So my Xbox 360 exploded.

[bullet_sandw1ch]

i dont know why, but my 320GB ps3 slim chugs loud, like a fat guy in a marathon. most of my favorite multiplayer games are on xbox, so that. also, i feel lonely when i play ps3, i dont know why.

 

[LiquidSolstice]

Not ideal to be sure, but I can't really see blaming them for trying to fix something they didn't know was a problem, and occasionally(like once every couple months?) taking the time to go through and do thorough maintenance.

Hm. Two online services. One hardly ever goes down, has almost never had a security breach, and includes system-wide voip. Not hard to see which is the better service. "They didn't know was a problem" is utter fucking bullshit. They didn't use the same standard of security that almost any online service should be using. I'm sorry, you don't get to leave your front door open and then say it's not your fault when someone comes in.

Uh... There's actually just about an equal amount of content PS3 gets BEFORE 360.

I have reason to think otherwise. The least of which being BF3 and MW3 DLC (even those who paid for Elite on their PS3). Then there was Netflix, etc etc. The list goes on, developers just have more faith in the 360 than they do the PS3, as that's where the money is going. In fact, within four days of launch, Battlefield 3 for the 360 out sold the PS3 version by almost two to one. [http://www.gamezone.com/products/battlefield-3/news/battlefield-3-xbox-360-sales-nearly-double-ps3]

Because it's simply shouldn't be optional..... It's how they manage to store games like RAGE on one disc so you don't have to uninstall the first half and then install the second half.

I'm so tired of hearing this... Excepting Mass Effect 2 and Battlefield 3, I cannot remember when the last time was that I bought a multiplatform game that was 1 disk on the PS3 and two or more on the 360, and even if it was the case, I can't remember ever finding two disks any more stressful than one.

And just generally they don't have to worry about running out of space for huge games like Skyrim (which they sadly decided to keep cut down so it would fit on a single 360 disc) or Metal Gear Solid 4.

The 360 seems to have done just fine with just one-disk games so far. I suppose then Blu-Ray was to solve a problem that didn't exist?

....L2 and R2 are triggers.....

I'm well aware of that? I didn't say that the controller did not have triggers...

So really you just have a problem with developers doing stupid button-mapping, and maybe not giving you the proper option to remap the way you want it?

Seeing as I don't need to change the controls I play with on the 360, this is a con to me, yes. The draw of the console to me is that I get the game, I put it in, I play. The more effortless it is, the better. The more natural and flowing things feel, the better. You can trivialize it as much as you want, but then, seeing as you obviously prefer the PS3, I'm sure you'll be trivializing all of my complaints, so I don't know what you expect me to say to this.

The 360 controller is so awkwardly shaped and the inane d-pad/analog stick flip is just retarded.

That's not true at all. The 360 controller was built bottom up to contour to your hands, whereas the PS3 controller.....was made to look like the PS2 controller (which was terribly painful to hold after long amounts of time). I'm now quite sure you've never held one, you've only seen pictures of it. As far as the sticks go, meh, that's your opinion, an opinion I'm sure you've forged from the many years of having two sticks next to each other, and there's nothing really wrong with that. I don't have an issue with where the analog sticks are. I don't know why they're flipped, but it's never bothered me.

Your experience with reliability seems to put you in the EXTREME minority.

Not true at all. In this thread alone there have been several people who've had no real issues. The bigger problem is that people are more vocal about something going wrong than something going right, and I'm inclined to think that this is more true than isolated complaints of people who say something is wrong. At the end of the day, numbers speak louder to me than complaints, because it's clear in the gaming community that complaints are far more acceptable than praise, often sadly so. Right now, the 360 is trumping the PS3 in terms of sales. People would not buy something that continuously breaks, contrary to what the cynical minds of the Escapist forums seem to think.

 

[LiquidSolstice]

My biggest problem with my PS3 is the pain in the ass it is just to get into Netflix (I swear it updates twice a day). My biggest problem with my Xbox 360 is that it likes to give me RROD scares and go "ha ha! got you again!"

For what it's worth, if you were looking to trouble-shoot, the most common cause of the RROD scare is actually not thermal warping. You'll get 4 blinking red rings if your AV cables are only partially in, and you'll get 3 (in the wrong combination) if you've bent one of the contact pins on the USB port and said pin is touching any other metal.

 

[Beautiful End]

At the risk of sounding like a PS3 fanboy (Which I kinda am, sadly), I prefer a PS3 because of this:

1. I don't have to pay to play online. I don't always play online but when I do, I like to not pay for it (See what I did there?). Yeah, the online service for the 360 is much better, so...

2. Better selection of games. The PS3 has better exclusives. 360 only has a couple of games I'd buy specifically for that console: Gears, Halo, L4D, Alan Wake...I think that's it. The PS3 has GoW, InFamous, ModNation Racers, White Knight Chronicles, Little Big Planet, Metal Gear, Devil May Cry (Although with the newly released HD collections, they kinda lost that privilege), Twisted Metal, etc. All this has to do with your taste, however, so...

3. Games don't get scratched just because you sneezed too loud near it.

4. Blu-ray format discs are REALLY hard to scratch. If you do, you some some kills, friend.

5. They're more resistant to whatever.

I bought my PS3 used almost 3 years ago. It's a 60GB so it's an old model. I take care of it and all and it has never given me a problem at all. I thought it would break down a couple of months after I got it but no. Nothing yet.

I guess it's up to you and your likings. For me, playing online isn't a priority and graphics are not that important to me (Seriously, the difference between the 360 and PS3 when it comes to graphics is minimal. it's not like we're talking about 3D stuff and 8-bit graphics). Those are my two cents.

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

Hey, my Xbox can do fucking gymnastics. It just does not give a fuck. I have seriously had that thing fall while running like five times and it still keeps running like a champ. My Fallout 3 however is lost forever to the foolish actions of a close friend. Who seriously adjusts a console while a game is running? Hilariously enough I've had other games survive worse though. My friend's Dead Space survived a three foot fall in the Xbox while it was running.

...So it's the Xbox messiah? I mean seriously? It's still going after all that?

My PS2 has one fall from two feet high and it's spirit was laughing maniacally and flipping me off with both hands as it left the earthly plane. I mean, I know it's not even made by the same company, but...COME ON!

Some consoles are simply born great. Some consoles have greatness thrust upon them. This is the tale of an Xbox 360 Arcade. Once it was a simple console, lacking significant memory or durability. It was packed with a fucking Sega tennis game full of obscure characters from failed Sega franchises, like Sonic the Hedgehog. Then one day it cam face to face with a game. A simple game really, full of post-apocalyptic themes and brain dead super mutants. They fell in love at first play, but then, tragedy struck. The folly of ignorant friends, the carelessness of an owner that didn't know any better, and the game the 360 loved so much was lost forever.

It still remembers the last words of it's true love, sputtering and struggling as the careless owner tried to make a new character with a specialty in unarmed attacks. The 360 could hear the rhythm in the spinning of the disk, desiring only one thing from the only console that had ever shown it love. "Live."

And so it did.

 

[Screamarie]

Hey, my Xbox can do fucking gymnastics. It just does not give a fuck. I have seriously had that thing fall while running like five times and it still keeps running like a champ. My Fallout 3 however is lost forever to the foolish actions of a close friend. Who seriously adjusts a console while a game is running? Hilariously enough I've had other games survive worse though. My friend's Dead Space survived a three foot fall in the Xbox while it was running.

...So it's the Xbox messiah? I mean seriously? It's still going after all that?

My PS2 has one fall from two feet high and it's spirit was laughing maniacally and flipping me off with both hands as it left the earthly plane. I mean, I know it's not even made by the same company, but...COME ON!

Some consoles are simply born great. Some consoles have greatness thrust upon them. This is the tale of an Xbox 360 Arcade. Once it was a simple console, lacking significant memory or durability. It was packed with a fucking Sega tennis game full of obscure characters from failed Sega franchises, like Sonic the Hedgehog. Then one day it cam face to face with a game. A simple game really, full of post-apocalyptic themes and brain dead super mutants. They fell in love at first play, but then, tragedy struck. The folly of ignorant friends, the carelessness of an owner that didn't know any better, and the game the 360 loved so much was lost forever.

It still remembers the last words of it's true love, sputtering and struggling as the careless owner tried to make a new character with a specialty in unarmed attacks. The 360 could hear the rhythm in the spinning of the disk, desiring only one thing from the only console that had ever shown it love. "Live."

And so it did.

.....*wipes away a tear.* That was...just beautiful....A poet! A master! Oh Shakespeare would bow at your feet man! The Gods themselves shall worship you for all time!

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

Hey, my Xbox can do fucking gymnastics. It just does not give a fuck. I have seriously had that thing fall while running like five times and it still keeps running like a champ. My Fallout 3 however is lost forever to the foolish actions of a close friend. Who seriously adjusts a console while a game is running? Hilariously enough I've had other games survive worse though. My friend's Dead Space survived a three foot fall in the Xbox while it was running.

...So it's the Xbox messiah? I mean seriously? It's still going after all that?

My PS2 has one fall from two feet high and it's spirit was laughing maniacally and flipping me off with both hands as it left the earthly plane. I mean, I know it's not even made by the same company, but...COME ON!

Some consoles are simply born great. Some consoles have greatness thrust upon them. This is the tale of an Xbox 360 Arcade. Once it was a simple console, lacking significant memory or durability. It was packed with a fucking Sega tennis game full of obscure characters from failed Sega franchises, like Sonic the Hedgehog. Then one day it cam face to face with a game. A simple game really, full of post-apocalyptic themes and brain dead super mutants. They fell in love at first play, but then, tragedy struck. The folly of ignorant friends, the carelessness of an owner that didn't know any better, and the game the 360 loved so much was lost forever.

It still remembers the last words of it's true love, sputtering and struggling as the careless owner tried to make a new character with a specialty in unarmed attacks. The 360 could hear the rhythm in the spinning of the disk, desiring only one thing from the only console that had ever shown it love. "Live."

And so it did.

.....*wipes away a tear.* That was...just beautiful....A poet! A master! Oh Shakespeare would bow at your feet man! The Gods themselves shall worship you for all time!

Ah, I am but a simple teller of the tale. I am no true words craftsman, no master of the plot, no lord of themes. I merely wish to tell the tale that I have seen unfold with mine own two eyes, to bring the truth to all willing to hear. There is a savior, and it is born of the machines of men, the fires of man's trials, and the womb of true love. The Great Arcade shall rule forevermore.