Xbox 360 or PS3

[franzliszt2]

Ok, I am so bored, and I am going to buy one or the other....or both if I really can't decide, but I'd rather not spend that much.

If I get the Xbox I will get the elite one...becasue it's black and looks cool.

What is the best....Xbox or PS3?

I have played the Xbox 360 a lot, but never seen the ps3 in action.

Thanks

[indutrial]

Ok, I am so bored, and I am going to buy one or the other....or both if I really can't decide, but I'd rather not spend that much.

If I get the Xbox I will get the elite one...becasue it's black and looks cool.

What is the best....Xbox or PS3?

I have played the Xbox 360 a lot, but never seen the ps3 in action.

Thanks

The PS3's graphics are absolutely unreal if you have a $1200+ plasma-screen. The X-box is probably more bang for your buck, if the m.f.er doesn't break down and give you those stupid red rings. X-Box has a better game library also. PS3 will take a few years to catch up and by then hopefully the price will drop again. The only two things that make PS3 appeal to me at all are Ratchet and Clank and the Final Fantasy franchise. Though, even that I could take or leave at this point. I'm a total old fart about games, and still haven't gotten over how heavy the prices are these days.

[Petter]

Get Xbox so you can play Eternal Sonata   

[dnephi]

If you get a PS3, you can also do folding@home, which allows you to fold proteins to cure cancer alzheimer's, and get someone from Stanford a publication in Nature.

Daniel

[indutrial]

Get Xbox so you can play Eternal Sonata   

I was a big fan of Namco's PS2 RPGs, especially the Xenosaga series (which should have continued into the PS3 era but was curtailed from 7 episodes to just 3!!!  ). I've yet to play Tales of Symphonia on the Gamecube, but I plan on it. Is Eternal Sonata similar to either of these? If so, I'm more on X-Box's side than before!

[maul]

ps3. blu-ray player. 1080p. etc.

[opus10no2]

Wii

[maul]

Wii

Wii sucks ballsacks on its own. If you have a Wii, you have to either a 360 or PS3 to go along with it. I have Wii and PS3. Mandatory mang.

[pies]

a

[indutrial]

Neither.  Games are for kids.  Buy some books instead.

When I have people over I'd rather play Super Smash Bros. or Monkey Ball rather than show people how much of an intellectual genius I am with my library of scores and books. While I'm not a supporter of the level of gaming that some people have ingrained in their lifestyles these days (Warcraft fans or hardcore Call of Duty gamers), video-gaming is definitely a worthwhile recreation when it's too dark to play basketball or frisbee.

[maul]

Neither.  Games are for kids.  Buy some books instead.

Aren't you just the complete dumbass trying to sound intelligent. How cute. OoOooooo no, wouldn't want to enjoy ourselves with something that provides enjoyment. OoOoOoO no, wouldn't want to play videogames AND read books. That would just be... IMPOSSIBLE. UNIMAGINABLE. newb.

[opus10no2]

Wii sucks ballsacks on its own.

Really? Yet another reason to buy a Wii.

[franzliszt2]

Neither.  Games are for kids.  Buy some books instead.

That spells out "I don't read, but think I should, so I'll tell other people to read instead"

[dnephi]

That spells out "I don't read, but think I should, so I'll tell other people to read instead"

No, it doesn't.

[Petter]

I was a big fan of Namco's PS2 RPGs, especially the Xenosaga series (which should have continued into the PS3 era but was curtailed from 7 episodes to just 3!!!  ). I've yet to play Tales of Symphonia on the Gamecube, but I plan on it. Is Eternal Sonata similar to either of these? If so, I'm more on X-Box's side than before!

I haven´t tried it yet, but it seems so much fun. Fighting an evil metronome... It´s due to PS3 soon, at least in japan.

[wert718]

I agree with pies, and I'm 15. Buy some good books instead. They'll profit you more in your life. Also, video games are addictive, and they're bad for your eyes if you play too long. Buy the books.

Wert 718

[aewanko]

Nah, I'll just have the PX720.

[pianochick93]

I agree with pies, and I'm 15. Buy some good books instead. They'll profit you more in your life. Also, video games are addictive, and they're bad for your eyes if you play too long. Buy the books.

Wert 718

Books are also addictive, but I'm with indutrial - when friends are over I'd much rather play video games than all sit down and read together, and I'm not much of a gamer.

[popdog]

Speaking of books, I'm in need of one at the moment.  Any recommendations?  Preferably something fictional and engaging.  Might get Clapton's biography out.

[pianochick93]

What genre?

[concerto_love]

Xbox, depends on the game I guess...

[indutrial]

I agree with pies, and I'm 15. Buy some good books instead. They'll profit you more in your life. Also, video games are addictive, and they're bad for your eyes if you play too long. Buy the books.

Wert 718

Last I looked, the topic was about one video game system vs. another. Books aren't even part of the argument and were only inserted into the discussion when someone above felt the need to play the bullshit-intellectual card. I assure you that it's perfectly fine to read books and occasionally play a video game. Both are forms of recreation that are equally valid and equally fallible (let's not forget the legions of a-holes who spend their summers reading a bunch of printed horse manure about politics and issues).

I'm honestly leaning more in the X-Box 360's direction, especially in light of Square's decision to put Final Fantasy XIII out on both systems. While I'm painfully far behind in terms of new games, I will probably eventually pick up a 360 so I can play that game, Halo, and Bioshock. No matter what system I get, however, I will certainly be downloading Mega Man 9. I was ecstatic when they unveiled that project as a through-and-through return to the 8-bit graphics, tight chiptune music, and simple challenge that made the first NES games in that series so excellent. I honestly wish they would release a limited run of actual NES cartridges so I could get it for my awesome toploader NES and simply ignore the current-gen shitboxes entirely for another few years.

As for a good book, Popdog, I'd reccomend any of several recent books I've read (or reread). These include:

Nikos Kazantzakis - Christ Recrucified
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children <----should be required reading for all human beings
Rowling, JK - Harry Potter book 7
Stephen King - It
Michael Ondaatje - Coming Through Slaughter <----WOW!!!!
Philip Roth - American Pastoral
Mikhail Bulgakov - Master & Margarita <-----absolutely essential reading.

I've been in a phase of reading a lot of books that I either read in college or started reading and never finished. Harry Potter and Stephen King are total potato chips, I know, not really high water-marks in brainy literature, but pure bliss in terms of story-telling.

[morningstar]

I had an Xbox 360 and it broke down twice with 3 freaking red lights so I got fed up and sold it. If you plan on buying one get the Elite because the cooling system's been overhauled, it's worth the extra money and you won't have to scrap your $2,000 game library when it fails and you get fed up with it. In terms of hardware the PS3 is better and as long as you don't have heaps of PS2 games it would be a better choice in general.

[cai hong]

well, I prefer PS3.But now...just stays with my PS2 (since PS3 is very exspensive in my country)

[healdie]

Neither.  Games are for kids.  Buy some books instead.

I agree that books are better than games (just got a book on Shostakovich and Stalin) but i do not agree that they are for kids everyone has a bit of a child in them that needs to surface once in a while

my dad is nearly 60 and he plays on age of empires nearly every night

P.S I love sounding intelectual most of my sentances in confisations start off with "Did you know" or "I think you will find"

[ganymed]

I wish i had your problems

[forzaitalia250]

Both systems are fairly comprable. When it comes down to it, the features vs. cost is nearly identical (if you buy the wireless which is built into the PS3 it adds another $100 making them nearly equal except the ps3 has blu-ray) So perhaps in value PS3 is better, but that's if you want blu-ray.

If you have friends that use one system over the other I'd choose the one they use simply because you can play online with them. Playing alone is fine, but the best thing about the new generation of systems is that you never have to, and playing with people you know is much better than playing with random strangers.

This is how I based my decision, and I chose a 360 simply because most of the people I knew have one, and I've been very happy with the decision.

[morningstar]

If you have friends that use one system over the other I'd choose the one they use simply because you can play online with them. Playing alone is fine, but the best thing about the new generation of systems is that you never have to, and playing with people you know is much better than playing with random strangers.

This is how I based my decision, and I chose a 360 simply because most of the people I knew have one, and I've been very happy with the decision.

Yeah but I think they're working on making a way for PS3's to connect with 360s but that'll take forever...where did I hear that? (scratches head)

[forzaitalia250]

Yeah but I think they're working on making a way for PS3's to connect with 360s but that'll take forever...where did I hear that? (scratches head)

Somehow I doubt that would be feasible...

Besides the obvious contraints that exist because both platforms have their own servers as well as numerous other technical challenges that likely exist, Microsoft would likely have some issue with that happening due to the fact that they charge for their online services...

Anyway, my advice would be to not factor that possiblity into a decision.

[morningstar]

Somehow I doubt that would be feasible...

Besides the obvious contraints that exist because both platforms have their own servers as well as numerous other technical challenges that likely exist, Microsoft would likely have some issue with that happening due to the fact that they charge for their online services...

Anyway, my advice would be to not factor that possiblity into a decision.

no definitely don't factor that in a decision. doubt it would ever happen anyway