Leckomaniac wrote:I would like to ask some Zoners for their opinions on both systems. I know this has been beaten to death, but if I could get some quick feedback that would be great.
I mostly play:
Sports games, sci-fi/action games, RPGs.
Thanks everyone.
Madden & the majority of other sports games are out for both.
Final Fantasy will be coming out on both next year.
The 360 has quite a lot of RPGs (Infinite Undiscovery, Fable 2, Lost Odyssey, Tales Of Vesperia, Star Ocean: The Last Hope...). The PS3 only has a handful at the moment.
Sci-fi/action is kinda broad. Most action games are multi-platform.
The ps3 has Uncharted, God of War... The 360 has Gears of War, Alan Wake (when it's ready)...
The 360 probably has the majority of sci-fi games, but that's because every other game is a sci-fi FPS.
The 360 definitely has the most FPS games.
The PS3 comes with wireless out of the box. The 360 doesn't.
I recommend using an ethernet cable if you want to play games online. I don't know if the ps3 comes with one (the 360 does), but you can pick one up for next to nothing anyway.
The PS3 has a built in internet browser. The 360 does not.
I've no idea how useful the browser is, or how up to date.
The 360 has Netflix & is about to get facebook, last.fm & Twitter functionality for Gold subscribers. As far as i can tell, they are doing things like this instead of porting IE8.
The 360 can stream media from your PC, but it has no option to save .mp3s & .avis from usb drives or networked computers. You can use this to stream albums as a custom soundtrack to whatever game you are playing.
The PS3 has the ability to save media from other places onto the hard drive. I've no idea if it allows custom soundtracks to be played.
Both have USB storage compatibility. The 360 will not write to an external device, but can read media from them.
Both have some level of usb functionality. They both support usb keyboards. The ps3 also has mouse support.
The latest ps3's have 2 usb ports. The 360 has 2 usb ports on the front & one at the back.
Neither come with HDMI cables.
The ps3 comes with Composite video & Stereo audio cables.
The 360 comes with Component & Composite video cables & Stereo audio cables.
The 360 has currently has backwards compatibility, but not for every xbox game.
The ps3 currently has backwards compatibility for the majority of PS1 games only.
Sony are talking about bringing stereoscopic 3D functionality for games & movies.
I think the only game on the market right now that has that functionality is Invincible Tiger, but it has the stereoscopic option on the 360 as well, so who knows...
Obviously, the ps3 comes with Blu-ray.
That's about all i can think of right now.
EDIT: i see my timing was a bit off.