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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Ok there is Also one more thing about the bluray over microsoft hd dvd battle i personally don’t care about both formats but microsoft download is a much better deal because i just got educated on the price of these movies and regular dvd is expensive. do people really buy movies. what is the point once you’ve seen it are you really going to watch it again? i either go to the movies or rent or on demand. so digital distribution makes way more sense. i downloaded the condemned in HD the other day from xbox live and it looked great. the new formats are a waist of time and money
Charles,you sound rather ignorant. first of all, the 5gb installation of dmc4 onto the hdd is to eliminate any loading screens throughout the game.which the xbox360 couldn’t have because not all of xbox360s have hdd. So no,its not lame it’s actually pretty cool that you dont have loading times.And digital distribution is so far away from being publicly accepted.There are so many problems trying to have that as mainstream, for one, not everyone has a decent connection to download a full hd movie which holds very big sizes.HDDs, how many HD movies can you possibly download to a HDD, even if it is in terabytes, it would be too expensive for mainstream.AND not everyone is tech savvy enough to know how digital distribution works so to have digital distribution would sound very absurd to the average joe in our time.Sure you may not see the point in buying a movie. But
the blu-ray sales beg to differ and dont even get me started for dvd. and No wifi and ethernet would have absolutely no difference if there isnt any solid wall blocking the way even so,the ps3 also has an ethernet port whereas xbox360 doesn’t give you that option. you have to PAY for it.AND even with a wired connection.you still dont get dedicated servers and rely heavily on other user’s internet speed to get a decent game going on.AND you PAY FOR IT.the ps3 online,is free and it has dedicated servers.Sure it lacks the appeal compared to xbox live right now but at least it’s stable.And what stops it from growing?Face it,Microsoft nickle and dime their customers,hd dvd add-on,wifi,hdds,xbox live, sure i like the xbox360,but when you start bashing blindly like that,somebody ought to set you straight
This site has become a shelter for Sony fanboys in denial, leave facts behind all ye who enter here for this site is for Sony dreamers only.
@ paul it seems to me that it it is more of a catalyst fer all you fanatical xbox fanboys to take out your aggregation’s. Leave facts behind is that the code to let your yer other fanatical buddies to come out here and spread more BS about both systems.
Gamers are leaveing xbox because it was not the best console. Microsoft is stuped, i only say that because a guy like bill gates on your side, i expect the ultimate system. I was thinking this for last generaion and and up getting the xbox 1. Xbox 1 was crap and had no games. xbox 360 pushed out all it good exclusive in the begining this time so gamer would look at PS3 as a failure and now has nothing to show. PS3 is the boss and always has been. People were saying PS3 had no games but that was becasue they where hating on PS3 and other gam,ers wish ed they had it. PS3 had lots of good exclusive in it first year. Like resistence, motorstorm, ratchet future tools….., uncharted, warhawk, hevenly sword, and much more. It was almost competeing with xbox exclusives even though that was sopost to be 360’s strong year. 2008 for PS3 will pretty much be a repeat of the PS2 to the gamecube and xbox 1. PS3 is on top because it had and will have more and way better games. PS3 big exclusive nvr even came out yet and it still selling console and 2008 is now so stop saying next year. 2008 is this year.
O ya Charles, Downloading movies will not be the meothod of watch movies anytime soon, they would need to develop HD with 10 Tyra byits of space to even cosider it. movies and especially HD movies are really big and xbox 360 certainly isnt going to make that possible, the bigest HD u can get is 120gb. And blu-ray and HD dvd, xboxers care if HD dvd suck because it prove xbox chose the wrong formate and didnt even atempt to us HD for games. PS3 has use blu- ray for games and it has worked really well and blu- ray is makeing games way better and longer and better looking. If xbox 360 goes blu-ray to it shows they are imitator, and just copy. EVen the xbox 1 was a copy of dreamcast. Microsoft suckes and just copy. They copied HDMI port off PS3, They copied The home button of the PSP, and they copied the xbox 360 look for those old Dell PC’s. They even copied the contoller from the dreamcast controller. They are even considering haveing six axis controllers. microsoft just copies and they dont even do a good job at it.
@myself
You’ve just proved what a fanboy you are by jumping to the conclusion that i’m an xbox fanboy even though i stated no preference and don’t even own a current generation console, infact it is the kind of fanboys that hang around this shill site that have put me off buying one this gen, you give gaming a bad name.
“Microsoft is stuped”
Hows that for irony?
Ok man well you may not have said I am a Xbox fan but you were clearly attacking on side of the spectrum witch pretty much clearly means that you are in support of the other side. know that being said if you are pathetic enough to let these little back and forth rants affect how you are going to spend your cash well I could honestly care a bit less. but be that as it may I apologize for making assumptions maybe next though you should stay out of the fight if you are not on a side that way people don’t make assumptions.
As far as i know i’m allowed to have opinions without actually owning a console, your allowed to jump to conclusions and i’m allowed to point them out, it’s a free world or so i’m told.
I find it a bit sad that you talk about “sides” and staying out of the “fight” i know it’s a bit a bit silly but all this type of fanboyism has genuinely put me off buying a console this time round, it’s added a stigma to owning one.