What would make an Xbox 360 owner move to Sony PS3?
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3, Xbox 360 | By: Daniel
Posted on: March 25, 2008 | 75 Comments
With prices of the Xbox 360 and Sony PS3 being very close, currently the Playstation 3 is known to have the much better hardware but not the better choice of games.
What would make an Xbox 360 owner move to Sony PS3?
For thousands of people world-wide the answer was simply “RROD”, the hardware was so unreliable that many 360 owners went and brought a PS3 for better hardware and less games (in the hope for more in time).
Now the sides are even:
The Xbox 360’s hardware seems to be much more reliable now with hardly any reports of RROD, so it seems Microsoft have fixed this issue.
The Sony PS3 has not only won the High Definition movie war, but 2008 will see them increase the games collection massively, while it will still not be as good as the Xbox 360 in games collection, it will have more games than you have time to play.
The Xbox 360 has more gamers, so what would make an Xbox 360 owner move to Sony PS3?
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I now have all 3 of the next gen consoles. If you call the Wii a next gen console! So what is my gaming pleasure you ask and why did I get a PS3 when I already had a 369 and a Wii. First I will start with the Wii…..it was purchased for my son of 5 years old. The game content just made sense for him. I did play it for or five games that interested me and well. They were not only inferior but they were not enough to keep me interested in it. With the exception of Darts, I have found very fun; I do not play the Wii without my son. Now I have an interest in real darts and the game is nothing like the real thing. Anyway I digress. Why did I get a PS3 when I already had a 360? I was one of the many that had issues with the quality of the hardware. I actually had to return my first two systems. The unit I have now works without issue but the fan unit is amazingly loud. My PC ha3 an amazing fan system made of copper(after market) and is about half the noise output and 3 times the processing power. Beyond the quality I purchased the PS3 for the technology. The Blu-ray drive is a major plus if you want to showcase your HDTV. Now I could have purchased an HD DVD player for the same results to showcase my HDTV but I was smart enough to know that studio support would be the key to a format winning the war and so the PS3 just made sense. As we know Toshiba does own any content. Sony has friends in Hollywood and in the end that was the deciding factor (studio support could have been Sonys influence over its peers but that is unclear). But did I buy the PS3 for the future of console gaming I think that is the question many would like to know. The answer is yes. I want to play GTA on the PS3 the PS2 made this franchise and I feel some level of allegiance to Sony for making the game great. They not only provided the platform (PS2) but more then that the 50+ million systems at the time to ensure this game was successful. At this point the variety of gaming available now, the games to come, and the potential of the system is worth every penny. You may as well invest in the future of gaming and have a console that will last for the next 5+ years. MS will kill the 360 with a new console in 2011 and you will need to start all over. I figure I should start now and enjoy the long life I enjoyed with the PS2.
Because developers are now learning how to program better for the PS3 to utilize its potential, the PS3 has free online gaming, can stream video to its handheld buddy PSP, and blu-ray has smashed the competition which gives sony the home entertainment win hands down. Not much talk is about the wii, because we all know the wii is in no comparison to either of these systems. It’s just the cheaper way to go if you just want to play a game, not the way to go if you want a real gaming experience. Much like it’s becoming for the xbox 360, so xbox 360 owners will begin to see that and want to play beyond; thus, purchase a PS3 entertainment system.
I own a 360 but if I get a PS3 it won’t be because I’m moving over but in addition to my existing console. At present the PS3 is still overpriced, I don’t want Blu-Ray drive and there isn’t one game I want that isn’t available on the 360. I will get a PS3 but only when the price drops, the machine is smaller and lighter, there’s a decent range of game exclusives and when it comes with a dual shock controller. I’m not here to line Sony’s pockets and support Blu-Ray until there’s something in it for me.
i’m another fortunate person to own all 3 systems. Why do people bash the wii saying its not next gen?
surely it’s the different experience that makes t truly next gen! granted that the fact it looks so blurry after xbox 360 and ps3, but mario galaxy is simply stunning and so is ssbb.
the ps3 is amazing for a media centre. i stream my music through the ps3 cos’ i find media center on the 360 tedious to use and the blu ray player is really good. blu rays at £20 a go are too expensive though so its worth just renting.
The Xbox 360 is where the majority of my gaming is don as the ps3 with exception of the multi platform releases has no games that i want to play. i did buy heavenly sword and that was okay. Thr controller on the ps3 after using the 360 is very uncomfortable.
since owning a 360 on launch day i have unfortunatly experienced the rrod but only once and it seemed like forever before i got my console back.
The 360 is also loud but when you playing with a kick ass surround system and put the volume on to a normal level then you rely cant hear it. The poeple complaining of the noise must be playing on mute or something.
games wise the 360 wins hands down, i own 20+ games for the system and paying for live is no problem, its a fiver a month. I soend more on newspapers a month than that. The ps3 online at the moment for games is okay, the online store is crap and nothing like xbl marketplace which is a joy to use and so much quicker. putting the ps3 store on a web page like it is just makes it tedious and makes it look cheap and nasty when it shouldnt be. overall i cant see my attention be changed from the 360 to the ps3 untl final fantasy comes out. Ive never realy cared for mgs and i dont hold any hope for killzone 2 cos if any of you played the first one, then youd know why
well no the ps3 has beaten the xbox360 in hardwear and in bluray but now the ps3 has a wirelass controlls like the wii and better u can go 3d go around stuff like that better sensers so its more accuret so pretty soon it will beat the other 2 councle out of the water easily i ohh and the people that say the ps3 is expencive then the ps3 ur dumb 1 year u got to pay $50 and u have to buy the cooling system u have to download somthing to play xbox games im sorry but ur a fool who thinks the ps3 is expencive there is 1 more thing i upgraded my ps3 60gb to 160gb with only $70 very easy to change it took me 2 min nothing else sorry 1 more thing there is going to be more exclusive games for the ps3 ok im done please correct me if im wronge on any of this
sorry i was in a hurry i ment to say if people think that the ps3 is more expensive then the xbox360 and im really likin that there will be a game with 264 players online called MAG
I totally agree with buncey, I think gamers want the best experience and while the Wii has poor graphics it still offers great gaming. There will always be fanboys but most gamers I know own, or want to own, all three consoles but the PS3 will gather dust for the moment. The 360 is damn loud though, those fans drive me nuts.
Is too risky to get a Xbox 360 it has a massive %33 failure rate nothing that next gen still uses DVD Xbox Live is just lag too much and 2many cheaters. PLAYSTATION 3 is the only must have gaming system is the only true next gen super high tech machine.
r u stupid xbox live doesnt lag at all im no fanboy because i got the rrod and i have to say microsoft cheated everyone who bought a xbox im thinking about going to ps3 but its expensive anyways XBOX LIVE DOESNT LAG AT ALL UNLESS YOU HAVE ALOT OF PEOPLE IN THE SERVER WHICH ISNT OFTEN
“What would make an Xbox 360 owner move to Sony PS3?”
Absolutely nothing!!!
P.S Well maybe a £10,000 cash bribe
Have you been reading ny of the posts above this?
I thought not.
I honestly cant say my PS3 purchase has been a happy one and Im selling it and considering an Xbox 360.
The PS3 games are pretty average in quality, the range of selection is poor and they are way too expensive. The graphics is not as good as claimed - It’s certainly not as good as my PC and I can’t see the difference between Xbox 360 & PS3 - they are on par. The Xbox 360 versions are more available and on sale with a better price. Thats why I am making the switch. Pricing of games is important to me and I want a better selection. Xbox 360 also has better exclusives although there is more overlap with my PC.
just keep in mind your xbox will have rrod for sure in the futur if xbox did an experiment where they left 1000 xbox 360s on at the same time for 1 year for 3 hours a day i garauntee every one of them would have rrod the point is people are saying the rrod failur rate is 33% thats because the other 77% arnt gamers that stay on alot which is basicly the only point of xbox im just saying this because i wish i had boughtn a ps3 and i didnt well it probably doesnt matter anymore because this post is like a year old and you probably have rrod have fun talking to annoying indian microsoft bitchs
Ivan_PSP - that’s such a fanboy comment and not really what the article is about.
i own all 3 systems too i only touch my wii when i play with friends and family my ps3 is the most played i have now stared to but multplat games for the ps3 bo paradise cod 4 because they run better on ps3 imo but i think xbox live is better than psn
imo they all have their strenghs and waknesses
ps3:good: future potential bad:psn is lacking
360: good:online: bad: rrod-loud fan
wii:good:fun bad: boring on your own