. It has to be 1.3+ for this feature to work.)

I honestly can't say one is better than the other, (especially game graphics) as they do do some things differently. I got both because each has exclusives I enjoy. I don't think selling a PS3 for a 360 (or vise-versa) is all that necessary if you enjoy the platform you have. Exclusives is about the only reason to get both, or swap. In my opinion of course.

360, because it was cheaper, I'm used to xbox controllers and because of the exclusive games (mainly Halo's).

I wait for sales and/or combo deals. I recently got my 320GB PS3, 2 games, a BR movie and the PS3 remote for BR (and DVD) for the price of the 160GB model with 2 games. (Or $299.99, it was $110 off.) I forget what I got the Slim for.

Never really saw the point of getting a console because more software is available. I always say this to people who say "360 has more games": Who cares? Its not like your going to buy all those games. PS3 has enough games, its not like your ever going to end up owning the entire PS3 library anytime soon.

Uhh, isn't it natural to want the system with more exclusives you like? Software is everything for consoles, hardware means nothing if you don't have fun games to play.

360, don't see the sense in having to use a handheld object to play with the Kinect.
Plus, the majority of my games are backwards compatible, so it made sense to go with what we had.
My oldest 360 console broke twice, it was repaired and returned FOC, plus MS gave us free Xbox live time for our trouble. I got like, six months worth of live cards.
The new console has given us no issues whatsoever.

Yes its natural thats why I got PS3 because it has more exclusives. I have no worries about not finding fun games to play on PS3.

"Never really saw the point of getting a console because more software is available."?

Total software not exclusives. Seriously though why does it matter? Its not like you can buy and play all the games available so its a stupid reason to prefer a console over another.

Who cares about total software? When people say "more games" they're talking about the good ones, not the shovelware and crap.

Then why don't you people say that? They way you people say it is as theres literally no games in the PS3 library while the Xbox library is a vast ocean of games. There isn't much shovelware/crap on PS3, that stuff you find in Wii and DS library.

Who said anything about buying the entire library? More games means a larger selection to choose from. Why go to a video store that has 100 movies when the place down the street has 200?

I never said anything about the PS3 or 360 library. I think the PS3 has a lot more exclusives than the 360, and a large amount of the 360 "exclusives" are also on PC.

That's your interpretation. I understood it as just that, "more games", not "none on the PS3". :shrug:

Although a PC will always be the best solution...between those two I'll always go with the PS3: superior hardware (usually better graphics and definitely when talking about exclusives), IMO better exclusives, PSN is free but you can have PS Plus which although I don't have I consider an interesting option, although I don't like things like the Move or Kinect, Move is more accurate (although I admit Knect is more advanced in terms of innovation), IMO better controller and looks better as well.

Not really a great example since both those numbers are insanely high selection for a video store(assuming all 100 or 200 videos are different). In the case of movies most people would make a selection after seeing 20 or so movies.

360, as that was what my friends played, and anything more expensive was out of my league anyway. Just got a new job and I'll be trying to save for a gaming PC, but tbh, there are so many other expenses I need to consider before I get there.
I'm pretty sure PS3 is better overall, if you can afford it (obviously the same x2 goes for a decent PC rig).

You make it sound like that the PS3 is extremely expensive compared to 360. I can say it is not, its only 100 dollars more and its a much better deal because of Blu ray and free online. It also ends up being cheaper than 360 because you don't have to pay online fees. Xbox 360 with 2 years of Live is the same price as PS3.

yeah im wanting to get a pc b4 SKyrim comes out(cant wait) but thanks for all the replies i hope i didnt start another console war me being new to the forums lol i forgot i even started this topic and jus relised when filtering options but its like anything in life it comes down to preference if i had the money id own every gaming console but that would b like havin a girlfriend with 8 briasts :wink_smile:
i wouldnt know where to start