Well I'm thinking about getting one of the 2 to play GTA IV. I don't feel like waiting for it to come out for PC (if it even does..) so I wanna get an Xbox 360 or PS3 but im wondering what some of the benefits are of each one and which one would be better to go with. With the PS3 I noticed its got 2 USB ports in front, would it be possible to hook a keyboard up to it and a mouse and be able to game with a mouse and keyboard?

More of us have 360's...

360s are cheaper and have more games.

PS3s have free online play and a bit better graphics.

wouldn't trade my 360 for a PS3 though... online play for 360 is like 50 bucks for 13 months.

Go PS3

Go PS3

Is the PS3 online free? (Ability to play against others in games free or is there a charge?)

Go 360, more people play xbox live, plus Halo isnt on PS3

Yea, said that in my first post. :p

PS3 has built in Blueray no additional hardware. GT5 prologue is on the streets with a full release to follow plus a new offroad game called Baja is coming out in august it's similar to GT but crosscountry racing. The main event is the Baja 1000. It's a four hour race with no repeat territory so no mind numbing laps. No pause either lol if you need a break you tell the AI to run for you. Online play is free. My boys and I have been playing the snot out of COD4.

PS you can run periferals such as keyboard and mice the shooter games are even written for their use if you so wish.

Just an FYI, but the 360 has 3 USB ports. One on the back where a wifi network adapter can plug in, and 2 on the front for controllers to recharge. I don't think the 360 USB ports support keyboards or mouse though, but I could be wrong.

I got a 360 because it's what all my friends have and I wanted to be able to play against them. What fun is a video game console where you just play by yourself?

the 360 usb does support keyboard, i use mine all the time.

yeah i have a xbox 360,2 of em actually lol elite and core.....gta IV is the shiznip

Oh PS3 has Wifi built in no adapter And blue tooth as well. For a headset you can buy a cheap bluetooth headset for cell phones and use that for chat. Plus my son figuered out how to play the PS3 on his PSP.

Thats called Remote Play or something, its basically the PSP is the remote for the PS3.


Sorry, just thought i'd clarify cause when I read that I thought you meant the PSP can emulate PS3. The PSP can't even emulate PS2 so...

Hercman, tell your son to check out psp-hacks.com, their is a ton of stuff the PSP can do with custom firmware.

Actually the 60Gigs (good luck finding one must buy used) and th 80 gigs PS3s are backwards compatable. But iirc the 80s aren't sold right now cause they are coming out with a 100+

still id go xbox 360...considering i have 3 xboxes,and 2 360s lol

But yep 360 has way more games available for it.

PS3 is very versatile. i have ubuntu linux on mine, i can use mine as a media server i can play blueray i can use bluetooth. games and movies can play in full 1080p (360 cant). 360 is just inferior and harder to use if you like having multiple functions, the ps3 is perfect if you use it for more then just games. game wise the systems are about equal, PS3 has more potential...

It's been out a lot longer, so it should. And even with it having been out longer, it's have a much higher failure rate.

I believe That's more due to the fact that Microsoft farmed out the production to flood the market then to producing themselves and maintaining quality.

get the cheaper PS3 better graffics if you have a nice tv free internet play (iknow paying for 360 isnt that much of a deal) but with a blueray built in how could you go wrong blue ray players are so expensive as it is and the HD dvd player for 360 is like 80 bucs as well

And HD is on the outs so Xbox is making a blue ray.

Yep the $50 a year could go to the purchase of a new game lol.

Last I heard the 360 and PS3 had about the same failure rate. I dont know if its true, none of my friends have PS3.

Rockstar is currently has new downloadable content in the works for the 360 version. I'm sure they will bring it out for PS3, but I havent heard when. The PS3 version of GTA has had some major glitching problems, so much so Rockstar had to release a patch to fix it.

I ended up getting the PS3 tonight. I bought GTA IV for it and am very glad I went with the PS3. The Online works great and flawlessly and i dont have to pay for it like i woulda had to with Xbox live. No complaints so far and everything runs great.

I haven't heard failures in PS3s since they first came out. That was fixed with a simple download. I don't think they've had anything to compare with the frequent RROD or whatever it's called with the 360.

I could be wrong, though. But I'm pretty sure they are much more reliable.

as a person that works in the video game retail industry i have to deal with this question about 15 time a day if not more. there are advantages to both systems and draw backs to both. with the PS3 you get the only free to upgrade Blu-Ray player on the market. You also get the most powerful home console ever built the only problem with that is developers are still having a hard time creating titles that use the resources of the PS3 and because of that if you compare games that are on both systems you will find that on the 360 the games support a higher resolution and frame rate. you also get free to play online but remember you get what you pay for there haven't been to many problems yet with playstation online but thats because they really don't have very many games that have alot of online players they have COD 4, GTA4 and Unreal Tournament III and that is about it for the big games once more start to get released then your going to notice some serious down time and lag on the servers esp. when resistance 2 comes out. now with X box live you have to pay to play if you buy 1 month its 7.99 if you buy 3 months its $6.66 a month and if you buy the 12+1 month cards its $3.85 a month but since Microsoft uses most of the money they make selling subscriptions to constantly update and improve the network you get a more reliable online experience. case in point on COD4 when they released the new maps they had one of the largest spikes known to Xbox live there were over 400,000 players online at the same moment trying to download the maps well needless to say the servers crashed and pissed alot of people off by the next day less then 24 hours later the servers were back up and running with no lag and no real problems still with the 400,000 people online. now with the PS3 every once in a while i have noticed that the servers go down for several days or at least they do in my area because we get a huge influx of phone calls from people asking whats wrong with their ps3 because they cant get online to play. in my eyes they are both great systems but the choice boils down to one question do you want to play games or watch movies. if you want to play games the 360 is the way to go if you want to watch movies then the PS3 is the way to go. the reason i say that is for now the libary of games on the 360 is alot higher in number then the ps3 and except for a few titles such as resistance, heavenly sword, metal gear, final fantasy, and uncharted most of the games on the ps3 are on the 360 as well. now for the reliability issues with the 360 to be honest the problem really isn't as big as most people set it out to be what made the RROD issue so big was Halo 3. a few months before Halo 3 was released sales of halo and halo 2 skyrocketed and more and more people were playing marathon gaming sessions lasting 8-10 hours locked in small rooms with little to no air flow now if there is one thing that the 360 doesn't like is hot air so the systems started to over heat. now here is wear part of the blame falls on Microsoft they decided to use aluminum to solder the chipsets to the system well it turns out the the melting point of the solder was lower then the emergency shut off temp of the chips so the solder started mealting and cause shorts thus the RROD what made that such a bug issue was the fact that 100-200 thousand xboxs died in the same month. well there were backups in repairs so Microsoft again took a short cut and instead of fixing the problem they just repaired the system and sent it back well halo 3 released and once again marathon sessions and the same systems got sent back now i know from first had experience how frustrating this can be because believe me or not i am on my 5th 360 and its getting repaired as im typing this. but at least Microsoft extended their warranty to 3 years to cover the RROD. and as for PS3's not breaking ha the reason its not as well talked about is because there are only a handful in homes compared to the 360 the main problems with the ps3 are hard drive failure and GPU failure.

I have yet to see the server go down and the boys and I play COD4 probably a good three hours a day.

And if the RROD/reliability isn't that big of an issue then why are you on your 5th and why is it getting repaired? You seem to know the cause but yet...

I know MS will repair it for the next three years but it's a pain to have to send it in wait for it to get fixed and mailed back.

I had to do that with Rockband because the dang bass pedal broke. Had to call in tell em what happened then I had to wait two weeks for the letter with the prepaid postage to ship it then I had to find a box cause I had to send everything not just the drums or just the pedal (lucky I still had the box) then drop it off at UPS then wait another two weeks for a dang gift card to go pick up another rockband set. Which because taxes have increased here I ended up paying an extra $2.50 for grrrrrr......

360 can remotely connect to anything that supports Microsoft's Home Media Center. Wirelessly, if you're set up for it.

And general statistics show that most games run and look better on 360, not PS3, so I'm disagreeing with whoever posted that.

You can get a wireless headset for 360 too, so that's a moot argument.

More people on Live, more games, get a 360.

Not an expensive DVD player.

And dammit, you can harp on that RRoD all you want Herc, it makes you look like a Harpy waiting to swoop in at the first sign of something going wrong, when in reality, your precious PS3s are just as prone to failure. Sony just never admitted it and they're not as popular nor do they have as many big-hit games, so it doesn't get the publicity that the 360 does.

At least Microsoft is willing to identify and fix their mistakes at NO COST to the consumer.

So point it out all you want. If you can't go for week without a console, there's something wrong with you anyway. They send you a new console and a free month of Live, no matter what you send your Box in for.

For the money, support, community and games, 360 FAR outclasses the PS3 as it stands right now.

It may change in the future, but that's how it is right now in this moment in time.

Go ahead and nitpick the 360 like you always do, your complaints about it are minor indeed. I'll just link to the gamer thread if you want, all the argument anyone could ever need is in there, so don't waste your time.

A little edgey today? I'm sorry if your precious game console is being questioned but get over it.

I was only pointing out that Jeremy says it's not a big deal but yet he's on his 5th which is in getting repairs.

So either he's doing something wrong or there is a problem.

I have nothing against the 360 and actually want to get one. Like I said in another thread the only reason I went PS3 was the built in BR.

For what it's worth, I have had my 360 for about 6 months now and have not had any hardware issues with it. Granted, I only play about 1 hour per day, but maybe I'm lucky.

My boss got one the night they came out, and he has never had a RROD..

Honestly it took me around 2 hours to set the media center link up with my friend's 360. you have to download some BS program that tries to connect with the 360 and takes over a half hour to load. then you have to copy files into a special folder just to get it to work. the streaming is ridiculously slow and video and audio don't match up.

On the PS3, all you do is start the server on your PC and the PS3 auto-detects the media server and plays ***ANY*** media on your computer whether it be pictures, video, or music. all the files can be copied to the PS3 hard drive. Couldn't be easier.

360 is a good gaming machine, but thats about it. It isnt a media center or anything other then just a gaming console

Shut it, hypocrite, you do the same thing, and I expected this response from you because I see it all the time when YOUR precious console isn't getting all the hype YOU think it deserves.

So bite me.

You can't take it when yours is questioned either, obviously, so don't be a dillhole. I even said that I was a Sony fan, but you obviously ignore what you want so you say things that don't make a damn bit of sense or take into consideration anything that wouldn't make your two-bit argument less valid than it already is.

You harp on everything that's wrong with something, never have ANYTHING good to say about it, and then when someone calls you on it and points it out, defending themselves AS WELL AS GIVING CREDIT to the other side, you keep having that stick in your ass. You say you want a 360 but all you do is bash it. Your defense needs work.

It's absolutely no-win with you, on anything. Not just this, I've seen it's pretty much your attitude with anything on here. Your way or the highway, everytime. And your negativity towards Lone in his switch thread should make you happy that the admins aren't around to take you out of power because your attitude sucks.

And yes, so does mine, but it hasn't until now, mostly because I'm sick of the stupidass crap on this site that has cropped up recently. Your BS behavior that everyone tolerates has only gotten worse, so .. bleh2u. I'm also not a mod and not an official representative of a community.

So yeah. Go ahead and harp on me now, you don't know crap about me. Austin, T-Bat, Slick, all the other people that have met me multiple times know that I won't flip out like this for good reason.

But I'm just an internet entity to you.

But back on the subject. You started an argument that didn't need arguing. You said yourself you bought it for BR.

This guy wants a console for games.

360.

THREAD F*CKING OVER.

Lock it, because you know you want to.

If you want a media center, for whatever it's freaking good for in the first place, use a computer.

For the life of me I don't understand why anyone would buy another 300-700 dollar gaming system to play music and movies from their computer when other options are far cheaper.

And LOL AT YOU.

They ARE gaming consoles. That is their primary purpose.

"JUST a gaming console", lol. Wow.

Holy crap people need to chill out. It's just video games.

EDIT: I re-read Herc's posts in the toggle switch thread and I don't see anything wrong with what he posted.

Sorry Arx.

Holy S#!T balls. Good thing this isn't a thread about politics and what a horroible choice Obama is... but my son has an X-Box as well as a 360. I just bought the PS3 for christmas mainly for the Blue Ray player. I have been a Ps fan since their inception. So i reckon i'm biased.

wow.

I regret starting this thread to begin with, it just started out with me wondering which one would suit me best lol, i didnt want it to become an argument.

colecovision FTW!!!!!