User:Matt3224

PS3 vs. XBOX 360 a factual learning

The PS3 is by hardware specs superior to the xbox 360 however micro$oft do have a better operating system, with in game music and exellent compatibility with windows (obviously).

One big discussion i have with most xbox adoring fans is the future of game quality and the potential of the hardware the 360 and PS3 have.

a)the 360 only has a DVD drive in it NOT HD-DVD (if you want one it comes seperate). This      means there is a limit to how much the disk can hold and dvd's are capable of 8.4GB max.

b)The PS3 has a blu-ray drive in it which can hold 50GB max. (at the moment. A new 100GB disk is being released soon and toshiba are working on a 200GB disk)

c)Games are basically made up of images, and the higher def the pictures are the better      and more realistic the graphics will be, not to mention mass's of levels and free       roaming land. entire city's that don't appear in the distance, city's that are just       there. realism will be very decent in games to come such as rockstar's GTA 4.

d)the 360 doesn't have many full HD games, what the games company's do to give you that      HD image is they make a game with something like 540p instead of 720p or 1080p and       upscale it, this was the case for bungies' halo 3.

Now to be fair M$ have done a remarkable job with the 360 and are very clever about the way they market it for example (using amazon uk prices) a premium 60gb ps3 is £400 and a premium 360 is £260 however with the ps3 online gaming is free and you get an included high-definition (Blu-Ray) drive the 360 gets you to buy these seperatly so £120 for the high-definition drive (HD-DVD) topping the 260 price tag up to £380 and also you've got the LIVE subscription which is £35 rising that total again to £415 (not to mention the next X amount of years you have it). Now Sony have whacked it all together for a one-off lump sum which does put some people off however surely its far easier to do that than all the rubbish you have to do with an xbox.

M$ are in this game industry and sony are in it for the consumer. The worst thing about the ps3 vs. 360 war is that to have a massive game on the ps3 they creators would have to limit it because of the amount of shrinkage the game would have to do to be ported over to the 360.

Many 360 fans who have just read this have lost the smirks because you cannot blag your console through this when your faced with facts.

One thing i will say is that when sony get off their ass and start seriously thinking about the operating system and start using the PS3 to its fullest potential which at the moment is being kinda wasted the ps3 will go through the roof and you will find that games released only for ps3 will be the great because they will be using that potential. Hold on PS3 owners you will come out on top just have faith in sony and they will deliver.