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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.. |
did you know that microsoft knew last year that one of their major updates would fry a good chunk of current systems, yet made you pay $100 to fix it? id say a good 75% of the xbox's out there that are not covered under warrsnty. i have worked at a gamestore the past 2 years, over that time i have talked to or seen HUNDREDS of people in the store or over the phone that their xbox's have the RR's, the disk drive is shot, ect. I have seen less than a dozen from the ps3 side. and even if your covered under warranty, thats still a month you have to go without the system. even if they fix it, its not "fixed", they just extend the life of the xbox, i have friends that have gotten it fixed, then a year later it craps out again. Microsoft also sell's "refurbished" 20gb pro systems with 1 yr warranties. We dont recomend them, 75% come back within 30 days fried and the people end up buying a new one or switching to ps3. And the xbox is the most delicate system in the world, one small movement will destroy the disk inside, it will carve a pefect circle into the disk. i see people come in almost once a week with this problem. you wanna know who much it would cost microsoft to fix this problem? just under a dollar per system, but they dont.
you do know anyone can write stuff up on wiki right?
PSN could be as good as XBL, but sony wants to have "free gaming online", which in turn leads to less features
i have both, im not a big gamer, i prob play them each once a week. if there is a game im going to play multiplayer, i buy it for xbox, if im just going to play single player, i buy it for the ps3. they both have their problems, i just hate the 360 fan boys who think its the best thing out there. from a value stand point, there is no argument that the ps3 is the better value in the short and long term. and no im not a ps3 fanboy, i actually really dont like the controller lol.
im havin fun with this thread
