microsofts muffed up console (red ring of doom)

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Well turns out chucking your 360's out erly wasnt so good eh?
Radio one has announced about 4 times today that your 360 will more than likely go poof within 3 years of purchase. And have set aside One Billion Dollars (sp?) to deal with these repairs.

It could happen now, it could happen later, even if you hardly every play it, the 3 red lights are coming to getcha!

But really, Nearly half a billion quid (1B dollars) just to fix the ones that are gunna break... all of them

Lucky news for people with warantees running out, theyve extended it for 3 years so that it will be covered when it goes peek tong.
and if you have already paid £80 to get it fixed... then phone up and get your money back
 
ill gladly take my 360 over the ps3 any day even though it will red ring. the ps3 has almost no good games that i cant get on anything else and what is up with those controllers? also, $600 is a bit much
 
For me the PS3 is ideal, I'm not into shooting games, more racing, so Halo 3 doesn't appeal to me.

What's wrong with the controllers?? They're just like PS2 ones with a PS button and better L2 / R2 buttons.

$600 is a bit much? The 360 with wireless, online play and a HD-DVD Drive costs more than that (or it does over here). The PS3 is more like a home media centre thingy, with the possibility to run Linux, surf the internet (doesn't have to be through linux), and play DivX (I know the 360 has that aswell though).

I'm not saying the 360 is a bad console, it does some really nice graphics (in some cases better than PS3), but for me the PS3 worked out cheaper.

P.S I had a Wii and they're ok for the first day or two, then the novely wears off (or it did in our house).
 
thomas234 said:
For me the PS3 is ideal, I'm not into shooting games, more racing, so Halo 3 doesn't appeal to me.

What's wrong with the controllers?? They're just like PS2 ones with a PS button and better L2 / R2 buttons.

$600 is a bit much? The 360 with wireless, online play and a HD-DVD Drive costs more than that (or it does over here). The PS3 is more like a home media centre thingy, with the possibility to run Linux, surf the internet (doesn't have to be through linux), and play DivX (I know the 360 has that aswell though).

I'm not saying the 360 is a bad console, it does some really nice graphics (in some cases better than PS3), but for me the PS3 worked out cheaper.

P.S I had a Wii and they're ok for the first day or two, then the novely wears off (or it did in our house).
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oh yeah definetly agree with you about the wii. we got one, and played it for all of maybe 3 hours. and i know that the $50 a year to play online is a bit much for xbox live, but i prefer it over sony's system for online, because of features like the arcade, downloadable original xbox games, and matchmaking. i think that the ps2/ps3 controllers are a little awkward to hold, then again i am used to a mouse and keyboard or a 360 controller. and just for the record, i am not a microsoft fanboy, i just happen to think that right now, the 360 is better, and if you dont get an HDDVD drive, still cheaper
 
I got my 60 GB PS3 for €599. Now the 360 premium (wifi controller included) costs €599, and then you don't even have a next-gen DVD format (in that case the HD-DVD player), only a 20 GB harddisk, need to pay lots of money to get the same online options as the PS3 has for free, you only get 1 game instead of 2 for *free*, doesn't have a card reader and the PS3 is much faster than the 360.

So the 360 is not better than the PS3. The only advantage that the 360 has, that it's easy to change the cover of the device and the platform has some excusive games like Halo 3.
 
yeah if you buy a pack with a few games and 2 wireless controllers the 360 premium is $600. if you buy a plain xbox 360 premium with no extras, it costs somewhere between $300 and $400, depending on where you buy it. also, im assuming that most people on this forum have somewhat decent or great computers, so why do you really need that much storage space on you xbox when you can stream all your media from your computer? but in every review of xbox live vs ps3 online, the xbox live service wins, so i will gladly pay $50 a year for that. the only advantage to getting a ps3 is that its basically a cheap bluray player that happens to play some games also. and sony is losing all of it's main titles that used to be playstation exclusive, such as grand theft auto, to microsoft. actually, back to the online, can you buy full movies in high def on the ps3? nope. you can get movie trailers in high def. now which one would you rather get?
 
MercyFlush said:
can you buy full movies in high def on the ps3? nope. you can get movie trailers in high def. now which one would you rather get?
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Have you ever heard of the Playstation Store? You can download high-def (1080p) movie and game trailers. And also it's possbile to download game demos and buy games online. So I don't really think why Xbox Live is any better than the Playstation network.

Furthermore, a blu-ray player is priced twice as much as the PS3 itself. So you get at least a cheap blu-day player. And at this moment (in europe) there are loads of blu-day titles in stores.

And Sony is not losing any titles, it is gaining titles like Burnout Paradise. The Burnout series where first an xbox exclusive, now it's a PS3 exclusive.

And about that storage space. It's not really nice to stream 1080p hi-def movies through wireless LAN, so I'd rather get a movie on blu-ray disk or just put a DivX movie on my USB stick and put it in my PS3.

I can even watch Youtube vids and browse the web. I've never seen a 360 browse the web :)

I previously owned a 360 Premium with all stuff. I sold it, because I wasn't happy with it. Then I got a PS3, and from that point on I don't want to go back to an XBOX. Never.
 
RHochstenbach said:
Have you ever heard of the Playstation Store? You can download high-def (1080p) movie and game trailers. And also it's possbile to download game demos and buy games online. So I don't really think why Xbox Live is any better than the Playstation network.

Furthermore, a blu-ray player is priced twice as much as the PS3 itself. So you get at least a cheap blu-day player. And at this moment (in europe) there are loads of blu-day titles in stores.

And Sony is not losing any titles, it is gaining titles like Burnout Paradise. The Burnout series where first an xbox exclusive, now it's a PS3 exclusive.

And about that storage space. It's not really nice to stream 1080p hi-def movies through wireless LAN, so I'd rather get a movie on blu-ray disk or just put a DivX movie on my USB stick and put it in my PS3.

I can even watch Youtube vids and browse the web. I've never seen a 360 browse the web :)

I previously owned a 360 Premium with all stuff. I sold it, because I wasn't happy with it. Then I got a PS3, and from that point on I don't want to go back to an XBOX. Never.
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umm hate to break it to you but i just bought burnout paradise..... for 360. and sony's website says that you can only get trailers... they lied to me. and yeah i can put a movie on my USB stick also and watch it. i can attack my external hdd if i really want and it checks that for any videos. any yeah, its nice to have a web browser. but i have a computer for that. and yeah, the xbox premium was originally 600. now its much much cheaper than a ps3. and the xbox live services like matchmaking are way better than the ps3 services
 
MercyFlush said:
but i just bought burnout paradise..... for 360
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The commercials where all showing for PS3. So apparently it's also available for the 360.
and the xbox live services like matchmaking are way better than the ps3 services
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thats true....for now. But after a few months, PS3 users can enjoy PS Home. It's like second life, and you can create your own home and meet people.
 
I think both consoles have their pros and cons. I've never played on an Xbox or Xbox 360, so I can't really argue that the PS3 is better. The only consoles I've had are a PS2 and PS3 - both have been brilliant.

I reckon that the 360 is going to struggle in the next few months / years because of it's poor reliabilty and the fact that it only has a DVD drive by default, so games are limited (players may have to by a HD-DVD Drive, or have more than one disc).

My PC isn't powerful enough to run the latest games (although neither are 360 or PS3 apparently - someone who was involved with creating Crysis said neither consoles were capable). It cost me £390 altogether, and it will only run Crysis on medium settings with 1024x768 and no AA. Far Cry 2 is coming out later this year, and I'm praying it'll work on that, if not I'll have to go for the PS3 version which will be harder to control (because the mouse on a PC is really good for weapons I find).
 
RHochstenbach said:
The commercials where all showing for PS3. So apparently it's also available for the 360.

thats true....for now. But after a few months, PS3 users can enjoy PS Home. It's like second life, and you can create your own home and meet people.
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yeah the commercials confused me a little too. and ok that actually is pretty cool about the PS home thing, but when they get their actual gaming up to par with live, then ill be interested
 
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