The (fairly) Big Debate
05/12/08 15:36
This is a blog post mostly written out of annoyance to some people I go to school with.
As we all know out of the top competing consoles these days there is certain rivalry between them, in this particular case I mean the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3.
Rather like many useless arguments such as the PC and the Mac and whatever else.
I own a Playstation 3 and I purchased this console because it was an offer at a reduced price with a game I really wanted to play, the reason I took the Playstation 3 over saving for an Xbox 360 was because A. This console has free online capabilities for multiplayer with other users and so forth. Alot of people with argue to me that “the xbox live is better”, but really how?
They both do the same thing. Both have video and audio chat, buddy lists in and out of game. Both allow you to team up with other players in and out of game to do things. But you have to pay for this on xbox live. People will then argue “but it isn’t that much”, so.. if there’s another console out there for around the same price tag which has online capabilities for free. I would not see the point in buying the one which you have to pay for. B. The Playstation 3 is more reliable, this may not be the same in certain cases though I have seen more red rings of death on a friends Xbox 360 than my Playstation 3, why I believe this is? the shape of the Playstation console is bigger than that of the Xbox, this is just seen as “bulky” or a “george foreman” but logical. If you want a processor or hard drive to work efficiently at its best capacity, It needs to be cooler, not cramped within the case which from my point of view looks like someone sat in the middle of it. Microsoft, rather like they do with there operating systems such as vista. Have gone rather for the style element of the console more than performance.
Though the biggest argument on the xbox’s side of the fence is games. There are generally more popular games for the Xbox than the Playstation 3. In which Microsoft, being the greedy cunts they are, sign contracts with companies such as bungie so they can only play there games on the xbox. “Software without walls”, No.
So its really catch 22. You can buy an xbox for all the great new games which are being released or buy a Playstation 3 for the performance and free online.
Yes I could go out and pay more money on an xbox 360 elite which has a bigger hard drive and has been painted black. But don’t you think thats enough money spent on a console which at the moment I wont have much time to play as a year 11 student.
I’m sorry if I may have offended Xbox 360 users in this blog post. But I honestly felt that I needed to get my opinion out to people about this. I have a friend who I regularly play on his Xbox with and I would class it as a good console.
This is mainly a go at some of the people who I go to school with who steriotype the Playstation 3 before they go to sleep holding there Xbox.
Thanks
As we all know out of the top competing consoles these days there is certain rivalry between them, in this particular case I mean the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3.
Rather like many useless arguments such as the PC and the Mac and whatever else.
I own a Playstation 3 and I purchased this console because it was an offer at a reduced price with a game I really wanted to play, the reason I took the Playstation 3 over saving for an Xbox 360 was because A. This console has free online capabilities for multiplayer with other users and so forth. Alot of people with argue to me that “the xbox live is better”, but really how?
They both do the same thing. Both have video and audio chat, buddy lists in and out of game. Both allow you to team up with other players in and out of game to do things. But you have to pay for this on xbox live. People will then argue “but it isn’t that much”, so.. if there’s another console out there for around the same price tag which has online capabilities for free. I would not see the point in buying the one which you have to pay for. B. The Playstation 3 is more reliable, this may not be the same in certain cases though I have seen more red rings of death on a friends Xbox 360 than my Playstation 3, why I believe this is? the shape of the Playstation console is bigger than that of the Xbox, this is just seen as “bulky” or a “george foreman” but logical. If you want a processor or hard drive to work efficiently at its best capacity, It needs to be cooler, not cramped within the case which from my point of view looks like someone sat in the middle of it. Microsoft, rather like they do with there operating systems such as vista. Have gone rather for the style element of the console more than performance.
Though the biggest argument on the xbox’s side of the fence is games. There are generally more popular games for the Xbox than the Playstation 3. In which Microsoft, being the greedy cunts they are, sign contracts with companies such as bungie so they can only play there games on the xbox. “Software without walls”, No.
So its really catch 22. You can buy an xbox for all the great new games which are being released or buy a Playstation 3 for the performance and free online.
Yes I could go out and pay more money on an xbox 360 elite which has a bigger hard drive and has been painted black. But don’t you think thats enough money spent on a console which at the moment I wont have much time to play as a year 11 student.
I’m sorry if I may have offended Xbox 360 users in this blog post. But I honestly felt that I needed to get my opinion out to people about this. I have a friend who I regularly play on his Xbox with and I would class it as a good console.
This is mainly a go at some of the people who I go to school with who steriotype the Playstation 3 before they go to sleep holding there Xbox.
Thanks