Xbox 360 Damage Control: Sony PS3’s name good from start
Filed under: Gaming, Xbox 360 | By: Daniel
Posted on: January 11, 2008 | 51 Comments
Following on from Marks post about Bill Gates wanting to make the Xbox 360 the most reliable console, I do not doubt he will make it much better but as I have had the RROD, many of my friends and family and even a blogger in the Joystiq network recently got the Red Ring of Death on a replacement 360…there is a long way to go.
So with replacements getting the RROD, would you not say the 360 has had its named damaged too much?
Many gamers have left the 360 for the Sony PS3, a games console that has had a great name from the start for its hardware (although the 360 chat options and dashboard are better).
With most companies heading the Blu-ray route and people buying the Sony PS3 for home entertainment and for gaming…its win win for the Playstation 3.
I would say a safe bet is that the PS3 is way ahead on odds for a long term win, the 360 would have to bring out its hardware all over again with maybe the rumored “Ultimate 360” to win…but what about the poor current 360 owners who have to have the old one.
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i believe this year is a ps3’s year and maybe more than a year
but unless microsoft got its “blu-ray” add on …it will be a different
situation ..
2008 is definetly going ot be Sony’s BIG year..not that we needed to wait until now to accept that fact. 2007 was the stepping stone, now great things are here.
PS3 is taking 2008, bluray is taking 2008…the 360’s horrible 33% failure rate has destroyed it in every way, and hddvd is finally dead.
So far 2008 has been a great year for Sony.
Does 17.7 Million people tell You anything. compared to what? even the Wii makes the PS3 look stupid. PS3 is a pathetic piece of crap and expensive just to push blue ray
Charles: 17.7 is shipped to stores not sold. and how many of those are replacements. there are 8.96 PS3 out there more than Xbox 360 sold its first year. and look world wide not just America. you have never touched a PS3 by you statements you probably never even seen on turned on. Xbox time is over PS3 will pass it by the end of the year. world wide.
Ignore the’Faboy’rants and game preferences and it comes down to a few basic facts that run true for whatever piece of technology you buy: Quality of build and what it delivers. Sony produced a robust, reliable machine with built in Hi-Def in the form of the Blu-Ray, a reasonable hard drive and wire/less networking. These three come extra with most Xbox 360. You get what you pay for.
Microsoft has a poorly built box and not much more.
Apart from that it’s what games you like that make the difference.
The Wii cannot be compared, Comparing the PS3 to the Wii is like comparing the Ferrari with a dodgem car. The Wii is real fun to play with but it’s a different class of machine.
Yeah PS3 is going to sell a lot in 08 with got the best exclusives Xbox is dying hd dvd beaten by blu ray.
to the guy that posted 360s sales of 17.7 million sales well lets just compare 360 two years released has that number the ps3 has sold 8.9 million consoles wordwide now not that far behing considering came out a full year later and had no games until uncharted and ratchet so u wait to see how much ps3 sales jump over this year they will easilly sell 15 million consoles and overtake the 360
XBOX 360:REST IN PEACE(OR SHOULD I SAY PIECES), you were the console of your time (only because you were the only next gen console AT THAT TIME!)However,your time has come to an END.
GAME OVER 360!
Wow..is this Product Reviews or the I Hump Sony site?
“Many gamers have left the 360 for the Sony PS3, a games console that has had a great name from the start for its hardware (although the 360 chat options and dashboard are better).”
How about some PROOF to back that up?
Most of us actually own both consoles. Sure RROD sucked…but so did the delays and lack of games..plus the lies Kutaragi told (for example….No rumble because it interferes with motion control while a $299 console by Nintendo proves that wrong). Or how about the developers publicly bitching about how impossible it is to develop for it?
The only real console that didnt have any problems besides availability is the Wii.
Xbox 360 is its own worst enemy, the reliability issues, the problems with Xbox live that are not resolved etc. The xbox 360 is a great system for games, but so many people have been burned by the quality. The PS3 has been out a year less then the 360, so of course MS has more games out for it. but that is changing. As Blu-ray has won teh format war, more and more people will be picking it up because it is also a superb Blu-ray player. And there is even a rumor of another price drop, maybe to Us$349 in the summer if the rumors are to be believed. For the value, you cant beat a PS3, and it is cheaper then a fully tricked out xbox 360. The wii? fun little system, but it has no real staying power.