Question:
Truly, which one is better?
2008-07-01 13:00:12 UTC
Graphics, games, and online play is what matter to me the most. Price is not an issue. I think both systems offer online play, but I think the PS3 is free and for the 360 you have to pay for XBOX live. Now I know the PS3 has the blue ray player built in which is a huge advantage. I saw one of those at best buy the other day for $1000! I know that the PS3 has wireless router inside of it so it has internet capabilty. I think you have to buy a wireless gaming router for a 360, but can you go on the internet with that?

Now this is the bigger question: What is the difference between HD and Blue Ray and which one is better.
Ten answers:
Agent 47
2008-07-01 13:30:19 UTC
Here are all the facts:



Graphics:

Some original releases for PS3 had to be ported over and so had worse graphics. PS3 exclusives look better because it has better hardware. The best looking game in the world according to IGN in Uncharted [a PS3 exclusive]. Some people say multiplatforms are better on 360 but that is because the comparison videos that were done by gamespot were inaccurate because the PS3s visual settings were not optimized, when RGB is full they look better on PS3.



Games:

People say 360 has the best exclusive games but this really isn't true. 360 has:

Halo 3 - only good online so only half a good game

Gears Of War - good but not better than a lot of PS3 exclusives.

-The Agency

-Afrika

-Driver

-Eye Of Judgment

-FF 13

-Folklore

-God of war 3

-GT5

-Heavenly Sword

-Heavy Rain

-inFamous

- Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier

-Killzone 2

-LA Noire

-LittleBigPlanet

-MGS4

-MLB 08 The Show

-Motorstorm/motorstorm Pacific Rift

- Ratchet and Clank

-Red Dead Revolver 2

-Redwood Falls

-Resistance/Resistance 2

-Ridge racer 7

-SOCOM Confrontation

-Tekken 6

-uncharted

-Warhawk

-WarDevil

Who has no games now?



Online:

It is a common myth that Live is a lot better than PS Network.



This is NOT true, they are pretty much the same except Live has been up longer and so it has more stuff in the online store. As of tommorow PSN has achievments and in game chat [only better].



Incorrect Myths about PSN:

1.It is laggy -> FALSE it has dedicated servers instead of matchmaking so there are better connections.



2. it is empty-> they both have millions of users, would you notice the difference ?



And not to mention it is free, and Playstation Home [second life for PS3] and life with playstation [ info on news and weather].



If you want to play with WiFi on 360 it costs an extra 100$. 360 also has no internet broswer so no.



HDDVD has been dicontinued and you cannot buy the dapters or players or disks anywhere. It was like BRD HDDVD is 15 gigs and Blu ray is 25-50 and possibly 200 gigs. Blu ray had more movie companies behind it and in february they stopped making HD DVDs and all the companies switched over. At the time to play HD DVD on a 360 you needed to PAY for an add-on.



PS3 is better.
zo6_lover
2008-07-01 13:23:51 UTC
Ps3 wins in all those categories, better graphics, better games, more stable online connection, but the 360 has more features which the ps3 is getting in an update tomorrow.



ps3 has wifi built in and you have to buy a $100 upgrade for the 360, and the ps3 has an internet browser and the 360 only has online play, no internet.



The ps3 controllers come with rechargeable batteries, you have to buy them separately for the 360.



The ps3 has bluray built in for the 360 you have to buy an upgrade to play HDDVD, which is dead.

Notice a pattern here?



Bluray is the superior format, that is why it won.
2008-07-01 13:54:35 UTC
HD Discs (360 add on) are not sold anymore. Blu ray is the oone and only HD disc format now.



Blu Ray holds 5 times as much data as regular so you can have larger more detailed games.
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zackbellen1995
2008-07-01 13:30:50 UTC
a ps3 is so much better it has better graphics blue ray and some xbox 360 are coming out for ps3



ps3 exclusives

resident evil 5 (coming out soon)

tekken 6 (also coming out soon)

metal gear solid 4



and you can use the internet on your ps3
hendsbeex
2008-07-01 13:19:46 UTC
Blueray is supported, HD is dead (Victim of Blueray.)



The only advantage that the 360 had over the PS3 was live, even though it was a paid service. With the anticpated launch of the 2.4 update tomorrow, the 360 will no longer even have this claim.
2008-07-01 13:19:10 UTC
Blue ray stores more information on it (50gb dual layer) This is what the ps3 games are printed on as opposed to regular disk that have been used for years. Such as what the 360 has. but both are high definition gaming consoles.
2008-07-01 13:40:27 UTC
uhh for your info HD does not come in games blu-ray does / HD is for DVD / HD means /high definition it uses the old dvd drive in dual layer it can store 8.5GB while blu-ray the standard is 25GB and the dual-layer 50GB mean in games theres no need to be compressed in ps3 to avoid texture loading in games which 360 common problem in GTA IV and blu-ray comes with HD too in 360 it hasn't have hd player you need to buy extra for it only plays dvd
2008-07-01 13:46:55 UTC
lol wow first blue ray has hd in it second if blue ray didn't have hd in it the screen wouldn't look so nice and third if you have a ps3 and panasonic tv you would know the answer to this question lol wow
2008-07-01 14:32:02 UTC
- ps3 has a built-in blu-ray player



-ps3 supports 1.3 HDMI which has rich colors and xbox supports 1.2 HDMI



- ps3 has much more and better exclusives, most of them cant go to xbox 360 because it cant handle that many data(DVD- 8.5gb, blu-ray 50gb)



- because of the blu-ray's huge space, ps3 will have WAY better graphics than 360



- online is free for ps3 not like 360



- ps3 will have over 300 games released by this spring



- you can browse the internet on ps3, no such thing for xbox 360



- when developers get used to the system, the graphics will be WAY better than 360. should take them a year to get used to it



- developers stated that they will start using ps3 as the lead platform and port ps3 games to xbox



- playstation home is coming out this spring, its a virtual community where you can hang out with friends and customize your own apartment which xbox doesnt have(FREE)



- ps3 is a true HD console. xbox 360 upscale games to 1080p and ps3 DISPLAY games up to 1080p



- built in Wi-Fi



- xbox 360: 33% hardware failure

ps3: .2% hardware failure(see the decimal? less than 1%!)



- ps3 has better back-comp except the 40gb



- rumble returns in spring 2008



- xbox 360 already has been maxed out to its potential with gears of war. ps3 has not been maxed out yet- look at uncharted drakes fortune, better graphics than gears and its only 30% of ps3’s potential



- you can upgrade your harddrive without voiding warranties with any 2.5 HDD, which xbox cant because you have to buy a xbox HDD

(they actually have the step by step on how to upgrade it on playstation.com)



those are the ones that i know right off my mind but there are much more reason than this



Now I want you to do me a favor, list all the reasons why xbox is better than ps3. I PROMISE you that nobody will get at least 5 reasons



if you get ps3, look at this, you will be able to play metal gear solid 4, haze, killzone 2, resistance 2(60 player online!!!!), final fantasy XIII, motorstorm 2, little big planet, better version of GTA IV, god of war 3, uncharted drake's fortune, heavenly sword, ratchet and clank, SOCOM: confrontation, gran turismo 5, ETC- http://news.filefront.com/ps3-exclusives...



Prices as of today:

ps3- 80gb: $499 with motorstorm

40gb: $399 with spiderman 3 blu-ray

xbox 360(premium)- $349

(elite)- $449

if you want the accessories that ps3 comes with, that would add up to over 700 dollars, so that means ps3 is cheaper



xbox 360 pricing to match ps3's features:

$349/$449- console

$50- XBL subscription(only for 1 YEAR) pay $50 every year

$100- wi-fi adaptor

$200- HD-DVD drive add-on

$20- rechargeable battery kit

all comes out to $720/$820- add $50 each year you subscribe for XBL



ps3 features:

$399/$499- console

spiderman 3 blu-ray movie/motorstorm

online- free

rechargeable battery- built in the controller

wi-fi built in

blu-ray player(better than HD-DVD) built in

all comes out to $399/$499, oh my,look at that, its the same price as before

PS3 will win the console war, no doubt. Xbox 360 and Wii are so weak from technological point of view, that in couple of years they won't be capable of dealing with serious graphics. GTA IV, for instance, isn't even announced for Wii - this toy won't be able to cope with the game's requirements. Xbox 360 is getting GTA IV, however, the game is going to be released on several DVDs - Xbox 360 owners will have to interrupt gaming process and switch discs (Rockstar complained about this issue). Only PS3 will have it on single BD-DVD.



Let's compare PS3 and XBOX 360:



1). A third of XBOX 360 (33%) are malfunctioning right from the start. PS3 return rate is only around 0.2%. Despite some people say, that new 360 has no breakdown issues - just visit Xbox section of Yahoo answers and see for yourself an amount of complaints.

2). PS3 has 7 kernels in Cell processor, Xbox 360 -only 3.

3). PS3 uses advanced tech called Blu-Ray, one disc can store up to 25 (single layer) and dual layer 54 gb (in the future - up to 200 gb), Xbox 360 - regular dual layer DVD-9 (8.5GB). It's possible to get HD-DVD (max. - 30GB) for 360, but it'll cost you around 50$. Besides, HD-DVD had lost the format war with Blu-ray. Toshiba had stopped to manufacture them, Microsoft too.

4). Calculations per sec - PS3 - 51-billion-dot-product-operati... per second

Xbox 360 - 33.6-billion-dot-product-opera... per second

5). PS3 has full media support - USBs, built-in 4 slots card reader (except 20GB and 40GB versions), ability to use printer and so on.

Xbox 360 has USBs and only 2 memory slots.

6). PS3 supports up to 7 Bluetooth Controllers

Xbox 360 - up to 4 Controllers

7). PS3 - wi-fi included (except 20 gb version)

Xbox 360 - wi-fi will cost you around 100 $

8). From the first technical sight - graphics are stronger in 360 (it has a stronger graphics chip - Xenos), BUT PS3 can use it's Cell CPU for graphics too, which gives you better graphics in total. PS3 uses a weaker RSX chip, that was developed by Nvidia exclusively for PS3. RSX runs on 550 Mhz. It's difficult to compare their graphics, because 360 has a video chip with totally different structure and operating memory is divided differently in both consoles. Xbox isn't that versatile in dividing tasks between CPU and GPU as PS3. That's why PS3 exclusives look better than 360's exclusives.

9). Xbox 360 is widely known for so-called "red ring of death" problem - it gets overheated easily. My PS3 was running for more than 15 hours non-stop with no problems. Sometimes Xbox 360 becomes so overheated, that thermopaste on CPU melts, drips on motherboard and successfully shortcircuits it. That's why in some countries people call Xbox 360 "Coffin 360".

10). In 2008 PS3 will get more than 300 games, including Metal Gear Solid 4, The Agent and other great exclusives. Here is the good link to the future PS3 releases. http://ps3.ign.com/index/release.html......

11). PS3 online is free, Xbox 360 - you have to pay.

12). There were reports, that 360 scratches discs. No reports on that in PS3.

13). The funniest thing, that right now there are no games for PS3, that show full potential of the console. Biggest games weigh only 25 GB (Xbox 360 will need more than 3 discs even for those).

14). On PS3 you can install other OS, such as Linux Yellow Dog, Ubuntu and others. Sony officially lets you do it. There is no such thing in 360.

15). PS3 HDD can be replaced easily with any 2.5" SATA 5400 RPM HDD (used in laptops). 250 GB will cost you around 170$. In 360 you have to buy exclusive HDD, where 20GB will cost you 100$.

16).Sony expects PS3 to stay on the market for, at least, 7-10 years. Also Sony reduces price now. There is a cheaper 40GB version of PS3.

17).Sony constantly upgrades PS3 software (free updates for OS) - you get new functions and improvements.

18). PS3 controller (sixaxis) has a motion control - you move controller - game responds. Wii has it, Xbox 360 - doesn't. PS3 is getting rumble controller (Dualshock 3) on 15.04.2008, Japan already has it. On www.ebay.com I saw those controllers on sale 50$ and up (unofficial import).

19).On PS3 you can help sick people by running Folding Home project. Wii and Xbox 360 didn't even think about it.

20).New 40GB is 399$ or 399 euro (depends on the region) - it has no backwards compatibility with PS2 games, has 2 USBs instead of 4, no built-in card reader, but it's the same PS3, strong, reliable, less noisy, different cooling system. The price is friendly.

21). But, to be just, I'm not a PS3 fanboy, so (despite I own one) hear this - PS3 games (exclusives) are very hard to develop due to complicated Cell's architecture. We have to wait till developers will figure out how to develop games properly. Sometimes multiplatform games run not so good on PS3 due to the same developing issues - it's hard for developers to get a grip on such advanced technologies.

blue ray is better than hd


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