Xbox vs. PS3. I'll try to break this down in an honest way. I had the PS2 as did everyone else. When it came out it was a no brainer. It was backwards compatible with the PS1, it played DVDs, the games looked great. There really wasn't any debate at that point. Then the Xbox came out and the first time I played one I thought, this thing is big, the controller is big, you need a stupid add on to play dvds, no thanks. Months went by without a second thought. Then I started reading some things about Xbox Live and the fact that every game would offer voice chat and an easy online lobby.I then started reading reviews of games to compare graphics and what not to the PS2 and almost every review would talk about how much better graphically the game was on the Xbox. Then I would read things about the hard drive and how you could play your own music while you were playing a game, so on my birthday, my parents asked me what I wanted as a gift and jokingly I said an Xbox. Well, they got me one, and instantly I noticed major differences between it and the PS2. The games looked better, they were faster, and you could do so much more. When Xbox Live came out there was nothing the PS2 had that could even compare. Playing ESPN 2K whatever live was the best thing ever on a fall Sunday. I did attempt to play ESPN online with a PS2 one time and my friend and I waited over 30 minutes to get a game going. So I was sold on Xbox at that point and never looked back. I got it modded later with every old school Nintendo and Super Nintendo game, and hundreds of old arcade games, and I could burn Xbox games onto the hard drive, something that PS2 could never, ever, do.
So Xbox 360 comes out, graphics rule, interaction with my computer as a media center is amazing, the games are easily the best and it has the deepest game catelog on the market, and I've been playing high def games on Xbox Live for 2 years, along with playing HD DVDS for over 8 months with the add on that I chose to buy to play movies, and doing many other things with the machine that others don't know how to do like watching Pirates of the Caribbean in HD.
So am I an Xbox 360 blind fan boy? I don't think so. I did the Playstation thing, but Xbox came along and I compared both and made a choice based on what I thought was the better system. With the 360 and the PS3, the 360 came out first, the PS3 hasn't had any games that have made me give it a second thought. All I know is what I've read, that the first party games have been average so far, and that 3rd party support is slipping, and sales have been abysmal. I wouldn't mind getting one at some point for the Blu Ray player and for the web browser, but I don't see the point right now. There hasn't been anything with the PS3 that has made me think about buying it, like Xbox Live made me think about Xbox back in the day, except for Blu Ray, and that could be a non-issue in a matter of months.
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