Lack of Sony PS3 games makes me get my Xbox 360 out

It isn’t so much that the PS3 lacks as much as it is that it always gets them late. Right now the PS3 cost more than the 360 yet the same good games on the PS3 have better versions on the 360. Think Graw 2, Rainbow 6, Madden 08, NHL 08, I’m no brainiac but as a consumer I know paying more while getting less isn’t a good deal. Sony keeps saying “Oh but it will be great” I say I can wait. Why in the world would someone buy it now when it is expensive when the maker say’s it isn’t that good now? Yeah I may get the RROD again but I will be playing tons of great games and as a gamer that is what matters. Besides MS will get the kinks out and I have a 3yr warranty that I know they will honor. You see my 360 broke 5 months past it’s original warranty and I have a quiter, cooler, and most important FREE replacement. When my PS2 broke after its 90 day warranty I got to buy a new one. Screw Sony don’t miss out on Mass Effect, Bioshock, Halo 3, Virtual Fighter 5(multiplayer version!!!), Gears of War, Madden 08, and all the other games including the multiplat ones because if anything the 360 will get the best version earlier!

The problem is the “tun” more games comin out for the ps3 are also on the 360… except what 2? Sell the ps3 while you can still get a decent price for it.

Resistance: fall of man, Motorstorm, Lair (controls aren’t bad at all. People who complain about the controls only play for 5 minutes) Warhawk, HeavenlySword, and Ratchet and clank next month. That’s enough games to keep you quiet.

Some pretty cool stuff. Thanks for this info.

I just bought a ps3. I like the built in wireless, bluetooth, HDMI, larger and easily upgradeable hard drive, plus the ability to use it as a computer by adding linux. Movies look wonderful on the blu-ray. i have an old xbox, and a wii. One of these days I will get a 360. Sure there are fewer games. It’s fine for me now. While the 360 is nice looking, why do they break down, why did it take so long for microsoft to add HDMI, why do I have to pay separately for a wireless attachment? Some aspects such as online play are well thought out. Other aspects are cheap.

@ Luke

Sell the PS3? Why?

Lets not understimate Sony to much, yes, there is now a lack of good games for PS3, yes, their marketing strategy is… well, is not! and they are embrassing some bad moments, but lets not forget… they sold 120.000.000 PS2 consoles, they still are the company who more consoles sell every month (Ps2/Ps3/PSP combined), they have the best studios working for them and they have a high quality product, PS2 owners will think twice before they change of console brand when they take the next step, and Bluray while not THE factor to buy a PS3 is still a good factor, and with HDTV sets lowering prices every day a PS3 is a good buy, the games… those will come, and this Christmas will bring many good first and third party games to PS3, with Xbox360 having so many hardware faillures and a 3 year warranty for a problem that shouldn’t even exist I don’t know… they have the games, but not a reliable product, M$ is a bitch company(sorry my french) and if it wasn’t the one year of advantage they would be allready doomed, fortunately that is not the case and once again in the video-game history we have three strong companys fighting for consumers, Sony isn’t doing very well infact, but they still have one more full year to show us of what PS3 is able to do before we can say if Sony has lost is “power”.

It took awhile for the 360 to get anything decent, let the PS3 play catch up, remember catch up mode in Daytona? Well it’s switched on for this ride.

Ratchet and Clank, just looking at one screenshot tells you that this game is going to look absolutely brilliant. It’s on par with a Pixar Animation movie. The gameplay should be sweet, these guys at Insomniac Games know what they are doing. I think this game will justify your purchase of a full HD 1080p TV, just the vibrant colours scream “watch me”.

Of course there’s Killzone2, MGS4, GTHD among many. Drake’s Fortune should be entertaining at the least and the one I’m most looking forward to the most is Little Big Planet. I think this game will surprise many, just like the Wii, and go on to be the PS3s best selling game, but that’s the feeling I get.

Its obvious Sony rushed the PS3 just to be in the game. All of their games except like 4-5 now are 360 third party game ports that came out months after it came out on the 360. I feel that they have made no effort at all to bring quality gaming this generation but relied heavily on brand recognition to win the high defintion dvd war. Its obvious. the next gen dvd format war would have waaaaay more profitable than they could ever have made on games so thats what they pushed. Lood at all their adds and tell me how many times they mention the words “blue ray”. PS3 will follow the steps of the PSP at best.

Sony did not rush anything, in fact they delayed it several months so they could get it right. Microsoft on the other hand…do I need to go there even?

360 = crappy console with the best games so far

PS3 = quality machine without the best games so far

GRAW 2 looks better on PS3

Dirt Runs smoother in PS3

Oblivion looks much better in PS3

Heavenly Sword has the most amazing graphics to date in a video game

And those are games with less than a year after the PS3 launched, if some games look worse on PS3 that’s just because programmers are making fast ports from X360 to PS3, but I believe that if Sony catch up the reverse will happen, games will look better on PS3 and worse in X360, PS3 is not easy to develop for, but it allows more complex graphics and phisics, when developers are confortable developing for PS3 those “ports” will no longer be.

About the warranty of X360… well, I think you should think a little, they are offering 3 years warrannty JUST for the RROD, wich is a problem that shouldn’t even exist, it’s not a warranty, is sand for the eyes of consumers, and if your PS2 broke after 9 months Sony would have changed, at least if you did’nt modded it to run piracy, in that case shame on you.

The REAL problem for Sony is the Microsoftisized mídias, gamme sites like Gamespot, bloggers, analysts, etc… are beeing stangely to “kind” for M$ and to mean to Sony, specially american sites… I wonder why….. :S

I’m from Portugal, I don’t have money to buy more than a game each 2 or 3 months (maximum), so I don’t want many games, I want some good games once in a while, I couldn’t be happier with my PS3, I have free demos, free online play, some fantastic games and a console that IS and looks great, there is something special about a PS3, and only those who have one knows why am I saing this.

Wii – a toy, wich is nice!

Xbox360 – a rushed and absolete game console that as a good graphics card, has a pille of expensive ad-ons (HDD’s, wireless controllers, wi-fi thing, HD-DVD drive, etc…), is supported by the biggest and stuppidiest company in industry but is in the market at some time, has a payed online service and as nothing od special about how it looks or play, the hardware is also a mess, full of problems, optical drives that scratch disks, CPU that pop-off, noisy, RROD, not easely upgradable… well… is just a ugly playing machine that has some nice graphics, 10.000.000 owners don’t have HDMI on their’s… conclusion…. a rushed product with many and some good games, but in the negative side there are to many things that time can’t fix.

PS3 – A AAA hardware, totaly next-gen, with next gen processor, next gen optical drive, easily upgradable (HDD), a free online service, in soon will have HOME to make their online experience stronger, games… well… not many has we know, but that is something that will be ironed this christmas, and has a high price tag, but those are negative things (the price and lack of games) that time will fix, and in soon there will be no reason to not buy a PS3, it will have everything Xbox360 has and much more, for me RFOM, Motorstorm, Dirt, Oblivion, Warhawk, Heavenly Sword among others are everything I need until some other great games come out, Little Big Planet, MGS4, Killzone2, GT5 prologue, Devil May Cry, GTA IV, Locoroco, COD4, Ratched $ Clank, Drake’s Fortune, Assasin’s Creed, etc, etc, etc…. Xbox 360 has HALO3 and Mass Effect has true good exclusives, that for me in not enough to buy their faulty product and keep feeding M$.

I’m fine now with my PS3 and will be better in more 4 to 5 months from now.

If you have a PS3 stick with it, no doubt Sony wont let it die, if it does then the comapny as whole will be in question for the future.If you have a 360 then you’ve made the right choice for the next 2-3 years.
The PS3 which yes ive seen and played feels rushed, feels cheap but no doubt the games will start pouring in in a couple of years. Its not worth the money.
The 360 is at the right price point with a ton of games, feels and looks good too. Also HDMI is an equal to compnent with a digital audio port ala 360. If you dont believe me get over to toms harware guide, they have an article on it now. So if youre looking for a new system for now 360 is the choice.
The Wii is a great cheap piece of kit which is great for you and your mates but get boring fast, i know i have one.
So the best plan is, buy a 360, its cheap had loads of games, wait 2 years until PS3 becomes cheaper and has games, then buy that.
oh and another thing, i have over 200 DVD’s why would i want blu-ray or HD-dvd?? im not replacing them all for better picture quality!

It really comes down to price. Thats really the only reason the wii is doing so good is because it is the cheapest of the 3.(Meaning people don’t care about pixels and Blue-ray) The problem is, well PS3 ever be cheaper then the Xbox 360? (and well either be cheaper then the wii). I have an xbox 360. I have had one die on me. But I have no reason to run out and buy another console. once the ps3 finally hits around $200 then I might think about it. (I have had a HDTV by then)
I just don’t see how PS3 is ever going to be able to catch up? Yes one or two games well help the PS3, but they need more then that. The Xbox 360 and Wii would have to drop there Console for 6 months (or more) for the PS3 to have an impact. And I don’t see that happening. OR PS3 becomes dirt cheap like the PS2.

@ Bob

“The PS3 which yes ive seen and played feels rushed, feels cheap but no doubt the games will start pouring in in a couple of years. Its not worth the money.”

Man… you must be blind os just ignorant!

PS3 feels rushed and cheap?? That’s the most absurd thing I ever read, PS3 is one of these hardware equipments that really feels “special and expensive”!

Or you have played a X360 painted of shiny black or you played a Popstation…

And if you have 200 DVDs a PS3 would be a great choice for you since it would upscale them to 1080p.

Component is not equal to HDMI for a lot of reasons since it can’t output 1080p signals for movies (with DRM), you need… what… 5 cables instead of one?

Just stay in the reality ok, yes, Sony has a lot of work to do if they want the PS3 to succeed, but they made the best hardware home-console ever!

Games are just around the corner, Home is a matter of weeks… I coundn’t be happier with the future of my PS3, and if you search in the news, a research prooved that people want more a good PS3 Sony console than a faulty X360 M$ product.

And another thing…

STOP complaining about the price, you buy $600 phones, $100 pants or $150 shoes, you (X360 guys) pay $70 for a service that should be free and pay big for wi-fi accessories, HDD’s, etc…

$599 for a PS3 is cheaper than $400 for a X360 if you analyse well what’s under the wood!

I own both consoles and I have to say the PS3 sucks big-time for gaming. The only reason I bought it is because it was the cheapest Blu-ray player at the time, and where I live, in Hong Kong, is where you can get the cheapest PS3 in the world at launch, at US$485. There’s no way I would pay USD$850 for PS3, which is what the PS3 is selling for in the UK. You would have be to a complete retard to pay that much for this piece of crap.

As a Blu-ray player, the PS3 is very good. However, the lack of IR remote capability completely sucks as any AV enthusiast worth his salt would be using a universal remote. The PS3 BD remote is junk, and the PS3 controller used to control BD is complete crap. How many times have I tossed the controller on the sofa and see the movie fast-forward or rewind because the controller hit one of the trigger buttons. There are some ways around this buy buying an old PS2 USB remote adapter, and there a few 3rd party fixes available now, but none are really good and if PS3 was to be considered an videophile piece of equipment, then it’s already failed.

Talking about the controllers, there’s vital fact about PS3 – it has NO RUMBLE!!!! Yes, Sony took PS fans back to the stone ages of Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis with no rumble. That was the last generation to not have this feature, until Sony released PS3 this “next gen”. Even N64 had rumble, and Playstation 1 offered it as an accessory wit the first dual-shock. Long story about how Sony tried to rip off its customers by not including it so they won’t have to pay rumble technology licensing fees, but ended having to settle a huge lawsuit anyway for USD$150 million, which was way more than if they didn’t appeal in the first case when the judge only ordered USD$90 million in damages. Unfortunately for gamers, because of Sony thinking their fanbase would support PS3 no matter what they did, this robbed us of rumble with PS3. Of course to pay off that USD$150 million, Sony is now going to offer a rumble controller as an ACCESSORY which will come out to be like USD$50 for one controller or USD$100 for two, which is what most people get. Don’t forget to add that cost to the PS3 if you want to do an accurate price per feature comparison.

But with as many faults as PS3 has, it would matter less if they had the kind of game library that PS2 did. Let’s face it, even though the original Xbox was miles ahead in terms of technology to PS2, PS2 had a way better games library and pretty much why they dominated. Halo was the best game last gen, but other than this series and a few others, there wasn’t as much on offer on the original Xbox. PS3, however, is even worse than the original Xbox in terms of offering games. The games just suck. LAIR which was hyped up to be this Wii-slayer turned out to be the biggest piece of turd ever. I’ve never seen such a so-called “AAA” game get so many 50% scores, it’s embarrassing. On the other hand, the same month you get Bioshock on the 360, which is has gotten an average of 96% reviews, one of the highest scores ever (#8 highest ever amongst all tens of thousands of games ever released, and the highest game to rank in the past two generations). So that in a nutshell shows you the discrepancy between games on these two consoles.

All the other hyped-up games on PS3 so far have turned out flat. Motorstorm? Complete rubbish. Resistance? Average FPS which was trumped by Rainbow Six on 360 last year, and it didn’t nearly receive the same level of hype and expectations. VF5? Another boring retread and what’s worse, it doesn’t even have online. Supposedly VF5 needed such microsecond reactions that it wasn’t possibly to have online on this game – that is, until they announced the 360 version. Warhawk? Another average game that went from so-called AAA status to being so poor that Sony decided to release it as an online game. Ninja Gaiden? Probably the best PS3 game ever released, and it’s a REMAKE of an original XBOX game! I played this game 4 years ago. Xbox 360 will have exclusive of Ninja Gaiden 2, a new game that people have been looking forward to, not the 3rd remake of the same game (the original Xbox even got a remake of this game, called Ninja Gaiden BLACK).

Sadly most of the anticipated PS3 “exclusives” have now gone multiplatform. We’re taking Assassin’s Creed, Grand Theft Auto 4, Devil May Cry 4, Unreal Tournament 3, Virtua Fighter 5, Resident Evil 5, etc., etc. All PS3 has left with is FFXIII, MGS4 and GT5, and those won’t be out until late 2008, if we’re lucky. The 360, on the other hand, is bursting with AAA exclusives, too many to mention, but which include Bioshock, Mass Effect, Dead Rising 1 & 2, Forza Motorsport 2, Project Gotham Racing 3 & 4, Gears of War 1 & 2, Ninja Gaiden 2, Crackdown, Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Too Human, etc., etc.

Even taking the exclusives debate aside (despite it being really one of the most important factors in choosing a console), the multiplatform games are even better on the Xbox 360. This was once shocking in light of all the “4D” graphical claims made by Sony about the PS3 and the Cell processor, etc. Now that PS3 has come out, we see time and time again the Xbox 360 version of a game being better than the PS3 version. This superiority is probably the glaring on sports games, where the majority of the major 2008 titles (Madden NFL 08, NHL 08) on the 360 run on 60 frames per second, while the PS3 version runs at 20 fps. You really have to start to wonder when the differences become so obvious. Beside frame rates, side-by-side comparisons of multiplatform games has the 360 looking better GRAPHICALLY as well than the PS3.

Take look at the 360 version of NBA Live 08 (http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q262/anonim1979/nba08d360.jpg) and then compare it to the PS3 version (http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q262/anonim1979/nbaps3.jpg). The difference is night and day.

It very well could be it’s because games are developed on the 360 first, and then ported to the PS3, but as a consumer, it doesn’t matter. Multiplatform games are superior on the 360. Throwing wrench into this argument is that fact that many of the 2008 sports games are developed from the ground up on PS3. So why is it still the case where the 360 version has double the framerate AND looks better graphically?

People talk about PS3 online being free. Yes, it is, and in this case, you definitely get what you pay for. PS3 online (PSN) sucks! Let’s start with the content available. There’s hardly any. If you’re a avid gamer like me that checks for new content online at least once a week, on Xbox Live (XBL), you are sure to find at least one if not a few new demos a week, as well as videos. On PSN, you might as well be watching grass grow. There is very little new content that is updated often, and now with PS3 almost being a year-old, there is maybe 20 demos available, while there are literally hundreds on XBL. What’s surprising is that even for multiplatform games, you’ll find a demo on XBL and not on PSN. The menu for PSN sucks too. It’s basically like a webpage, and for some reason, webpages load incredibly slow on the PS3, whether you are in the “store” or using their browser. The XBL menu is simple to use, and easy-to-navigate. For the PS3, because it is set up like a webpage, navigation is not intuitive with the D-pad. Often, you have to pull down the left thumbstick and place the cursor on the “next” button just to move forward. Thankfully, to go back to a page, you only need to hit the left bumper button (L1). The whole set-up is just a mess and painful to operate.

And why is it that after you have downloaded a demo, that you need to install it first? This takes some time, and occasionally PS3 will have to restart. On the 360, you never have to install the demos, they are ready to go after they are downloaded. Same with firmware updates. On the 360, you are alerted to a firmware update, and then asked to hit one button, before there is a quick download. Your 360 will need to restart, but its done automatically. On the PS3, they don’t even notify you automatically about a firmware update. You find this out when you try to log on to the store, and it tells you that you must first update your system. But instead of offering you a button to press, they say you must first navigate through the menu to the settings to the system menu. After you get there, then you click and button for it to CHECK on whether there is an update. If there is, you click a button for the download to begin, but the download takes FOREVER. At least it seems forever, for me, it averages between 20 and 30 minutes, which is incredibly annoying when I only have a limited amount of free time that I can devote to gaming and this is eaten up by this downloading. But what’s terrible is that after it’s downloaded, it doesn’t install automatically, which means I need to check on it every so often. With the 360, I can watch TV or surf the web and now everything will be down automatically. On PS3, after it’s done downloading, you need to then agree to the service conditions (yes, you have to scroll through the whole document before it lets you hit “agree”), and then it INSTALLS (yes, just like the demos), which takes another 10-15 minutes. It’s just a painful process, and to make it worse, last week, there were TWO updates. Yes, both times that I turned my PS3 on and logged in to the PSN Store last week, I had to do this update. I didn’t research the reason, but either Sony’s being awful in managing these updates where they didn’t bother just combining the two into one, or the made some huge errors in the first update that had to be corrected in the second.

Now if you’re going to talk about gameplay, then there is no comparison. XBL is just miles beyond PSN. First of all, you are pretty much guaranteed that any game on 360 that can have online where it makes sense will have online. That is just not the case for PS3. In fact, there are many, many mulitplatform games that will have online on 360, but no online for PS3. To me, that’s just BS. Online is a huge component in gaming, and it adds so much more shelf-life to a game. Not having online means once you’re done with a campaign, you’re pretty much done with the game. Sure, you can play with your roommates and friends if they are in the room, but that’s not going to be available anytime, and pretty much if you own someone in a game, there are only so many times you want to beat that person (or get beaten if you’re crap). Not to mention that the 360 comes with a headset INCLUDED whereas for the PS3, you need to buy a Bluetooth headset. Now you can get one for an extra $20 if you buy the disc version of Warhawk, but it still sucks having to pay extra for it, and guess what, the Bluetooth headset connectivity is totally unrealiable! What a piece of crap. And the reason why you hardly ever can talk to anyone online is because no one has a headset. With the 360, people are always chatting because the headset came with the console!

Now there is a lot of hype about PSN offering “Home” supposedly this fall. It’s this Second Life type platform where you control a doll, basically, and you get a doll house that you can decorate, and instead of achievement points which you get on the 360, you get “trophies”. To house these trophies, you get a trophy room, and the main selling point of Home is that you can decorate your doll house and trophy room, and then you can invite other virtual dolls to your doll house and show it off. I don’t know, I’m in my 30s, and I’m not looking to pick up teen (or younger) virtual dolls of my own sex and show them “my pad”. I have a real house if I want to decorate, and the kicker is Sony will actually charge you for these virtual items like clothes, furniture, etc. Yes, they have a virtual doll Bravia flatscreen that you’re going to have to pay for. Might be cool for the tween set, but Home as it’s sounding doesn’t really appeal to me.

So do I regret my PS3 purchase? Absolutely not. For USD$485, I got a good Blu-ray player to match with my front projector, and so far I’ve collected around 30 BD discs already. It’s definitely been bang-for-the-buck considering other BD players at the time were $USD1,000+. Of course now, BD players have come down in price tremendously, under the cost of PS3 and with higher video and audio quality and more features, so I probably wouldn’t make the same choice today. At the same time, for USD$180, I got the Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on, and that was and still is a steal. It’s a fantastic player, and strangely, HD-DVD releases, even multiplatform releases, are consistently better than its BD counterparts. I’m talking VC1 codec vs. MPEG-2 (though AVC is getting more popular on BD and just as good as VC), and generally more HD-DVDs have Dolby TrueHD/DTS-HD, etc., than BD discs. But I love both formats, and it’s great that I can play every HD disc released (I even own D-VHS).

So if you’re into Blu-ray, then the PS3 may be a decent purchase, though you can certainly do better with the newer, less expensive models that have come out, particularly the Samsung models. But if you’re buying PS3 for games, then you’re out of luck ’cause PS3 sucks for gaming. Might as well wait a year and a half when possibly FFVIII and MGS4 might come out (we’d be lucky if they came out in time for the holidays in 2008) to see if you still want it. Buying a PS3 now is basically like flushing your $$$ down the toilet.

I own both consoles and I have to say the PS3 sucks big-time for gaming. The only reason I bought it is because it was the cheapest Blu-ray player at the time, and where I live, in Hong Kong, is where you can get the cheapest PS3 in the world at launch, at US$485. There’s no way I would pay USD$850 for PS3, which is what the PS3 is selling for in the UK. You would have be to a complete retard to pay that much for this piece of crap.

As a Blu-ray player, the PS3 is very good. However, the lack of IR remote capability completely sucks as any AV enthusiast worth his salt would be using a universal remote. The PS3 BD remote is junk, and the PS3 controller used to control BD is complete crap. How many times have I tossed the controller on the sofa and see the movie fast-forward or rewind because the controller hit one of the trigger buttons. There are some ways around this buy buying an old PS2 USB remote adapter, and there a few 3rd party fixes available now, but none are really good and if PS3 was to be considered an videophile piece of equipment, then it’s already failed.

Talking about the controllers, there’s vital fact about PS3 – it has NO RUMBLE!!!! Yes, Sony took PS fans back to the stone ages of Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis with no rumble. That was the last generation to not have this feature, until Sony released PS3 this “next gen”. Even N64 had rumble, and Playstation 1 offered it as an accessory wit the first dual-shock. Long story about how Sony tried to rip off its customers by not including it so they won’t have to pay rumble technology licensing fees, but ended having to settle a huge lawsuit anyway for USD$150 million, which was way more than if they didn’t appeal in the first case when the judge only ordered USD$90 million in damages. Unfortunately for gamers, because of Sony thinking their fanbase would support PS3 no matter what they did, this robbed us of rumble with PS3. Of course to pay off that USD$150 million, Sony is now going to offer a rumble controller as an ACCESSORY which will come out to be like USD$50 for one controller or USD$100 for two, which is what most people get. Don’t forget to add that cost to the PS3 if you want to do an accurate price per feature comparison.

But with as many faults as PS3 has, it would matter less if they had the kind of game library that PS2 did. Let’s face it, even though the original Xbox was miles ahead in terms of technology to PS2, PS2 had a way better games library and pretty much why they dominated. Halo was the best game last gen, but other than this series and a few others, there wasn’t as much on offer on the original Xbox. PS3, however, is even worse than the original Xbox in terms of offering games. The games just suck. LAIR which was hyped up to be this Wii-slayer turned out to be the biggest piece of turd ever. I’ve never seen such a so-called “AAA” game get so many 50% scores, it’s embarrassing. On the other hand, the same month you get Bioshock on the 360, which is has gotten an average of 96% reviews, one of the highest scores ever (#8 highest ever amongst all tens of thousands of games ever released, and the highest game to rank in the past two generations). So that in a nutshell shows you the discrepancy between games on these two consoles.

All the other hyped-up games on PS3 so far have turned out flat. Motorstorm? Complete rubbish. Resistance? Average FPS which was trumped by Rainbow Six on 360 last year, and it didn’t nearly receive the same level of hype and expectations. VF5? Another boring retread and what’s worse, it doesn’t even have online. Supposedly VF5 needed such microsecond reactions that it wasn’t possibly to have online on this game – that is, until they announced the 360 version. Warhawk? Another average game that went from so-called AAA status to being so poor that Sony decided to release it as an online game. Ninja Gaiden? Probably the best PS3 game ever released, and it’s a REMAKE of an original XBOX game! I played this game 4 years ago. Xbox 360 will have exclusive of Ninja Gaiden 2, a new game that people have been looking forward to, not the 3rd remake of the same game (the original Xbox even got a remake of this game, called Ninja Gaiden BLACK).

Sadly most of the anticipated PS3 “exclusives” have now gone multiplatform. We’re taking Assassin’s Creed, Grand Theft Auto 4, Devil May Cry 4, Unreal Tournament 3, Virtua Fighter 5, Resident Evil 5, etc., etc. All PS3 has left with is FFXIII, MGS4 and GT5, and those won’t be out until late 2008, if we’re lucky. The 360, on the other hand, is bursting with AAA exclusives, too many to mention, but which include Bioshock, Mass Effect, Dead Rising 1 & 2, Forza Motorsport 2, Project Gotham Racing 3 & 4, Gears of War 1 & 2, Ninja Gaiden 2, Crackdown, Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Too Human, etc., etc.

Even taking the exclusives debate aside (despite it being really one of the most important factors in choosing a console), the multiplatform games are even better on the Xbox 360. This was once shocking in light of all the “4D” graphical claims made by Sony about the PS3 and the Cell processor, etc. Now that PS3 has come out, we see time and time again the Xbox 360 version of a game being better than the PS3 version. This superiority is probably the glaring on sports games, where the majority of the major 2008 titles (Madden NFL 08, NHL 08) on the 360 run on 60 frames per second, while the PS3 version runs at 20 fps. You really have to start to wonder when the differences become so obvious. Beside frame rates, side-by-side comparisons of multiplatform games has the 360 looking better GRAPHICALLY as well than the PS3.

Take look at the 360 version of NBA Live 08 (http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q262/anonim1979/nba08d360.jpg) and then compare it to the PS3 version (http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q262/anonim1979/nbaps3.jpg). The difference is night and day.

It very well could be it’s because games are developed on the 360 first, and then ported to the PS3, but as a consumer, it doesn’t matter. Multiplatform games are superior on the 360. Throwing wrench into this argument is that fact that many of the 2008 sports games are developed from the ground up on PS3. So why is it still the case where the 360 version has double the framerate AND looks better graphically?

People talk about PS3 online being free. Yes, it is, and in this case, you definitely get what you pay for. PS3 online (PSN) sucks! Let’s start with the content available. There’s hardly any. If you’re a avid gamer like me that checks for new content online at least once a week, on Xbox Live (XBL), you are sure to find at least one if not a few new demos a week, as well as videos. On PSN, you might as well be watching grass grow. There is very little new content that is updated often, and now with PS3 almost being a year-old, there is maybe 20 demos available, while there are literally hundreds on XBL. What’s surprising is that even for multiplatform games, you’ll find a demo on XBL and not on PSN. The menu for PSN sucks too. It’s basically like a webpage, and for some reason, webpages load incredibly slow on the PS3, whether you are in the “store” or using their browser. The XBL menu is simple to use, and easy-to-navigate. For the PS3, because it is set up like a webpage, navigation is not intuitive with the D-pad. Often, you have to pull down the left thumbstick and place the cursor on the “next” button just to move forward. Thankfully, to go back to a page, you only need to hit the left bumper button (L1). The whole set-up is just a mess and painful to operate.

And why is it that after you have downloaded a demo, that you need to install it first? This takes some time, and occasionally PS3 will have to restart. On the 360, you never have to install the demos, they are ready to go after they are downloaded. Same with firmware updates. On the 360, you are alerted to a firmware update, and then asked to hit one button, before there is a quick download. Your 360 will need to restart, but its done automatically. On the PS3, they don’t even notify you automatically about a firmware update. You find this out when you try to log on to the store, and it tells you that you must first update your system. But instead of offering you a button to press, they say you must first navigate through the menu to the settings to the system menu. After you get there, then you click and button for it to CHECK on whether there is an update. If there is, you click a button for the download to begin, but the download takes FOREVER. At least it seems forever, for me, it averages between 20 and 30 minutes, which is incredibly annoying when I only have a limited amount of free time that I can devote to gaming and this is eaten up by this downloading. But what’s terrible is that after it’s downloaded, it doesn’t install automatically, which means I need to check on it every so often. With the 360, I can watch TV or surf the web and now everything will be down automatically. On PS3, after it’s done downloading, you need to then agree to the service conditions (yes, you have to scroll through the whole document before it lets you hit “agree”), and then it INSTALLS (yes, just like the demos), which takes another 10-15 minutes. It’s just a painful process, and to make it worse, last week, there were TWO updates. Yes, both times that I turned my PS3 on and logged in to the PSN Store last week, I had to do this update. I didn’t research the reason, but either Sony’s being awful in managing these updates where they didn’t bother just combining the two into one, or the made some huge errors in the first update that had to be corrected in the second.

Now if you’re going to talk about gameplay, then there is no comparison. XBL is just miles beyond PSN. First of all, you are pretty much guaranteed that any game on 360 that can have online where it makes sense will have online. That is just not the case for PS3. In fact, there are many, many mulitplatform games that will have online on 360, but no online for PS3. To me, that’s just BS. Online is a huge component in gaming, and it adds so much more shelf-life to a game. Not having online means once you’re done with a campaign, you’re pretty much done with the game. Sure, you can play with your roommates and friends if they are in the room, but that’s not going to be available anytime, and pretty much if you own someone in a game, there are only so many times you want to beat that person (or get beaten if you’re crap). Not to mention that the 360 comes with a headset INCLUDED whereas for the PS3, you need to buy a Bluetooth headset. Now you can get one for an extra $20 if you buy the disc version of Warhawk, but it still sucks having to pay extra for it, and guess what, the Bluetooth headset connectivity is totally unrealiable! What a piece of crap. And the reason why you hardly ever can talk to anyone online is because no one has a headset. With the 360, people are always chatting because the headset came with the console!

I am of the same view… I got a PS3 in July when the 60GB models went on sale… needless to say, I have two games for it and the only one I bought was Ninja Gaiden Sigma (the other was a freebie: Call of Duty 3). There IS NOTHING worth writing home about after Ninja Gaiden Sigma… It’s annoying… Not only that but MOST of the PS3 thirdy party titles are on the 360 in better form with addictive achievements worth unlocking (im an achievement junkie)

I want to love my PS3 but not because it’s a Blu Ray player, or a computer.. but because it has rockin games. Right now, it’s my new version of Playstation 2 (one of the main reasons I bought it) for my High Def TV. Right now, I have 7 releases for 360 that are interesting me this year and 4 or 5 for Wii. One for PS3 (Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune)… I know I have to pick and choose which are the best of the bunch… but there’s no doubt that the 360 kills the PS3′s flame… no matter how much of a spin Sony throws on the matter

MK24ever you’re such a pathetic Sony fanboy\troll i see your dumb comments all over the net and nobody is buying your crap, you even stoop to giving top 360 games you’ve obviously never played, scores like 1 out of 10 for Forza Motorsport 2 on the Gamespot user reviews and 3 out of 10 for BioShock.

http://uk.gamespot.com/users/MK24ever/contributions?mode=ratings

I had a house mate like you where i used to live, when i played a game he’d only join in if it was on my Ps2, everytime i got my my xbox out he’d refuse to play, what a pathetic loser just like you.

Tim, I’m with you.
I’d like to add that IF you have a Media Center PC – Either Windows XP or Vista, The whole world of the PC Extender opens up for you – Painlessly and VERY cool. I like being able to pause Bioshock – To IM a friend, or tune to HBO to record a TV show from the TV guide. (FREE)… Right from my 360. The video messaging works perfectly, so if you have family members far away, you can still chat and see each other, and play a game together. If your like me, you have a stack of new AAA titles waiting for you to finish the last one to start on. Add the fact that you can download HD movies – without having to marry either the HD-DVD or BluRay format yet, and you can certainly see the strengths of the system come together. I can understand Europe and japan may not see all the positives of this console, but in America, if you’re interested in using it’s available features – It sure is impressive.

@ Matt
I never said I hasn’t a fanboy, as you have seen I use only a nickname in all my posts, I’m not hipocrit.

I ratted those games so low just to annoy a friend, I actually love Bioshock and I loved that PS3 had it.

Whatt I really hate is the spoilled little brats that complain about everything Sony does, Sony is doing better in all aspects than M$ did in the same time frame, more, sites like gamespot became microsoftized and everything they do is making fun of Sony, M$ will destroy this industry!!

… and you’r helping them. I’m not a Sony fanatic, I’ll buy a wii and I’m interested in everything that happens in this crazy world of video games, I became so “active” defending sony because M$ is trying to control everything in this business, from the midias to software houses. I’ll keep my journey because after 20 years playing I know what is good and what is not, americans are trying to kill the japanese brand with sensacionalists and 10 years old war fanatic kids.

@MK24ever

Looks like I can add the word “nut job” to pathetic Sony fanboy\troll, if i used your screwed up brand of logic i could say the evil Japanese are trying to completely take over the electronics industry and i have to troll the internet to protect everyone from Sony.

Grow up!

@ MATT

I see your knowledge has just ended, insulting is now the only way you know to have a debate, I won’t lose more of my time with a boring kid.

Go play with your X3fixme ( if it still works) and come back when you have at least 1mt.

The cool thing to do is hate on the PS3. All the cool kids are doing it like Tim Reed.

Hey Tim get some stuff right before you diss systems. Price comparison saying PS3 sucks cuz it doesn’t give you a headset? Well how about 360 not giving you Wifi or HD DVD included?

Home is free. If you want to get extra above the already free stuff like user created content you can pay for it such as you pay for some wallpapers on XBL for instance. MS charges you too.

As for exclusives. I can tell your a fanboy because all fanboys do is list only their one systems exclusives and never the others. Uncharted, Haze, Heavenly Sword, Warhawk, Motorstorm, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Ratchet & Clank, etc.

Also Unreal 3 is a timed exclusive, plus PS3 & PC can have user created maps, weapons, characters etc while the 360 will not.

Dead Rising 2 is not a confirmed 360 exclusive. It may be but as of right now it is not.

The 360 has lost exclusives as well, Kane & Lynch, Enternal Sonata (with two npc’s and playable), LA Noire had the 360 version dropped, Haze had the 360 version dropped,etc, etc.

Gears 2 is a long way off and I’m currenlty playing Bioshock on my PC since 360 is not the only place to enjoy games like Gears, Halo, etc, etc since MS encourages Games for Windows.

Plus the person who wrote this article, Daniel, doesn’t even like Microsoft anymore since his 360 broke. Which they do about 33% of the time. Great games are cool but not if the hardware breaks that I can’t even play them.

“Debate” is that what that was? I thought it was a fanboy rant with bad spelling.

Oh and unless you were born well before 1966, calling me kid is kind of ridiculous but then most of you’re comments are.

Born well before 1966??

Oohh man… now you even look more stupid than before (and lier).

“I had a house mate like you where i used to live, when i played a game he’d only join in if it was on my Ps2, everytime i got my my xbox out he’d refuse to play, what a pathetic loser just like you.”

Look, I traced two pictures of your two personalities.

Personality 1: http://www.ananova.com/images/web/62055.jpg

Personality 2: http://www.bobbyworks.com/images/fat%20man%20at%20computer.jpg

Your last comment is the final proof I needed to know I’m talking with an unbalanced person, don’t bother ansering because I won’t visit this site again.

Ciao kid/oldman/lier/whatever you are!

@MK24ever

I think you’re quite possiblly deranged and don’t really have a clue what you’re talking about.

I’m 41 years old and have only 1 personality as far as i know, I live with my girl friend in South London UK having moved from rented accommodation at Guildford, Surrey about 3 years ago, what exactly am i supposed to be lying about?

[EDITED]

So which personality are you today?
16 year old Tony or 26 year old Fred?

And talking of unbalanced i’m wondering if your obsession with Sony and hatred for Americans is a tad unhealthy?

Another american article, another bunch of crap! You look like spoiled little brats
MK24ever @ Jun 4th 2007 6:45AM

bla bla bla… SO WHAT?!! Anyway only spoiled little brats like Americans would care about that boooring game! Sony Studios sport division make their games at 1080p at 60fps! What about that?! Dumb americans…

MK24ever
July 10th, 2007 at 9:48 am
And I say:
Americans are NEVER happy with nothing, I knew it was a matter of time to before you hould keep complaining about PS3. I’m tired of you americans spoilled little brats! It’s not a matter of price but VALUE!

by MK24ever
First: You Americans are dumb people.
Second: Why the fuck I didn’t heard you americans complaining by the Euro late launch and the higher price in Europe?

Posted by MK24ever
It’s not about graphics or sound ou games… but I don’t understand how can people support and heartly defend a company like microsoft, they will only be happy when they have crushed all the competition they can find, the fact M$ entered the video-games business is not a good thing, is a terrible one! They don’t have ethic or principles, they just have greed for money and power. That’s why I’ll keep supporting asian comapanies

posted by: MK24ever – July 20, 4:23pm
their luck is the blind fanboys and the dumb american people that wil always defend american crap products.

MK24ever says:
July 10th, 2007 at 10:18 am
So yeah, if you visit american blogs, american sites and are paying attention to american users posts you’ll realise that you are all a bunch of spoiled little brats that don’t stop complaining about prices! Jack Tretton couldn’t have said it better!

Please Stop Personal Comments, to save being banned.

Daniel,

O.K fair enough but they were public profiles you edited, i only had to google his name to find them and i didn’t realise it was against site policy to include them as they didn’t contain addresses or phone numbers.

I’ll be a good boy from now on

They were “public” profiles for the sites where I wanted them to be, I didn’t granted you order to use them here.

And the quotes you made about me are completely out of context and give a very bad impression about me…

but you know what?

I’m happy that happened, that actually made me think a little and in the end I felt sorry for both of us, and I’m not attacking you here, I’m just sharing my thoughts with you, honnestly and I don’t know if you’ll agree, we were not correct, polite neither very “objectiv” in our little discution, I read some of the things I wrote and I just can’t identify myself with some of those comments, in “real” life I’m a 26 years old guy, married, I have a little son, a beautifull whife, I’m a photographer and have a peacefull life in the little country of Portugal, I hate discussions or fights and I can say I’m very happy, I love to make friends and joy good things of life, in Internet I became a crazy fanboy I guess, not because I hate other consoles or other people, I just started getting mad I guess with so much negative attitudes about Sony and PS3, I work directly with many Sony staff (because of video material and stuff like that) and those comments were to me a kind of offense to those persons I know and with who I have friend relations, that with my passion for Sony products and the Playstation brand made of me a fanboy, I don’t regret everything I said in my posts (those above and others) because there was a time were it seemed that bashing Sony for no reason was a national sport or something (mainly in US), Sony did infact made many mistakes (hey, I’m from Europe I know what I’m talking about, delays, price, delays, store, etc…), but still, some blogs and news sites were just to cynical and I couldn’t bare some “news” and the way they were created.

But I arrived to a point where I don’t know no more why I keep so “angry”, I love my PS3? Yes, do I loved my old NES/Genesis? Hell YES, would I mind to have a Wii and a X360? Damn I would love to have both and play Halo3 and Super Mario Galaxy and so on! I love video-games, it’s my hobby and I’m making of it a nightmare because of this consoles war and speculations, etc…

So I’ll just stop, or even try very very hard to do it, and as me I think you are living a little bit the same situation, you, me and other million gamers, if you don’t agree with me I think it’s a bad sign.

I’m a very proud person, but I know I shoudn’t react the way I did, as you shouldn’t to, I personaly apologise to you if I offended you, and I apologise this site and others where I was to “mean”, about US, I personaly don’t have nothing against America, I guess I used US as an alibi to justify some of my comments, they have their problems has portugal has, or UK or everywhere in the world.

Matt I’d love we could keep talking about games each other, but this time in a friendly ambient, it would be nice if we could drink some bears and laugh a little in a nice barbecue, but I think that would be hard considering distances

I completelly changed my attitude about this “war”, from now on I’ll keep it just fun, has video games are suposed to be.

Cheers.

PS: Sorry my gramatical mystakes, just two years of English in school…

Ups…

Lets drink some BEERS instead of bears…