Whats better, the XBOX360 or the PS3?
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forget them both and find a Nintendo Wii!! You'll have fun at party no matter if it's your friends from college or your 70 year frail grandparents!!
Nielsen ratings show a lot more folks play a 360 than the PS3 as far as gaming consoles go.
However, near the PS3, you're also getting a Blu-Ray player, which just pulse out HD-DVDs as the media format of choice.
Not my article, but it hits all the points...
Short Answer: XBOX 360.
Long answer: Price, gig, visual talent, game inspection and online support. I think the XBOX 360 win in every category.
Price: This is unashamed; the XBOX 360 core is only $299. The PS3 is around $499 for the 20GB reworked copy. It comes with a frozen drive, but you don¡¯t need a unyielding drive to enjoy profusely of great games on the 360 so I think it¡¯s unbiased to compare both core systems.
Performance: On paper, the PS3 is more powerful. In veracity, it¡¯s quite inferior to the 360. Without getting into too various details, the three general-purpose CPU¡¯s the xbox360 has are currently FAR easier to transport advantage of than the SPU¡¯s on the PS3. I suspect a few years down the road some glorious budget, first party PS3 exclusive titles will come out that really whip advantage of the SPU¡¯s and do things the XBOX 360 can¡¯t, but I don¡¯t regard as the console is worth buying based on this speculation (for some it will be though, we'll enjoy to wait and see how these games turn out).
Graphics: The XBOX 360 is a clear champ. The GPU is more powerful. It has more powerful fillrate, and far more pixel and vertex processing horsepower. Part of the cause is their choice of memory, and architecture of pixel and vertex procesing. I can¡¯t get into details but like peas in a pod vertex shader will run much slower on the PS3 than the XBOX 360. The 360 also has a clever hot way rendering big definition anti aliased back buffers. To accomplish indistinguishable effect on PS3 is prohibitively expensive. For this reason I surmise many games will own no choice but to run in non-HD resolutions on the PS3 magazine, use a lower quality anti aliasing technique, or do pay for buffer upscaling. The end result contained by all cases is going to be appreciably worse image talent.
Game Selection: The XBOX 360 has a huge herald start here. 1 year is an eternity in gaming. Almost adjectives multi-platform developers have made the XBOX 360 their primary platform due to timing of release-to-market, this resources the games will look and perform better on the 360. The PS3 version will be ports of the 360 versions. (The differing was true for XBOX 1 vs. PS2). The XBOX 360 is also far faster to develop for due to better nouns tools (massively popular Visual Studio .NET vs. proprietary, buggy PS3 compiler and debugger), better documentation, and easier architecture (3 general purpose CPU¡¯s vs. 8 specialized processors that require DMA). Timing have also caused adjectives next-gen middleware developers to make XBOX 360 their primary platform, and they will ¡®add ps3 support¡¯ as needed. This support will probably be inferior to the XBOX 360¡¯s due to manpower and more importantly, emergency. It¡¯s this catch-22 now that will verbs to drive the 360 forward and hold PS3 back.
The other unashamed point here is that right now the Xbox360 already have a very full of character line-up of titles on store shelves; the ps3 just launch, and has virtually nil of interest. Also, many 360 games are already discounted. PS3 games are adjectives full price since it just launch.
Live: Microsoft¡¯s online support with XBOX1 be phenomenal. They built in-house experience, user base, services, $$ commitment from executive level (since it proved successful), and most importantly, feedback from 100,000s of XBOX Live subscribers. Playstation 2¡¯s online support sucked. They are immediately playing catch-up, trying to emulate Xbox¡¯s model. But they had their hand tied just trying to net the PS3 work, it was incredibly ambitious (blu-ray etc.). I haven¡¯t see it yet, but I seriously doubt the aspect will be anywhere to the level of XBOX 360. 360