Are you making a Console Switch?

[Artina89]

Last generation I had a PS2, Xbox and a Gamecube, this time around I own a PS3. I don't play online so the recent data leak has not really affected me in any way, but I want to keep my options open for the next generation, see what comes out. I have thought about buying an Xbox 360 as that has "Deadly premonition", one of my favourite games, but at the moment I have neither the money or the inclination to buy a console for one game.

 

[SonOfStayPuft]

A Console Switch? Why would I do that? I'm happy with my touch sensitive Power Button on my 360 Slim!

And that my friends, is me saying Thank you and goodnight!

 

[Twilight_guy]

I buy the Nintendo consoles and I bought a PS3 to get at some of the current gen console games (many of which have no Wii counterparts). I don't have the money or the gumption to buy a 360 since in my mind the PS3 and XBox are identical in many ways. I mostly game on my computer now, for better or worst, because Steam is just easier to use for me. Boo on Sony for not having good security/screw the pouch in public relations but I really don't care enough to change the console that a use a for a handful of games to another I would use for a handful of games.

 

[Castian Blake]

no will do, i have both consoles, with my 4 RROD the 360 turned a brick until they replaced my consoles over and over, with PSN down i still can play my huge collection of rpg's including my present game of Xenogears upscaled to 1080p that i previeously buyed on PSN store.

I can wait the long it takes to fully use PS3 again no problem.
to be sincere i havent turned on my 360 since last year. i only buyed it to play Fable and DoA games, and Fable 3 turned me down on the series and DoA hasn't beign released in a long while.
My main console stilll its and will be for a while the PS2, and all of my JRpg's.

 

[Castian Blake]

no will do, i have both consoles, with my 4 RROD the 360 turned a brick until they replaced my consoles over and over, with PSN down i still can play my huge collection of rpg's including my present game of Xenogears upscaled to 1080p that i previeously buyed on PSN store.

I can wait the long it takes to fully use PS3 again no problem.
to be sincere i havent turned on my 360 since last year. i only buyed it to play Fable and DoA games, and Fable 3 turned me down on the series and DoA hasn't beign released in a long while.
My main console stilll its and will be for a while the PS2, and all of my JRpg's.

EDITED : for a reason i didin't understanded i double posted, plz delete me

 

[Vault101]

Ive always thourght abotu getting a conole...

but it just doesnt seem worth it

 

[Gaiseric]

I don't understand the arrogance thing you have against Sony(serious, I'm clueless ).

OT: No, I'm not switching. I've been paying attention to the 360s line up(past and present) and I've never seen enough to warrant the money. I could count the 360 exclusives on one hand that interest me and one isn't out yet(not bashing, just my own personal taste). The Wii has even less that interests me. And the PC, well I recently just spend $400 on a laptop and there is no way I'm going to spend even more for a rig that can play most games on decent settings.

 

[Xerosch]

Nope. I'm not at all excited about the data breach but I've invested far too much money in my PS3 game collection to abandon the black box. The only thing I will change is removing my credit card from the PSN Store and switch to prepaid cards.

 

[aaronobst]

Generally it's a PC for multiplats and PS3 for exclusives

The 360 has nothing to offer me besides space power rangers

 

[DarksideFlame]

Nah, don't think I'll do that unless the PS3 stops working or there are a lot of games I want to play that will only be available for the 360

 

[Waaghpowa]

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I was more referring to the fact that Mass Effect 1 and 2 are both on PC.

 

[ZeZZZZevy]

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I can't say much on the original pricing of the 360, but when I bought it it was much more cost efficient. And remember that hard drives meant different things for each console. It was mandatory to install the game on the PS3, whereas this was not so on the 360, so the hard drive didn't need to be nearly as large. Also remember that the 360 came out a full year before the PS3, and was priced more competitively once it had decent competition. Blu-ray also wasn't the dominant format at that time, so stating that the PS3 had blu-ray really didn't mean anything at that period of time. (even today, unless you are looking for a blu-ray player, the difference is fairly minor)

You also seem to think that exclusives are the only way to judge a console's game library. This really isn't true. Maybe the exclusives are more diverse on the PS3, but the whole libraries of both were rather diverse, meaning that they equally appealed to around the same market of gamers. If you remember, cross-platform games tended to work better on the 360, as it hasn't been until recently that developers really worked out all the kinks between the two. The 360 has always been simply easier to develop for.

If you want to believe in metacritic that's fine, I just take their scores with a large grain of salt. (I didn't dismiss it either, I simply stated you shouldn't use metacritic scores as the sole judge of a game's quality)

as for the rest of your post, a lot of that is extremely subjective. I moved from the ps2 to the 360 controller fine, so maybe you have a different preference, I'm not sure. As for online, you're probably the first person I've seen that said that XboxLive was inferior to PSN, so again, maybe you like something different. Maybe the 360 exclusives didn't appeal to you (most of them are shooters, maybe that's not your thing?), but to anyone who is a fan of shooters, the 360 had more. Shooters have an extremely large market, which partially lead to the success of the 360.

Again, it all comes down to your preferences. By the sound of it, you weren't the targeted market for the 360, and as you said, you're anti-xbox, so you're always going to think that the 360 is crap, no matter what I say to defend it. Honestly I think the consoles are equally good, and (at this point) evenly priced. (I'm using the base prices for the sole reason that not everyone will get the same extra stuff, so even if you get everything, and that happens to be more expensive, it's not a general case scenario) At this point any further argument is just subjective differences. (and besides, I'm tired of typing walls of text, so can we just agree to disagree here?)

 

[Adam Galli]

Over the past few years I've switched I went from Nintendo to Sony to Microsoft. I'm happy with my 360 and I'm mostly satisified with XBL so I don't plan to make a switch back to Sony anytime in the forseeable future. However, if I find myself with some extra disposable income I might conisder getting a PS3 or whatever their next console is.