360 or wait for PS3?

**lars573** · 05-24-2006, 17:33

I've already got a 360. But with my game rotation being in the PC phase I'm not using it much right now. But once I get a 32" LCD Samsung HDTV I'll be using it again.

**Fragony** · 05-25-2006, 12:21

PS3 will have higher resolution, fun if you have a good tv. No way I am going to pay 600 euro for a console though, you can buy a good pc for that amount of money.

**Bob the Insane** · 05-26-2006, 17:51

I bought a 360 in Feburary. It was my first ever console. I have been a PC gamer since Microprose F19...

I bought the 360 because 1. I now have friends who are into consoles and theywhere getting it. 2. Live in the US for a while means I have picked up a big ass sexy LCD HDTV. 3. For the first time here was a console that was not going to be out of date the day it was released compare to PC tech...

While I still fully intend to keep up my PC gaming I have found the 360 to be a lot of fun and the visuals of the best games are comparable to the PC. The (wireless) controller is real nice if a little to tempting to aunch across the room when a game gets really fustrating ...

I have it linked up to my wireless network so it is always online and I have linked it to my PC so a can play music and see pictures stored on there (you need Windows Media Centre on your PC to be able to stream videos).

I can rip CDs to it, download free demos and movie trailers to it and plug my IPod into it too listen to my favourity tunes while playing... (PGR3 to the sound track of Days of Thunder, oh yeah... )

You can message your friendles and setup chat rooms with voice (and video soon I believe)...

Then there are the games and to be honest they are a mixed bag... Some are fantastic namely Ghost Recon, PGR3, DOA4, Call of Duty 2 (identical to the PC version at max settings), and the holy of holies.... Oblivion....

Others are still fun but seem a bit like XBox ports with better textures... Perfect Dark Zero, The Outfit....

The sports games are good so far and a friend has just got the Rockstar Table Tennis game and is raving about how good it looks and plays and how seemless and fun the online play is...

Add to the fact the with Windows Vista coming along and XBox Live blending into Anywhere Live so you will (I think) be able to play you PC games online with your same gamer tag and play online against PC gamers and 360 gamers in the same game seemlessly in the future it is all good...

I am not PS3 naysayer, it may end up being the best with the best games and unlike BetaMax, Blu-Ray might take off. Worst case senario is that I end up with two games consoles next to each other... But I think the reality will be that the the next gen consoles will be much the same and and the games that play on all of them withh look and play pretty much identical on all of them...

360 is here now, it works, it has games and lots of nifty features and it looks great on my 40" Sony LCD HDTV...

**Avicenna** · 05-26-2006, 19:31

What about the WII? At least it's going to be something different, with the motion sensing technology. Personally I'll wait till their all out, then decide which to get or to stick with the PC.

**AwesomeArcher** · 05-26-2006, 21:07

Got to go with the PS3, the 360 hasnt impressed me. They screwed up badly and tried to rush the games out. Madden 06 screwed up horribely. The game was so incomplete. It only had play now and horrible Franchise mode. So ill stick it out and wait for the PS3.

**Ab Urbe Condita** · 05-27-2006, 01:15

Originally Posted by Tiberius

What about the WII? At least it's going to be something different, with the motion sensing technology. Personally I'll wait till their all out, then decide which to get or to stick with the PC.

I think it's pretty much a given that he's going to get a Wii in addition to one of the other two. He does, after all, have a soul.

**Favre** · 05-27-2006, 01:21

Xbox360 no doubt.

The ps3 seems to have roughly the same graphics - even with HD. Nothing more special than the Xbox

**AwesomeArcher** · 05-27-2006, 05:01

Originally Posted by Favre

Xbox360 no doubt.

The ps3 seems to have roughly the same graphics - even with HD. Nothing more special than the Xbox

But what is your reason for choosing the X-Box 360, if you say they are the same, how can you say that you will no doubt get the 360.

**Geoffrey S** · 05-29-2006, 17:08

Originally Posted by Fragony

PS3 will have higher resolution, fun if you have a good tv. No way I am going to pay 600 euro for a console though, you can buy a good pc for that amount of money.

Same here. Though it's tempting to get a console, by that time I'm out of home and no way I'll have enough cash for a console and a decent PC; the latter will be far more useful for me when studying.

**Leet Eriksson** · 05-31-2006, 10:56

get the xbox 360, it has a nice line-up of games.

Not only is the PS3 expensive as hell, but sony will only ship a million units so good luck finding one. Also MGS4 is the only game thats interesting, and seeing the trailer, it most probably will be released 2008 (it shows at the end 2006, then it scribbles it to 8 then back to 7, if thats any indication, no way will kojima get this game in time for 2007).

**John86** · 06-01-2006, 00:46

Thanks everyone, Im pretty sure im getting a 360.

**doc_bean** · 06-01-2006, 10:54

On a side note: Assassin's Creed is more than likely comming to the 360 too. So all the PS3 has going for it now (as far as confirmed games are concerned) are MGS and FF.