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Xbox 360 vs PS3 vs Wii (all discussion here please)
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brian plank wrote: »i think you know yourself thats just not true. :pac:
Trust me it is 100% true, the XBox has very little going for it. That pic just shows that the Wii is for all ages
even your mum like you demonstrated :P (joke!)GT_TDI_150 wrote: »They actually are the cheaper option when the choise is between the PS3 and the Xbox
Like I said in my post I didn't have a PS3 so was not commenting on it, as a result my price comparison was between the Wii and the Xbox only.0 -
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Mostly untrue, the 360 has the lead in multiplatform games which means outside of the exclusives, the vast majority of games will be better on the 360. In terms of exclusives it does have more big names however given that most people's library will include a large number of non-exclusives, this needs to be balanced out. Finally no, it is not "in general" a more stable console, that's complete rubbish and is only mildly true if you own a first generation 360 which does not apply to the OP.
Not mostly untrue in the slightest. Multiplatforms are almost identical with both consoles, you really cant tell the difference unless your using FPS graphs in which case its 90% of the time as little as a few frames.Larger capacity bluray drives mean two things to the end user, no more disc swapping and the chance that the developer will put higher quality cut scenes on the disc. It has no bearing on the quality of games outside of this during this generation. For the record, none of the above games "aren't possible" on the 360 bar MGS4 as it stands due the uncompressed audio and pre-rendered video found on the disc. In terms of the actual game, they'd be practically the same. If anything, Killzone 3's deferred rendering engine benefits the PS3 architecture more but that's not something you'll see in many games for a variety of reasons.
Uncharted 2 would only be possible on the 360 if it was "Dumbed" down, because of how it works with the cell processor. unless you'd be ok with half the frame rates achieved by the PS3.I pulled another user up on the exclusives list for the 360 earlier in the thread so I won't do it again. Suffice to say it is of course true the PS3 is getting more of them this year however the 360 list is by no means as short as just Gears and maybe a Halo game.
That was me, you never pointed out these other big exclusives coming out on the 360. You said Froza, halo and more annoucements on a game we know absolutely nothing about. Considering we have no idea if there will be another halo game this year the list of top exclusives for the 360 could be as little as Gears of war and froza !! That is a HUGE downside to buying a 360 now, dont even pretend its not. IGN's top 10 Xbox most wanted games for 2011 contains 1 exclusive compared to the 5 or 6 for the PS3 (It never even included the last guardian). If mass effect was still an exclusive series maybe it wouldn't have looked so bad, Mass Effect 2 was by far the best exclusive to come out on the 360 since ME1.
serve you better ? How exactly, i load up a game, i invite my friends, i play some games. How exactly can you do that "better".The free PSN will indeed allow you to dip into online gaming but as said before, if you want to get into it then you'll find XBL will serve you better once you start to build up a friends list.
I dont know, i just read soem reviews on IGN/Gamespot etc and they all seemed to favor the performance of the move over the kinect. I've no interest in either.No it hasn't, in terms of the big games for both platform they're actually neck and neck. The difference in the future is most Kinect games will be tailor made for the peripheral whereas most Move games will be normal games which will be "Move-enabled". TGS also showed off some great looking core Kinect games for the 360 whereas at the moment Move games seem to be more limited to support for normal games like Killzone 3 and SOCOM which are games which you'd be better off playing with the controller anyway.As for which pad is better, well if the game uses the triggers for acceleration and breaking then it'd be the 360 which would be widely considered better due to the god-****ing-awful triggers on the PS3 pad.
Entirely personal preference, im not a fan of the 360 controller, seems to cramp up my hands (I have big hands), probably because im used to holding the ps3 controller. Theres alot of people that prefer the PS3 controller, alot of people say the xbox is better for FPS games, but really its not. The Dualshock has a much smaller deadzone and the analogs are more loose, ask wings of redemption . You can also buy big ass triggers for £2.50 which are apparently very good... yet to try them myself tho. The "Which controller is better " agrument always comes down to which console you play. Xbox players will say they prefer the xbox controller and vise versa (Mostly anyway)
IMO the only reasons to choose a 360 over a PS3 would be if your a Halo/Gears nut, you're friends all play on xbox live or you cant aford the extra few quid for a PS3. PS3 can do everything the xbox can plus more and has better exclusives and will continue to have better exclusives. Pretty obvious choice imo.0 -
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The blog is aimed at those with either an understanding or an interest in those kinds of technical breakdowns. It does unfortunately attract the "my console is better than your console crowd" as the Comments section continues to show, but the articles themselves are usually quite informative. As for the results, well as I said, just because you can't see the differences doesn't mean they're not there.Nit picking at best, i've looked at a few of these so called comparisons, with a few screenshots supposely showing better graphics on one or the other... yes the PS3 won quite a few that i looked at. Everyone knows that websites publish them because PS3 vs Xbox fanboy warrs always generate alot of hits (Look at this thread for example)
As for this thread, I'd like to think it acts as more of a guide for potential customers who are laying down a couple of hundred quid on a console rather than some silly baiting pit.
I'm quite happy to take maybes into account, they're the most fun ones to watch, my gripe was that going by the two lists posted only one platform was having its maybes considered.But they're not... theres been absolutely no word of a halo game yet and theres as much known about 'Agent' for the PS3 as there is for cryteks 360 exclusive.. i wouldnt call that solid just like i wouldnt consider Agent a solid 2011 release. You only named 2 Solid releases for 2011. Im not ruling them out, but the PS3 would only get bigger if we're taking "Maybes" into account.
I was hoping those PowerA controllers would be better but it seems not. In the meantime I've gotten the Giotek covers for my triggers which improve things immensely. I just wish they weren't so damn fragile.Aww well, sure you can get PS3 controllers for the xbox and xbox controllers for the PS3 if it was a problem.
An explanation which makes perfect sense, your wording above was far less reasonable however.Im just trying to put forth reason why I'd go for the PS3 over the xbox. Personally if i had neither and choosing from scratch again i'd diffo go for which one the majority of my friends had, if i wasnt interested in online gaming i'd look at the games being released and choose which one had the better games and games coming out for it in the future. 0 -
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The blog is aimed at those with either an understanding or an interest in those kinds of technical breakdowns. It does unfortunately attract the "my console is better than your console crowd" as the Comments section continues to show, but the articles themselves are usually quite informative. As for the results, well as I said, just because you can't see the differences doesn't mean they're not there.
As for this thread, I'd like to think it acts as more of a guide for potential customers who are laying down a couple of hundred quid on a console rather than some silly baiting pit.
I'm quite happy to take maybes into account, they're the most fun ones to watch, my gripe was that going by the two lists posted only one platform was having its maybes considered.
I was hoping those PowerA controllers would be better but it seems not. In the meantime I've gotten the Giotek covers for my triggers which improve things immensely. I just wish they weren't so damn fragile.
An explanation which makes perfect sense, your wording above was far less reasonable however.
Ahh yeah, but sure those lists are pretty much garenteed released(Developers have said they'd be 2011 releases, just no date as of yet) maybes for the PS3 would be the likes of Agent and Final Fantasy versus. Im sure both consoles will have a few suprises come E3 etc
I never understood the point of those triggers, dont they just cover the R/L 2 triggers ? Sure they're barely used, might get a set too see what the fuss is about.0 -
If it's an external hard drive, plug it into your PC, go to My Computer, right click on it, go to Properties and in the middle of the window you should see "File System". That should read "FAT32". If it reads "NTFS" then you'll need to reformat the drive which will erase it fully and make it compatible for use on the 360.GT_TDI_150 wrote: »how do I know what way my HD is formatted?
thanks
In order to reformat it, right click on the drive again and go to Format. In the "File System" drop down box select FAT 32 and hit go.
Yep, they cover and enlarge the triggers to make them more...trigger like?I never understood the point of those triggers, dont they just cover the R/L 2 triggers ? Sure they're barely used, might get a set too see what the fuss is about.
As for them being used, well that's my own personal gripe with them. Why the hell aren't they used rather than R1/L1 for firing in games. I mean you have triggers, ****ing use them.
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