I refused to watch the whole thing.

Shove it.

There is no definitive choice. Whichever one has more of the games/services you want is the one you want. Typically, for most people there is no big choice: they have their minds made up all ready. They've researched it, know the games and have been saving the money. I've found the trigger that prompts people to upgrade to or buy a new console is them seeing a game they really like in action and the decision is made there and then. Not once has someone said "hmm, do I want a PS3 or a 360?" Nor have I seen someone (or been able to) convince another person to go with another option over another. Pointless, pointless article.

If I didn't all ready own both, I suppose I would choose the PS3 as of now, based on the few exclusive titles that tickle my fancy, as I have a nice high-powered gaming PC for the majority of multi-plats. Yep, even GTAIV runs silky smooth thanks to my recent CPU upgrade, and once Fermi hits I'll be picking one of those up too so I can get my DX11 on :)

Oh, what will Cnet say? (I'm not even giving them a click)

I'd say PS3. It had the best year BY FAR in '09, it is looking to have the best year in '10, and this will probably continue on for the years to follow.

I mean, the "other console" gamers are STILL talking about Smash Bros, Halo, Gears, and Mario Galaxy. PS3 gamers are the only console owners consistently talking about NEW games and EXCLUSIVE games.

All 3 consoles have their advantages.

Honestly cnet did a decent job with this. I say buy a PS3 first exclusives reign supreme, a 360 second multiplats and exclusives are very good games, and a Wii last great for holidays and family gatherings.

get the one you will have the most fun on. People are all different with different personal views of "fun". All three offer fun in their own respected games.

You really can't choose the wrong system when it comes down to personal preference. You can, however, in the eyes of fanboys.

Free online play, built-in WiFi and BD all rolled up in one well priced bundle... Yeah, you can't go wrong with the best. Sony PS3, the best and most reliable console on the market.

To make it clear, I once was a PS360 fan but after 5 Xbox 360's dying on me I gave up on them. Now I am a PS3/PC fan.

why do you care...W/o these boys, sony pplay station will still be the best brand out there for gamers, cus they are the only one here who give what gamers want and so on en on. xbox nice try but good bay, wii well it is wii.

So what do u even care in getting sick for a bunch of crpbags that dont kno nothing!!!!pity.

Youre either rich or ignorant why in the world would you buy that many xboxes if you can simply get them repaired. just wondering

Three words: in store warranty.

I only bought one but had to return the pile of dog poo 5 times. The sixth Xbox 360 sits on my entertainment center right now and has been turned on twice since the last return. After the PS3 was given netflix I have no need to even bother turning it on.

I'm tired of people saying the Xbox has good exclusives when it clearly has mid 80's rated games at best. Gears of War 1&2 would be the exception. Halo's did not deserve a 90+ they're all hype. Forza was a 88 at best, it had extreme clipping issues which is a huge part of any competitive racer. being able to nudge a car near you off the road near you is huge and if you have to slide til you're 1/3rd of the way inside of a car to hit it, thats aweful not to mention it needed 2 discs to run the game. Left 4 Dead isn't exclusive, don't go there. Call Of Duty isn't exclusive either even if you 360 fans would like to believe it is. Halo: ODST was an overpriced expansion for Halo with a 5 hour campaign. If I wanted to shelve out 60 dollars for a mediocre campaign i'd go play Haze.

The only system that has continued to have unique titles that deliver a hard hitting experience is the Playstation 3. Now the 8-14 year olds of the world will disagree with me because they've not been around for Atari/Super NES days/Sega Genesis days. Growing up eras you realize the growth of games. Kids who are just jumping into Microsofts Xbox360 have been brainwashed and turned into foul mouth, ignorant, and incoherant youths who just swallow anything thrown at you and accept it as fact. It makes me sick -.-

Honestly, in my opinion, a PS3PC combo is the best. Almost all 360 games are released on pc. The PC version is almost always the superior version, and it has free online dedicated servers and mod support. Dedicated servers is a HUGE factor and I can't understand why a lot of 360 fans dismiss it. Maybe it's because they don't know anything better outside their laggy P2P service, I don't know.

PC might cost a little more, but honestly I see no reason to get a 360 except for maybe gears. Lucky for MS, most consumers don't find out all the facts, because if they did the 360 probably wouldn't be nearly as successful as it is.

And of course a PS3 for it's exclusives.

PS3 If you are planning BBQ. Wii if you plan to use the rest room and 360 if you are a true gamer.

So you actually think you're smarter than everyone else because you bought a PS3? What, do you think the cell somehow boosts your IQ as well?

I'll say it again, you'll buy the machine that has the games/services you want. End of story. There is no definitive console, no "high society" of eugenicist overlord PS3 owners (really, this was a pretty dumb comment, but if you hang around here enough you might get that impression), buying any of the machines does not mean that you're mentally challenged in some way. It just means you spent YOUR money on something YOU like (hopefully, otherwise you ARE a moron, or one of those people that buys things so they can complain about them).

Although Narutone sounds like that comment was a direct insult at people who buy 360, it comes with some truth.

If you buy a console that is proven to have hardware issues upwards of 50% failure rate, lacking basic frills that the competive console(S) have out of the box, and on top of that also pay for online gaming that is free EVERYWHERE else (that doesn't even utilize dedicated server), then I wouldn't blame someone for questioning your intelligence. Oh I almost forgot buying the same console over and over even after it dies on you DEFINITELY Qualifies you as a person of subpar intelligence, or at the very least of questionable judgement.

FYi I DO have a 360 but I knew what I was getting into and bought a second hand 360 with halo3, Fable 2, TopSpin 2 and Madden 08 for $100 so the risk was calculated.

"If you buy a console that is proven to have hardware issues upwards of 50% failure rate, lacking basic frills that the competive console(S) have out of the box, and on top of that also pay for online gaming that is free EVERYWHERE else (that doesn't even utilize dedicated server), then I wouldn't blame someone for questioning your intelligence. Oh I almost forgot buying the same console over and over even after it dies on you DEFINITELY Qualifies you as a person of subpar intelligence, or at the very least of questionable judgement."

Quote of the mother f*cking day. Thank you. Bubbles.

If people are truely intelligent, they will most likely be doing more productive & creative things with their minds, and not playing video games. Perhaps making the games other people play. ;-)

I say this with all due respect as one dumb video game player to all the others out there.

If you're going to have such a negative, traditional, out dated, arrogant view of video games I think you shouldn't be here. Following your logic, I could say the same about books, movies, tv and a lot of other hobbies. But it's a way for people to relax, unwind, enjoy, take yourself away from your stressful life and entre another reality for a while. If you're going to insult our hobby without any comprehension or understanding of it (because you cleary don't when you say what you did) I suggest you don't comment again.

Just because someone has nice stuff doesn't mean they are unbiased. Everyone has a preference, it's hard to be objective. I have relatives who have HD home theater setups, but I wouldn't trust their opinion for a second about what's better. I may not be able to afford a hd home theater set up as I'm still in college but I have a good deal of experience with HD set ups since I'm usually the friend that runs around with tech support and recommending gadgets/electronic.

In the end, an average consumer, doesn't matter if he's rich or poor, will probably have a hard time distinguishing the graphic difference Super Mario Wii from RC:ACIT.

I don't get it are we disagreeing on the Uncharted opinion or the own the console with the games you prefer piece? I think that the opinion on owning the console that will have the games you prefer the most is one of the best pieces of advice before making the leap into next-gen systems.

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Nevermind lol I'm just tired I see and even read some people talking of Uncharted 2; but for some reason it just didn't click in my mind. Though I still think that it is a good piece of advice, excluding the Uncharted 2 comment.

He's supposedly super rich, or at least really rich.

But he can't even afford to buy an HDTV larger than 47 inches? He can't even afford to buy a PS3 for himself?

I know people who work as electricians that have 70+ inch HDTVs.

Whether he is unbiased or not, if he has no knowledge of computer graphics then his opinion is worthless.

Anyways, here is a quick way to let your cousin's husband know that he is wrong.

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I am working on buying my first hopefully nice house, have a nice car, a really nice 56" HDTV, a 360 and a Ps3. I can be honest and say that Uncharted 2 is by far better than anything on the 360! If you can't see that you are blind!

Regardless of that FACT, if you have an nice HDTV, then it automatically makes more sense for you to get the Ps3, simply because it can play bluray movies, which will help you get the most out of your expensive TV.

It's hard to tell the difference in graphics quality on smaller screens. 47" is small these days. I have heard many people say that you need to get larger than 50" to even see the diff between 720 & 1080 resolution. With bigger screens, you start noticing lower resolution graphics.

The majority of the people who commented on my original post, including Pennywise and Gaffyh, can admit that they are moderately biased in favor of the PS3.

"I can be honest and say that Uncharted 2 is by far better than anything on the 360! If you can't see that you are blind!
Regardless of that FACT, if you have an nice HDTV, then it automatically makes more sense for you to get the Ps3, simply because it can play bluray movies, which will help you get the most out of your expensive TV."

Hey, Nycredude, it really sucks that your statement has absolutely no objectivity in it, yet you use the term FACT. People see what they want to see. I tried seeing what all the fanboys were seeing when they said that Gears of War 2 looked like crap. Guess what. I didn't see crap.

All I was saying was that my cousin's husband, who does know a lot about computers and does make a lot of money, and has absolutely no ties with either Microsoft or Sony, doesn't really see the big deal in Uncharted 2. He said he finished the game in one day. Did he go bonkers about it? No.

So, why don't you guys step outside of your little bubbles for a moment and accept that just because you think that GRAPHICS are like the BIGGEST DEAL EVER, other people couldn't care less. HE is unbiased in the sense that there is absolutely no conflict of interest for him. I tend to see that a lot of people on this site that are bashing one console or the other are always bringing up PRICE.

This guy spent maybe 2 minutes pointing out the positives and negatives of both consoles. He didn't give a crap because there was absolutely nothing in the world that was twisting his arm to make him say, "The Xbox is a failbox" or "The playstation is a delaystation." But the fanboys on this site will forever argue about stupid little things, graphics being one of them and that is probably because of some grudge they hold against the companies that make the consoles.

And let me get one thing straight. 47 INCHES is not large enough?

Are you guys serious? If I had said 50, you would have said, "60 is better."

Anyways, my point still stands.
If the only games I loved were 360 exclusives, then I would just as well have stuck with 360. And for the longest time, all I cared about was Halo, because it was fun and I had a blast playing with my friends. I could still go back to that one day.

I'm not saying that Uncharted 2 isn't great (In fact I ordered it from Amazon the other day), but what I am saying is that the rest of the world doesn't see things the way fanboys do. The average person is not going to see the major difference between Uncharted 2 and Gears of War 2 in terms of fidelity. I love games and even I had trouble with it. I'm not saying Gears 2 is better looking, I'm just saying that in terms of visuals, one wouldn't look at Gears 2 and say, "Oh, that looks terrible. I knew I should have gotten a PS3."

That in itself negates everything else you said.

Once again, I encourage you to look at these comparisons and tell me with a straight face that Uncharted 1's graphics aren't that much better than Gears 2.

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Now for your cousin's husband to say that Uncharted 2's graphics aren't that much better than Gears 2 is just PREPOSTEROUS.

No one cares about a random guy who is supposedly unbiased. He could play whatever he wants, and like whatever he wants. People just don't agree with his "opinion" on graphical facts.

@4.9 - I'll admit, I do prefer the PS3, but when I got my 360 a couple of years ago, the first game I played was Gears of War. Without a doubt it was the best looking console game I'd ever played, and it held that crown for a long time (followed by Gears 2). UNTIL Killzone 2 came along, if you actually own a PS3 and have played Killzone 2 (and now Uncharted 2), the difference in graphics is mind blowing.

Nothing that is even on the horizon for 360 looks as good as either of these games. For example, KZ2 looks so good, that in some respects e.g. atmosphere, it even rivals Crysis. Though Crysis looks amazing at high settings.

Don't get me wrong, I'm really looking forward to Alan Wake and Splinter Cell, but Xbox-only owners that argue against the PS3 in terms of graphics are fighting a losing battle, they are in the 5 stages of grief, first stage denial.