PS3 or XBOX 360?

Nobahar · Post by **Nobahar** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:34 pm

PS3 has support for previous playstation formats, does xbox 360 play xbox games? I'd assume so for competition.

I'd be all over the PS3 except Sony seems to be messing up its marketing strategy and may lose to Microsoft in the long-run.

I just quite frankly don't care much for the line-up of Xbox games. PS3 has Metal Gear Solid, Square-enix, Gran Turismo, earlier release of GTA, etc.

The only XBox game worthy of buying the system for is Ninja Gaiden (Or Ninja Gaiden Black with the expansions). Soul Calibur runs better on xbox but it is on both systems, and Halo is only a good console FPS- PC will always own console in the FPS and mmorpg market.

I probably won't buy a nextgen console until prices drop. I also like Nintendo games, but not sure about the new remote controller thing- and I feel that Nintendo should be cheaper than the other, both in terms of consoles and game prices.

Nobahar · Post by **Nobahar** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:35 pm

Oh I was reasoning buying the nextgen based on what I have see in PS2 and Xbox. Sorry if that wasn't clear lol.

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:15 pm

The Xbox 360 will only have limited support for Xbox games, BUT because of the hardware and design of the PS3 i think there will be fewer games comming out on it. Its going to cost a lot less to build a game for PC and Xbox360, than it will be to prot from PS3 to PC.

Kerii · Post by **Kerii** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:24 am

The XBox360 Core system will only play new games, the Premium system will have support for old games.

As for which console to get, I honestly don't think it'll matter in the long run because the two systems are about equal in terms of power, not to mention specs. Frankly, with the 360, XBox lost pretty much all of its uniqueness and is just another console, almost all of its PC roots are gone and replaced with industry standard console parts. Publishers want to sell as many copies of a game as they can, and porting a game is significantly less costly than creating one from scratch, so many games will be available for both 360 and PS3.

There will of course be exclusives though seeing as Microsoft bought up quite a few game studios, and Quake 4 looks quite promising.

Revolution though... well... I'm not betting the farm, but I am hopeful.

Well, in any case I'd never leave my mouse and keyboard.

There really is no other way to play FPS games.

Post by **FZ1** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 6:09 am

Kerii wrote:Well, in any case I'd never leave my mouse and keyboard.
There really is no other way to play FPS games.

I totally agree with you there. I have a hard time playing Halo etc with a gamepad. I keep waiting for them to come out with a mouse-like device for the consoles.

Nobahar · Post by **Nobahar** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:13 am

We should figure out how to take out xbox 360 parts and make them work on my pc- ;p

Kerii · Post by **Kerii** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:41 pm

Vstrom wrote:
Kerii wrote:Well, in any case I'd never leave my mouse and keyboard.
There really is no other way to play FPS games.
I totally agree with you there. I have a hard time playing Halo etc with a gamepad. I keep waiting for them to come out with a mouse-like device for the consoles.

Why buy a proprietary piece of crap that you can't use on anything else? Just get an XBox -> PS2 (not PlayStation2) adapter.

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?clien ... a=N&tab=wf

NAiLs · Post by **NAiLs** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:36 pm

infinitevalence wrote:Its going to cost a lot less to build a game for PC and Xbox360, than it will be to prot from PS3 to PC.

If you mean port, I almost disagree with the XBox -> PC. The reason for this is the sole fact that many XBox 360 games will be designed with three CPUs in mind. Your average home computer has one... with exception to the newly introduced dual cores, but those still aren't in a ton of homes. I honestly have no clue how the PS3 is built as I never read about it, but I think the 360's games will be more difficult to port over.

As far as consoles that I plan on getting, none. I am almost done w/ consoles. I bought Gamecube, I own 10 titles for it. Never rented more than 3 games for it. XBox, I have 2 games for it, bought it the day it came out. PS2, I have 4 games for it, bought it back in late '02.

I'm not too hot on prices for systems, and Nintendo's controller blows. I love Nintendo, but the controller just threw me off. I need something comfortable to use while I try to play a game...

Post by **FZ1** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:22 pm

Kerii wrote:
Vstrom wrote:
Kerii wrote:Well, in any case I'd never leave my mouse and keyboard.
There really is no other way to play FPS games.
I totally agree with you there. I have a hard time playing Halo etc with a gamepad. I keep waiting for them to come out with a mouse-like device for the consoles.
Why buy a proprietary piece of crap that you can't use on anything else? Just get an XBox -> PS2 (not PlayStation2) adapter.

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?clien ... a=N&tab=wf

Sweet! I didn't know these existed!