THE OFFICIAL PS3 vs. XBOX360 vs. Wii thread

Which do you like better: 360, PS3, Wii

  • 360

    Votes: 117 43.7%

  • PS3

    Votes: 89 33.2%

  • Wii

    Votes: 62 23.1%
  • Total voters
    268
In a simple analysis the Cell processor can be split into four components: external input and output structures, the main processor called the Power Processing Element (PPE) (a two-way SMT Power 970 architecture compliant core), eight fully-functional co-processors called the Synergistic Processing Elements or SPEs and a specialised high-bandwidth circular data bus connecting the PPE, input/output elements and the SPEs, called the Element Interconnect Bus or EIB.
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Found this on wikipedia. Looks like eight not nine. my bad.:)
 
tlarkin said:
yeah but in two years the PS3 will drop in price, and can it survive for 2 years with the crap it is going through and sony is going through?

Also, HD-DVD already holds 51gigs of data now in a dual layer disc surpassing blu ray by 1 gig. Xbox 360 can already play DVD9 dual layer discs, who is to say a small firmware upgrade won't make it HD-DVD compatible? They did it already to make it 1080p compliant.

Why buy a console and have it suck for two years?
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Well I don't think it will suck for 2 years. I think in about 6-10 months Sony will come out with a game that will blow everything out of the water. At this point they have to, so they can break even on the PS3 console sales. If they don't, I would say we're looking at another GameCube in the making a $600 door stop for the rest of us :)

I'm disappointed like everyone else, but I'm also patient and I'll give Sony the benefit of the doubt and wait for some better games to come out.

Here's something really sad...I just went to ebgames.com and was browsing for another PS3 game to buy. Nothing looks good to me. However, on the Wii, I picked out 5 games in the first 30 seconds and added them to my cart...man what a great system :)
 
webmaster.jacob said:
i was at wal-mart two days ago and they had a spot just for the ps3's there was about 30-40 of them and as i was walking out i saw some one returning a ps3 i asked them why r u returning it he said he is going to wait for a nother truck load of wiis to come and go get one.
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No kidding? I've heard so many stories of people trading in PS3's for a Wii and a couple of games. Unbelievable. I can remember back when the PS2 came out and if you had one, you were untouchable. No one ever thought of trading their PS2 so early on. My how times have changed...
 
when the market caches up with sony's ps3 the wii2 and xbox 720 will be out or near production. then what is sony going to do? piss off their customers even more by making another 600 dollar console?

it was a dumb move by sony and I won't be surprised if they fail and get bought out in the near future. remember MS has multi billions in the bank, and they are known for buying their competition. Any company that has made a decent product MS has either stolen the idea, or bought it from them, and they have the money to do so.
 
Darman said:
Found this on wikipedia. Looks like eight not nine. my bad.:)
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Wow thanks for the info! Like I said the PS3 is a beautiful machine and has no limit on what it can do. I'm thinking about how great online gaming would be with this thing with all of the hardware, however a few things come to mind...

1.) Cheating, I've read, is so rampant on Resistance that people have completely stopped playing all together. Apparently some people have found ways to go beyond the outside of the map, not new of course, and sit and snipe when players re-spawn.

2.) Some people cannot get into the Playstation network because the PS3 (early models) cannot recognize the DNS servers. People have to go in manually and change the settings, with no help from Sony but rather other players who know computers, and give DETAIL instructions on how to connect. One story had a guy who's son played 360 online all the time but he couldn't hook up the PS3 to play to save his life. He had to wait until he went to a website and someone finally helped him. Took him 2 or 3 weeks he said of having this thing sit there and do nothing.

3.) I'm not good enough to play Resistance online yet so I haven't tried :) Plus there's no headset like the 360...what the heck??

4.) And finally I'm also getting a PSP for b-day and I wanted to connect it to my PS3 to have "remote play." Sounds cool right? Only it's ridiculously difficult to connect the two pieces of hardware (you have to set up your PS3 as an access point and hope and pray that you're PSP can see it. Plus you can only do it with the 60GB version b/c it comes with wifi internally) and you can't actually "play" anything in remote play. It's more like a photo and movie access point/external hdd. You can't play games remotely. Ugh what a mess and a huge let down.
 
tlarkin said:
when the market caches up with sony's ps3 the wii2 and xbox 720 will be out or near production. then what is sony going to do? piss off their customers even more by making another 600 dollar console?

it was a dumb move by sony and I won't be surprised if they fail and get bought out in the near future. remember MS has multi billions in the bank, and they are known for buying their competition. Any company that has made a decent product MS has either stolen the idea, or bought it from them, and they have the money to do so.
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LOL! :D Wii2 and XBox 720...that's awesome. I know where you're coming from. Like I said I just took a $600 (actual $400) gamble on this machine and I'm hoping that it turns out to be what it was HYPED to be. I think Sony dropped the ball on the PS3 and thought they could ride the "Playstation" brand name wave and sell it for however much they want. No joke, I was not going to buy the PS3 until it dropped $200. So when I got the chance to get $200 off I took it now, rather than later. Seems like a dumb move now but it might pay off. Then again it might not. Hindsight is 20/20 and a great in the future.

But I would say to anyone that is looking to buy a PS3, just wait a while. The demand will subside in a few months, if it already hasn't by the looks of things now, and games will be plentiful. Hopefully. If not, get a Wii. Seriously. Best $250 I ever spent in gaming. I still cannot stop playing the free game it comes with, Wii Sports. That game is much more fun than Resistance.
 
sony is raising ps3 price over here in canada. from 659.99 all the way to 699.99. this is probably going to screw up the sell entirely gg no re.
 
TheOrangeDude said:
sony is raising ps3 price over here in canada. from 659.99 all the way to 699.99. this is probably going to screw up the sell entirely gg no re.
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I hope that's a joke. Are they really raising the price on something that people are unwilling to pay for in the first place? I guess Sony doesn't want to sell PS3's anymore...
 
Pck21 said:
No kidding? I've heard so many stories of people trading in PS3's for a Wii and a couple of games. Unbelievable. I can remember back when the PS2 came out and if you had one, you were untouchable. No one ever thought of trading their PS2 so early on. My how times have changed...
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yea times changed lol i rwmwmber when it was liek that lol ps2 was better then any thing out then microsoft came out with the xbox and every thing changed lol and now we got the wii and 360 and ps3

i have to say in over all specs the ps3 wins BUT 360 has better games because it has been out for a year now and the wii is more fun


what they need to do is all go together and make 1 system and man that would be the best game system ever
 
Pck21 said:
I hope that's a joke. Are they really raising the price on something that people are unwilling to pay for in the first place? I guess Sony doesn't want to sell PS3's anymore...
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if u live in canada u can check out futureshop or bestbuy. when it first comes out price were 659.99 but yesterday when I check its 699.99. but wii how ever stay on 289.99. so I'm pretty sure they raise the price.
 
webmaster.jacob said:
yea times changed lol i rwmwmber when it was liek that lol ps2 was better then any thing out then microsoft came out with the xbox and every thing changed lol and now we got the wii and 360 and ps3

i have to say in over all specs the ps3 wins BUT 360 has better games because it has been out for a year now and the wii is more fun


what they need to do is all go together and make 1 system and man that would be the best game system ever
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Haha and good times they were :D

I think the PS3 wins the specs war hands down. Not only that it is a pretty machine too. It's all shiny and there's no buttons either. It's all done by touch which is kinda cool. However it is HUGE. The thing is bigger AND heavier than the original Xbox if you can believe that. I can always use it as a weapon if someone breaks into my house :)

I think 360 and the Wii both have great libraries of games. The 360 has the leg up just because it's been out longer. The Wii however is the golden child of the 3 because it's been out just as long as the PS3 and has a TON more games that are so much fun. Not to mention cheaper too! That's why I can't stop playing my Wii or 360. I hope Sony releases some better games because Resistance is starting to get old. It's fun, but it's all been done before.
 
TheOrangeDude said:
if u live in canada u can check out futureshop or bestbuy. when it first comes out price were 659.99 but yesterday when I check its 699.99. but wii how ever stay on 289.99. so I'm pretty sure they raise the price.
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Wow. I'm so sorry about that! I guess they figure the console is a bust already and will charge a huge amount to start investing in Playstation4 lol. Well if you pre-ordered it should make the price come down, however the hike is almost as much as a game! Thanks again Sony!
 
TheOrangeDude said:
sony is raising ps3 price over here in canada. from 659.99 all the way to 699.99. this is probably going to screw up the sell entirely gg no re.
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Sony is sinking fast. Only the rich can afford it. You think they would learn that people don't have the money to pay on a $6-700 system:eek: . When there are cheaper ones to buy that are still good.
 
when the market caches up with sony's ps3 the wii2 and xbox 720 will be out or near production. then what is sony going to do? piss off their customers even more by making another 600 dollar console?

it was a dumb move by sony and I won't be surprised if they fail and get bought out in the near future. remember MS has multi billions in the bank, and they are known for buying their competition. Any company that has made a decent product MS has either stolen the idea, or bought it from them, and they have the money to do so.
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Firstly, I'll remind everyone that I'm not a Playstation fanboy :). Secondly, those that are saying Sony is going to fail and get bought out... Well that is a pretty big stretch. Sony playstation 3 could fail, but the Sony company? prob. not ;). Sony is an electronics company (and a big one), not a gaming company. Also, Sony is going to be making good money from the playstation II for a few more years to come ;).

I doubt Microsoft would want to buy Sony. Just to destroy the playstation product? As I said Sony is a electronics company, and worth big bucks. Yes Microsoft has the coin to to devour the company. The problem is, it is not economical for them to purchase and shut down a large company to wipe out the playstation. Considering the cost, it is more economical for Microsoft to wait and see if Sony can destroy the Playstation product themselves ;). Also when it comes to selling and buying company's, well you need a seller in order to buy ;). Sony will survive because they are not a gaming company. I doubt they'd hand over the company to Microsoft.
 
consider this

decline is sales
loss of lots of money from PS3
lawsuits and recalls (like 6 million laptop batteries in the last year)


It is very highly possible they might sell off the PS3 franchines. Originally the Play station was suppose to be a CDROM add on for the SNES back in the day. Towards the end of the project nintendo scrapped it and sony said up yours and came out with the PSX
 
All good points tlarkin. I suppose what I'm trying to say is, Sony the Company is not going down because of the loss of the playstation product. It will hurt them in such a huge way. The laptop batteries was an excellent point.

Sony is making large sales on the playstation 2 product as we speak remember. If they got smart, I think they could bounce back. The problem is, Sony makes so many stupid moves. They would prob. tell you though, they are calculated risks. Risks that Sony obvsiously feels that they can afford to make. Can they? personally I'd have no way of knowing.

As for the nintendo and sony comments... Yup I know :). It is really interesting how products are sometimes created. Not nearly as interesting as how Microsoft made it's name though (the last part about Microsoft was just senseless dribble).
 
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