Should I get a 360 or a PS3?

[Halo Fanboy]

What about the failure rate of the early models? It's not like I can warranty a used console, and both systems had a greater-than-50% failure rate for nearly a year.

Don't buy used. Tons of people use temporary measures to fix Yellow light/red ring and then trade in the console.

If I was you I'd buy a 360. But only a Japan region 360. If your curious about why, look up the developers Cave and G.rev.

 

[cgmetallica1981]

I've got both Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, and I prefer the 360 because thats where my friends are at. Honestly though, the 360 doesn't have much going for it other than online. Also, multi-platform games usually play better on the 360. PS3 has quality games and better exclusives, free, but buggy online and much better hardware.

 

[Halo Fanboy]

For example, the two big exclusives for the 360 are Halo and Gears of War... but they have very similar themes. In fact, much of the 360's supposed exclusives are like that: one game takes an idea, and then several other games spin the idea with their unique twist; still, the base idea of the game remains the same, leaving everything to feel generic.

Not really. Xbox has plenty of games that are fairly unique. Senko no Ronde, Guilty Gear 2, Dead Rising. I can't think of any genre that PS3 has more of than 360 besides SRPG. While 360 beats PS3 hugely in shooting games, VS shooting and visual novels.

 

[Eggsnham]

Welp, I'm going to try and hold back my fanboyism, but we'll see how that goes.

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The new 360's still fail (although a lot less than their predecessors). I've never heard of anybody I know who owns a PS3 experiencing a console killing issue.

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Uhm no, they don't I can't find any data on that atleast, from what I can see it's going even better than Jasper which was almost over the issues.

The reason why I'm pretty sure it's not the case is because of the issue itself and how companies that have had to deal with it before(nVidia's so called Bump-gate) Have fixed it, and so did MS with the Die Shrink we saw with Jasper.

Yeah, you're probably right, but I'd still recommend PS3, it has features that are equal to, if not better than, the 360. Plus, you don't have to pay for online play.