[Blackbirdws6]

Originally Posted by Slow-V6

I got my Elite when it 1st came out in 2007 and it has a HDMI port! You hear people bitch about the RROD but at least it is covered under warrenty. Every other week there seems to be a post about someones PS3 crapping out on them and they have to shell out 150-200 dollars for sony to fix it. Hell Updates on the PS3 have fried systems. I would rather have a system that doesnt break at all but I already had a PS3 break on me and had to purchase a used one from EB games with there stupid 40.00 extended warrenty. My Elite is still alive and kicking without an issue and I recently sold my Feb 06 model Xbox that is still working fine. Its a piece of mind to know that you have a warrenty and wont have to worry about it if the system breaks. I had the confidence in my 1st PS3 and spent the 500.00 on it without purchasing a extended warrenty and 4 months later it broke and the factory 90 day warrenty was up!

as far as the PS3 coming with everything already installed and the Xbox you have to addon that is the point. The Xbox is made for everyone. You choose what you want to have on it. If you want a 20,60,120,240, or no hd you choose, if you want wireless you choose, if you wanted the HD Dvd player you bought it for extra. This is how they make the xbox cheaper then the PS3 and how a person who doesnt care about all the extra B/S and just wants to be a gamer can afford it.

And as far as the car buying comparison you gave. You bought a 08 Pontiac and have a F-body.. If you were so worried about reliability why not buy a Honda? Instead you buy a brand new car from a company that is extinct a year later!!

Kudos on that info you found. Must have taken sometime to find that. I just googled Next gen and got this website. http://nexgenwars.com/ but according to Wikapedia the PS has sold 27 million world wide and the 360 34 million world wide as of OCT 09. You are a devoted PS3 owner. I am not. Sony has screwed me over once to many times with the PS3, hell even with my old TV. And as far as this thread goes it sounded like he wanted the best racing game out there and that happens to be on Xbox.

Nobody is saying that you cant play online with the PSN. I just hate not being able to invite friends to play games while I am playing the game or like in GT5 Pro not being able to setup races with my friends or just not being able to find my friends to race them. I also hate having to back out of games to do ****. The PSN is just so far behind it seems. Its like whenever XBL gets a new update it takes a year for the PSN to catch back up but then it is to late and XBL is out with new features.

And as far as the HD DVD/BR thing I love them both. I dont buy BR's because I have Netflix and I would rather buy the Matrix Trilogy on HD DVD for 10.00 then on BR for 80.00 while they both have the great picture/video quality. I was actually happy when they quit the HD DVD format because the price of those dvd's dropped by like 95%. I own maybe 10 BR movies and over 100 HDDVD's and probably spent close to the same money on those 10 BR movies that I did on the 100 HDDVD's


Well let me get back to some Forza 3. I am going to take my 02 black WS6 and do a nice motor swap in it. Its so nice having a game with you exact car you drive in real life in the game. especially when it is snowing out or just crappy weather like it is today. A friend of mine on XBL has the GTA and is suppose to be pretty quick. I setup a race for tonight so I hope he shows. This is all in Forza 3 of course and this friend also has a LSX turbo 88 GTA in real life. So cool. I hope my Forza WS6 can take him because my real WS6 cant touch him..

Looks like I hit a nerve but regardless, your posts continue to be heavily biased and your comments one sided.

I'm sure those original MS customers who bought the first Xbox 360's liked that their consoles did not come with a HDMI.....no biggie, just go buy another system or an adapter.

When I got my PS3 (First gen), it came with a 1 year warranty. I'm not sure how you got screwed on a 90 day warranty. I'll trust that you spoke to people regarding this but all of these carried a one year IIRC. I only know this because the extended warranties were useless in the first year since it was covered by Sony for manufacturing defects. Buy a 3-year from XYZ retail outlet, they tell you to call Sony if it's within the first year but they will cover any extra cost for parts/service to fix it.

This data was not hard to find and took me all of 2 minutes doing the proper google searching. You do know a lot of info on Wikipedia can be modified openly right?

Of course you will hear about those that their PS3 s^&t the bed. Like anything else, you hear more of the negative than than positive. No one posts on an open forum "PS3 still running...Woohoo, thank you Sony!". Regardless, the failure rates are no joke. I don't wish the RROD on anyone but it just seems like its a matter of time. MS was not even considering fixing this issue but were "persuaded" by a large class action lawsuit due to the rampant failures. That's a black eye that will take quite a while to recover from.

Variety in the ability to purchase a next gen console is certainly nice but in the end, you are probably going to spend the money for the things you decided not to purchase up front. Wireless should be included in all systems, unless you love running super long ethernet cables all over your house. If your router lives in your play room, then that's great but I doubt that's the norm. What extra BS is included in the PS3? A blu-ray player...oh wait I'll just go buy a separate stand alone unit for at least a hundred bucks.

Is the failure rate of my Pontiac G8 or Firebird as high as an Xbox 360? Nope, both are still running and neither have given me any major problems (stock original opti in the Bird too LOL...oh wait, maybe it won't start now). We are not talking blown engines and chassis' splitting in two. If this was the case, then you can best believe I wouldn't have purchased either of these cars. GM would have even more problems if over 50% of their cars in the past 3 years decided to suffer catastrophic failure. You are taking my reference to car purchasing too far to make it a relevant argument. Why does it make sense to compare a sports car to a economy car? Reliability certainly is important so based on the facts, we should all be playing Nintendo Wii's and looking at the sales figures, maybe we already own one of them too. Reasonably speaking, a purchase of a PS3 is a much more sound decision from a reliability standpoint than the Xbox 360. You don't have a leg to stand on.

I can invite friends to games while in-game, done this on resistance and burnout. Have you tried simply tapping the middle OS button on the controller and it will bring you back to the menu without jumping out of the game. For a FREE service, I do not have any issues with it.

So all of the great movies worth watching were created during the time of HD DVD? Sigh....I'm glad you enjoy your HD DVD's at a reduced pricing but this should look good next to that BETA player you have in the basement.

Enjoy your Forza, I'm sure its a great game but it's not a reason for me to spend the money on a Xbox 360. Does everyone buy a console for one game? I'm sure you didn't so it still comes down to which games I want to play. I can wait until GT5 comes out and sure it won't be perfect and it will probably happen in 2027, but that's why I like other games on the PS3 and can play those.

Originally Posted by Slow-V6

60 gig isnt really a massive HD!!

You misread. I said you COULD upgrade the PS3 with any 3.5" drive so all those nice deals on 500GB units would fit nicely in this system. It's actually quite easy to do also. I have not reached the capacity of my 60GB just yet so I haven't felt a need to upgrade. Nice to have the option without buying another peripheral or entirely new console.

Originally Posted by NastyEllEssWon

blackbird.....final fantasy is on the xbox now too. its no longer a sony exclusive...they lost the squaresoft exlusivity with this generation

Again, it was only a reference but I can bet you most of the development time will be spent on the PS3 version. Porting can sometimes be good but I bet the PS3 version will be better.

By the way, multi-quote FTW.