Poll: 360 or not

[thatstheguy]

I have 700 bucks in Christmas money at my disposal. I've kind of had thoughts in the back of my mind telling me to get an Xbox 360. Though I'm not entirely sure If I should. What Do you guys think

Edit: I guess I didn't make myself clear. I want to ask because I'm not sure if it's worth it as this console generation is already halfway through.

 

[Aiden Rebirth]

do it!

 

[SneakyBawls]

Well do more of your friends own a 360 or a PS3? Plus do you ever care to enter the blu-ray player arena? I went through the same decision not long ago. I eventually went with the 360 since I've always liked Xbox's online as opposed to Playstation's. Plus my brothers had a 360 so I was able to hook up with them online. Also I wanted a seperate blu-ray player than an integrated on on a console but that was just me. As far as games that are exclusive to one or the other, I felt it was a toss up since most eventually cross the street to the other eventually....aside from Halo I guess. LOL Besides 'Only on PS3'...or 'Only on Xbox 360'...they pretty much all end up on PC regardless. But that's just me...

 

[bad rider]

Fanboys attack now, while hes unaware!

 

[bad rider]

I think you're much better off putting that money into the stock market. With the current depression, you could buy into some real high profile companies cheap and make thousands.

Your assuming their will be a recovery, if china decides it wants its money back and foreign investors leave the west will fall. All hail our eastern overlords!

 

[thatstheguy]

If thats the case you'll lose everything, including your Xbox.

Well, now I'm really confused on what to do.

 

[bad rider]

I think you're much better off putting that money into the stock market. With the current depression, you could buy into some real high profile companies cheap and make thousands.

Your assuming their will be a recovery, if china decides it wants its money back and foreign investors leave the west will fall. All hail our eastern overlords!

If thats the case you'll lose everything, including your Xbox.

Meh, I use it far too much anyways.

Edit: Wait how did thatstheguy respond before you posted?

 

[Birras]

Well, from my point of view, the 360 is a fairly good console so long as you can take care of it (Don't stand it upright, keep it off carpet, and don't put a cookie into the disc tray are the best bits of advice I can give you). The PS3, while having potential, is lackluster when it comes to exclusives, as quite a few big-name exclusives quickly became multiconsole. The PS3, however, functions also as a blu-ray player and, to my knowledge, is cheaper than most blu-ray players, in case you're interseted in that sort of thing. The Wii's controls, while interesting and innovative, swiftly lead to aching arms such as in Red Steel or CoD 3 in which you must point directly at the screen at all time. However, the Wii has the strongest catolog of older games with the Wii marketplace selling damn-near every game to come out for a Nintendo console and even a few Genisis titles. Technically, the 360 is the cheapest with the crappy Arcade package, even though the Pro package would be better with HD cables, a remote, a hard drive, a LIVE headset and more free Xbox LIVE time than the Arcade. Oh, I almost forgot to mention the online functions of each. 360's Xbox LIVE is definetly the strongest in my humble opinion because a)Noone seems to be online in Playstation Network, so you have movie renting, a service provided by Xbox LIVE, and a Second Life knockoff, and b)There is only one game in the Wii's game library with voice capabilities, and all that freind code stuff means you can only play with freinds and people you meet on forums giving you their freind codes. That is, however, one man's opinion

P.S. Sorry for text wall

 

[thatstheguy]

and don't put a cookie into the disc tray are the best bits of advice I can give you).

(sarcastic voice) What! Why did you think I wanted it?

 

[Jamash]

Your doubts are correct, as this generation of consoles is halfway finished, you'll hardly have time to unwrap your 360 and play your 1st game before they bring out the next generation of consoles, which have been all over the news for months.

Any minute now all the cool kids will be playing their new Z-Cubes and PS4's, while you'll be left behind with your prehistoric X-box 360, Granddad. [/sarcasm]

Do you want the console to so you can actually play games that you like, or do you just want the latest console to be cool and keep up with the trend?

If you want it to play games, then get one, since there's plenty of good, enjoyable games out there already, and plenty more in the future.

If you're actually worried about the generation being halfway finished, then I suppose you could wait until 2013 to but a new console if you really want, but I wouldn't recommend it, you'll miss out on a lot of fun gaming.

 

[Fronken]

The 360 is a good console, no doubt about it, but i still voted no, why?, cause with that much money you can buy much better stuff, stuff that actually improves your life in the long run, but that might just be my oppinion seeing as i myself dont really like new-school gaming.

 

[DeusFps]

Buy a new pc and do some real gaming!

 

[PirateKing]

In my opinion, the 360 is the best console right now. It has the best original games and cross platform games play better on the 360. Those shoulder triggers on the PS3 controller are a joke.

 

[Twilight_guy]

I can see fanboys... fanboys everywhere! Run!

Really though, It depends on if you are happy with the systems you have, if there are any games you want for the system, and if that 700 bucks is worth more if you buy games, the 360 or something else entirely (like maybe a couch, a labtop, an ipod, etc.). Don't let your money burn a hole in your pocket, saving it and consider your options is important. You're not going to have 700 bucks to spend again for a while... probably.

 

[intergral]

if you don't have a PS3 and/or don't want to spend 500.00 on one, buy a 360. Luckily, my family is 'white' enough to own all three super consoles. (lol) So with playing them all I, personally, prefer the 360 over the PS3. It has great games and is a solid piece of hardware. My only qualm is the fact you have to pay for accessing online content. Other than that, it's pretty sweet!

 

[bad rider]

The PS3, while having potential, is lackluster when it comes to exclusives, as quite a few big-name exclusives quickly became multiconsole.

Whats it like living in 2007?

Singstar, Buzz quiz tv, everybodys golf ?
Do we really count these as games... Also i wouldn't count grand turismo as a game, its a pay for demo.
But yeah I gotta agree with you the ps3 has a good choice in exclusives, and the xbox 360 dosen't have that many great titles for the future.

Ps I'm pretty sure the review dosen't take into account all exclusive. I'll source evidence for my feeling within a day.

 

[dcheppy]

Easy Choice if you're deciding between PS3 and 360.

If you want a Blu-Ray Player: PS3

If you don't want to spend a lot of money: 360

Everything else is essentially equal. There are other differences that are fairly insignificant. PS3 is higher quality hardware with more bells and whistles like a Blu-ray player, slots for all kinds of memory cards, built in wireless, free online. The 360 is cheaper.

Exclusives are about equal: Resistance 2 is as good as, not better than Gears 2 or Halo 3, MGS4 is awesome and so is LBP, but so is Left 4 Dead and Fable II and you can't have both.

EDIT: To answer the OP, yeah you should definitely get one especially if you have an HDTV.

 

[bad rider]

The PS3, while having potential, is lackluster when it comes to exclusives, as quite a few big-name exclusives quickly became multiconsole.

Whats it like living in 2007?

Singstar, Buzz quiz tv, everybodys golf ?
Do we really count these as games... Also i wouldn't count grand turismo as a game, its a pay for demo.
But yeah I gotta agree with you the ps3 has a good choice in exclusives, and the xbox 360 dosen't have that many great titles for the future.

Ps I'm pretty sure the review dosen't take into account all exclusive. I'll source evidence for my feeling within a day.

Considering the high scores all four got, its fair to count them as games. Hell, what makes Guitar Hero a valid game but Singstar not? What makes Fifa 09 a valid game but Everybodies Golf not? Have you ever tried any of them?

That list takes into account Exclusives that scored above a 7.5 - i.e., those that are deemed worth your time. And I'd like to point out how the average score is also a fair bit higher for the Ps3.

To be honest they were just my opinions, but for the hell of it sing star is more overglorified karaoke less fun new and innovative and yes what does make fifa 09 a valid game? Seriously they sell the same thing each year.

Edit: Also I wouldn't take Ign as thorough reviewer i'd take an average between scores from several reliable scores. In any case an exclusive is an exclusive saying something scored highly dosen't make it a good game that YOU will enjoy.

 

[Space Spoons]

The console generation's half through. At this point, I'd say just wait for the next big console and hope for backwards compatibility to pick up everything you missed out on this generation. If that console turns out to suck, at least 360's/PS3's will be dirt cheap.

 

[Dragonrabbit]

Personally I'd use it to work on building a good PC rig for gaming, just about every game you would want to play on the 360 is on PC and more.
Plus, in my experiance PC gaming is more satisfying and more fun overall, just an opinion though.