We could easily add:

Multiplatform games that are released at the same time, the 360 version is better and the PS3 has problems with jaggies etc. And no, it's not only EA. Then PS3 fangirls come with Oblivion (one YEAR after the 360 version) and GRAW 2 (almost a HALF YEAR after the 360 version) or Dirt (at least 4 months after the 360 version) and shout about it being a tad better.

Try to compare those that are simultanously released. The 360 version is always on top.

you xbots suk, you know what xbot should envy about ps3, everything

Hey the mart, stop looking in the past and get your head out your arse. NOW lets look at the multiplats, because GRAW2 is better on ps3, SKATE and DIRT are better on ps3 and so is strangle hold, you look for stupid excuses, look at the future, 360 doesnt stand a chance

no one who owns a ps3 needs a 360 .. pure BS

Just more flamebait from Bloodmask... Nothing to see here...

Oh wait, one think to see. When it's good for PS3, blog is not allowed source, but when it's bashing on PS3... Well you got it. And they even says this site is full os Sony Fanboys... So how this crap get approved?

And I'm not saying Sony Fanboys are any better. They bash the same amount of news, submit crap and all... N4G needs better administrators...

Halo 3 at 640p, framerate problems, Aliasing problems, 8 hours long yeah Im very jealous!!!!!!!

Are going in completely different directions which make comparison complicated. The PSN content seems to focus more on originality with its games, with some incorporating 1080p resolutions for political reasons more than anything, whereas the XBLA are old-classics in High Definition with an Online component to distinguish them from the versions you could pick up for the e.g. SNES or 30year old arcade machine.

They both have their positives and negatives and just depends on the taste of the gamer; does he want to play his old time favourites in HD or try something new e.g. Calling All Cars, Stardust HD...

Should they really? And all the time I thought opinions were subjective :\.

360 is an automatic car not very fun. PS3 is a car with manual tranny, its a piece of artwork. Now, which one is more hard to learn at first? PS3 is a maze with many challenges that are rewarding. 360 is a simple walk in a straight line, which results in being just plain simple. Envying doesn't even exist to PS3 fans.

From a 360 owner:

I love my 360....love the experience it brings to me, and it definitely has some great, kick-@ss games...and I agree wholeheartedly with what this article has to say about the system's better qualities.

But there are some things that the PS3 has that I wish I could get on my 360:

--Reliable hardware (I'm on my 5th 360; hey, I'm entitled to be critical). Hopefully, the Falcon upgrade fixes this.

--Non-proprietary hard drives...My PS3-owning friend has added a 300GB HD to his PS3...Me, I upgraded to an Elite just for the extra HD...it was either that, or spend 2x what my friend did for his 300GB on a proprietary HD

--Built-in Wifi...$100 is a bit much for something that probably cost MS $10

I know I've opened myself up to numerous disagrees and negative feedback...but I'm being honest. And truthfully, I wouldn't trade systems for anything. I just see some qualities in the other system that I like.

5...4...3...2...

You people have been hard at work looking to slow the 360 ass whooping, don't give us that BS as if 360 fans have been for the last three weeks spending all day looking for ways to tarnish PS3 and its games.

looks like MS ran out of ideas for games. next MS step now is bringing old PS1 and PS2 in HD. that is helarious, good luck x360 fans with ur broken box. told u guys before x360 is a one game console. ONE!!!!! and it's in 640p, yet to be released in 720p with their next console in 2009.

Weird how people get wilded up over small talk they engage in lol!

Xbox Live, I'm sure we'll finally have proof that's accomplishing what Microsoft claims it is. Linux runs on PS3 for free though, so Sony has them beat in that arena. XNA is pretty damn expensive.

Sure I'm green with envy alright LOL
XBL $50; PSN Free I'm envious
Gears of war, Halo3; Haze UT3 with mods I'm really envious
Hd dvd add on ($200); Bluray built in now I'm really really envious
360 Ring of death; PS3 99% reliable your making me cry now (boo hoo)

you know how i know u and them are full of sh*t, because even the developers said SKATE was better on ps3, the devs said GRAW2 was better on ps3, and DIRT, so see you are the misfortuned one, dumbass

its not news at all. its just this losers opinion. and restating things that we have known for months.

stupid article

Those games you mentioned needed months of extra dev time to get them the way they are.

Imagine if the devs could afford to give more time to both consoles without a release window you(still have the same problem with PS3 lagging behind).

You should be thanking the 360 its making money for the devs while they get the poorer PS3 version working and looking better.

You should be thanking devs for trying to match 360's standards and for the money 360 makes devs while they try and get the less powerful PS3 in order, if it wern't for the 360 every game would be piss poor like it was last generation with all the PS2 garbage released.

" 360 doesnt stand a chance " I don't see anything matching what the 360 has done at its best as of now yet so I call BS.

- A modern looking, crash-free dashboard
- Lag-free dedicated servers (which are free)
- A free online service
- Most things you have to pay for on the 360 (change gamertag for example) are free
- A mature online community
- A future proof line-up of games on the horizon
- A less than 1% failure rate
- A blue ray player which is worth more than the PS3 itself, the 360 HDDVD costs alot on it's own
- More than 1 big name game due for release
- A web browser
- The ability to connect keyboards etc without having to buy a sh!tty msn keyboard
- A nice mix of different genres in regards to it's top games
- It looks sleek and stylish, the 360 looks like a horrible lego block and is made of cheap plastic and held together by safety pins

I had a 360 until I traded it for a PS3 last week (on the Halo 3 release date of all days) I enjoyed it for a while until I realized that the people buying them didn't want good games, they wanted shallow guns-blazing pc wannabe games like Halo and Gears with no depth at all. That's all the 360 fans will be getting as they sit on their fat asses drooling at all of the nice explosions.

I never really cared about the delayed games for the PS3...because they weren't really good games anyway...GRAW 2 is merely ok...Dirt, where the ps3 gets the version with an actually stable framerate, has terrible driving gameplay and is utterly destroyed online wise by Motorstorm...and Stranglehold, probably the most mindless game of the year...that is still out done by Max Payne 2...Vegas?...bought that because it was one of the supposed "best" shooters on the 360...with undeniably awesome online content...all of which is included with the PS3 version at no extra cost...

and it is a marginally good game at best...I have played both versions...to see if it was just the PS3 getting a weak port...and it isn't at all...both versions suffer some framerate problems...and the 360 has more pronounced bloom lighting...yet both versions have the same dastardly p2p crap online matchmaking garbage...and pretty much everyone just plays the same Calypso Casino map over...and over...and over...and over...

which brings me to my point...XBL and its content gets hailed all the time as the best online environment ever...You pay for online gaming...that is nearly entirely p2p...halo 3 doesn't even have a dedicated bank like Warhawk...You are stuck dealing with other people's connection problems...or waiting for all your friend's are on to join your created game...without most 1st party games having huge amounts of dedicated servers...that is hardly a selling point for the service to me...there is tons of content...which is great I guess...but I am hardly envious of remade old games that I have on emulators or in real form anyway (Doom?...with no keyboard?...seriously?)...I would prefer full games for download...games like Warhawk, WipeOut HD, Tekken 5, et. are what I would prefer through a downloadable service...XBL does have some great games through Arcade, just noting that what this article points out on XBL is not something that makes me miss the service...

both XBL and the PSN have their share of issues...XBL suffers from a p2p only (for the most part) gaming environment...which makes others ISPs all the more important...you will run into latency issues far more often in an environment such as this...yet the service is fully unified, with cross game invites and chat/message systems in game...The PSN is more open, and all 1st party games so far have had large banks of dedicated servers...Resistance showed right off the bat that the PSN was not a half-assed attempt like years prior...40 player online lag free, with full stat tracking/reward system for every game played...yet still isn't up to speed with the unified aspects...no unified messaging in game right now (each game has its own messaging system online, which is seperate from the xmb message system...yet Warhawk doesn't have any messaging right now...a clear sign that in game xmb is coming soon)...invites can be different from game to game...rumors have been that firmware 2.0 fixes all this with ingame xmb stuff...but none of that has been officially commented on other than "it is coming"...and its always worth mentioning that the PSN is completely free...

a PS3 owner should never be envious of a 360...or vice versa...If you own a 360, its because you wanted the games on that system...and vice versa for the PS3...its the 1st party stuff from Sony that always interested me...the 360 has arguably better 3rd party support right now...but if Halo 3 is the crowning achievement of the 360...I am happy with my decision to not own one...

They make it out like PSN doesn't have any games other than PS1 downloads. o_O It has loads of original games, not just ghey arcade remakes. Warhawk plz.

the Mart,Bloodmask,POG,Bladestar,F irstknight,Sak,Jason,and other 360 enthusiasts I couldn't find the time to type in.......but you know who you are.
Sonyboys tsk tsk tsk..................love watching
you little girlies squirm day in and day out on this site.
Seek mental help.
Get well soon(buy a 360), Peace.

Tom Cat

LOOKS LIKE THE 360 IS LOSING ITS EDGE.

3RD PARTY TITELS ARE MOSTLY GARBAGE. 360 CAN HAVE ALL THE EA GAMES THEY WANT.

sony handed another christmas to ms

lets hope kz2 makes up for it in spades, im pretty sure it will run better then 620p

I wouldn't go that far, this is the end of the PS3's first year, it'll already have Heavenly Sword, Ratchet and Uncharted by christmas time, that's a whole lot better than what MS had at the end of it's first year; Gears of Snore.

You forgot about haze, ut3, and all the multi plat games too... Also the spider man 3 movie on blu ray.. Havent seen it yet but i liked the first 2..

what a dumb article.. its only been 10 months and the ps3 already can handle all the multi plat games the 360 has and all the multi plat devs have been working on the 360 a lot longer.. 2nd gen games for he 360, 1st gen games for the ps3.. Some multi plat games look better on the 360 and some look better on the ps3..

Another thing i like about my ps3 is its a lot more user friendly.. Its so simple to access everything like the psn store, internet, download music or pictures to the hard drive.. even my gf knows what shes doing.

Anyway i could care less, I want the 1st party games and the exclusive games for the ps3 right now!!! And i want the first underworld and resident evil on blu ray right now.. lol. Oh yea i want the dualshock 3 too baby..

lame, have xbots nothing better to do than writing this bs. i thought they so much nice games ? lol, morons, they proove everytime that good games dont exist on the 360.

so what console should i get if im more interested in single player games. multiplayer is alright but i'm more into single player.

"- A modern looking, crash-free dashboard - the 360 dashboard is great looking and it has not crashed on me once.

- Lag-free dedicated servers (which are free) - i would like servers as well but P2P can be faster or slower depending on a number of factors. Plus, servers can't stay up for everas someone will have to foot the bill.

- A free online service - nothing is ever free.

- Most things you have to pay for on the 360 (change gamertag for example) are free - to stop people who usually cheat or being complete d!cks from changing gamertag, makes users more aware of said cheater.

- A mature online community - every online community has idiots in it so this point is moot and stupid.

- A future proof line-up of games on the horizon - the 360 has a bigger games libary at this time and will do for a long time.
- A less than 1% failure rate - yep the PS3 I suppose it more reliable then the 360. I'm still on my first 360. Lucky aren't I?

- A blue ray player which is worth more than the PS3 itself, the 360 HDDVD costs alot on it's own - Don't care for
HD-DVD or Blu-Ray as Holographic discs kick ass as well as downloadable movies.

- More than 1 big name game due for release - the 360 has alot of big name games coming out.
- A web browser - Use a PC please, much easier and better.

- The ability to connect keyboards etc without having to buy a sh!tty msn keyboard - agree, but not too borthed by no keyboard support

- A nice mix of different genres in regards to it's top games - actually the 360 does not have just shooters, it does have alot of different genre games, but it does need to try harder in Japan.

- It looks sleek and stylish, the 360 looks like a horrible lego block and is made of cheap plastic and held together by safety pins " The 360 in design I think looks much cleaner, nicer and overall better looking. The PS3 to me, looks like a fatty lol. Although this depends on prefrence.

Man I wish there was a quote button on this site, would make my life more easier. Anyways.

Where's the list: "2000 things 360 owners should envy the PS3 for?"

FFXIII, FFXIII versus, MGS4!

need i say more..

KILLZONe2

I interested to see what the next two years hold.........who will be proven right??? SONY FANS or XBOX fans.........the games will decide not blind loyalty..

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So many good games are out guys. Why are you all here debating this pointless argument?

Let's play!

MY CONSOLE STILL/ALWAYS WORKS.

that IS LIVING.

no other REASON can COMPARE to THAT.

"the 360 dashboard is great looking and it has not crashed on me once" - you must be the only lucky one, or a liar

"I would like servers as well but P2P can be faster or slower depending on a number of factors. Plus, servers can't stay up for everas someone will have to foot the bill" - Sony is making money, they won't go out of business

"Nothing is ever free" - Is that the best you can do? Pathetic.

"To stop people who usually cheat or being complete d!cks from changing gamertag, makes users more aware of said cheater" - cheaters get their consoles banned, changing tags makes no difference.

"Every online community has idiots in it so this point is moot and stupid" - unfortunately there are idiots in almost every game on the 360

"The 360 has a bigger games libary at this time and will do for a long time" - the 360 has been out for a year longer so you're just stating the obvious, it also has a large library of mediocre games and PC ports which is nothing to be proud of.

"Yep the PS3 I suppose it more reliable then the 360. I'm still on my first 360. Lucky aren't I?" Lol @ I suppose, you just can't speak a good word about the other console can you? it's called being a fanboy as I can see in your avatar

"Don't care for HD-DVD or Blu-Ray as Holographic discs kick ass as well as downloadable movies" - even if you don't care about it, it's one hell of a good deal.

"The 360 has alot of big name games coming out" - No, Halo 3 is already out, multiplatform games is really all the 360 has left.

"Use a PC please, much easier and better" of course, but some people don't have computers, it's a nice feature to have especially if you're travelling (most american 360 owners probably will never do this in their lifetime)

"Agree, but not too borthed by no keyboard support" - I didn't think you would be

"Actually the 360 does not have just shooters, it does have alot of different genre games, but it does need to try harder in Japan" - It need not try for Japan, their average gamer is smarter than the American gamer and requires more than an explosion or "kick-ass" weapons to be excited about a game. Halo and Gears are the 360's only top games and they're both shooters.

"The 360 in design I think looks much cleaner, nicer and overall better looking. The PS3 to me, looks like a fatty lol. Although this depends on prefrence." - I'm glad you added the last bit, the PS3 looks modern looking, the 360 is just cheap and tacky, I thought that way before the PS3 was out.

LETS NOT WASTE TIME ARGUING WITH THE REST. WE KNW WHAT WE HAVE AND WHATS ARRIVING SOON.

FOR NON PS3 PEOPLE HERE AIS A LINK TO OUR STORE.

http://www.us.playstation.c...

THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE NEVER VISITED PLAYSTATION.COM GO DO SO.

the 100 million ps fans waiting for dat 40gb for 399.99 to drop! cause all they have been waiting for is the price to go down

Everything written in that article, the ps3 can do. MS just did it before they can, which has come in their favor. nonetheless, sony does need to kick up its game- after the way halo 3 has done, its gonna be hard for almost any company to beat that.

Do people not realize that the PS3 is $600 and the xbox is what $400 for it'smost expensive model? Do you people not realize if we wanted a 360 we could have easily saved ourselves $200?! People don't seem to get that we bought PS3s for a reason not b/c we couldn't afford the 360. So why would we be envious?!

no one should read this article

its complete FLAMEBAIT

waiting to start a war of comments ps3 vs. 360

everyone BOYCOTT THIS ARTICLE and dont comment any offensive stuff torward the ps3 and 360 or other fanboy stuff

ps3's online is free and its way better.. xbox live is always crashing or there mad lag in games.. Thats was call of duty 2..

then you are a good person to admit it kudos to you....this really shouldnt be in this section heres a bubble for admitting it

faulty hardware
dvd technology
over priced accessories

I suppose most pple on this site already have a next-gen console...

I wouldnt return my ps3 because i cant play "Prince of Persia Super HD Remix of Death".

We all have Next-gen consoles because we want to play great games like Gears or MGS4

but i don't think sony has to worry about any of those issues.

sony has their own creative teams making games that are releasing or will release.while xna tools haven't really pushed for users to get their games on the system yet.it's still games like geometry wars that get noticed.and that's by a big dev(bizarre).

sony had net yarouze.and games like intelligent cube and devil dice came from that project.so it hasn't gone away.

echochrome,trials of topoq,flow,loco roco,stardust hd,eye of judgement,etc,are pushing bounderies on "what is a game?"and "does a game have to be big budget?"sony is still covering quirky original games.

as for remakes,they are coming.but i'll admit prince of persia would have been nice on ps3.that's the only game that caught my eye.i've played every classic to death over the years.and still have them.i don't just want to pay for new variations all the time.new mazes in pac man is still pac man.online contra is still the same contra i know and love.

and last,third parties support 360 because of time on market and system sales in the US.i would think both companies would receive the same support if they launched at the same time.but it isn't like ANY of these companies are abandoning sony unless they are PAID to do so.time on market.that's it.

so,out of all that,the only thing i envy,is a 2D game(love 2D).that i would say,i do hate sony for.which is almost killing 2D and forcing companies to either make compilations or you couldn't release 2D games on ps2.i can thank nintendo and my GBA for keeping it alive.ninja five O forever: http://youtube.com/watch?v=...

mag lev..................

i swear ur supossed to be on my ignore list so why did it show ur coment O.o i guess i nedd to put u there again.

games. Because PS3 got none.

Are we still trying to debate on which console is better? You sony boys don't give up, huh? Let's see here...Lair sucked...Heavenly Sword averaged 81%, 6 hours long, flopped in sales...Warhawk did well but the ugly face of the free PSN has shown itself with non stop network problems - Terrible stat tracking, almost zero voice chat, disconnects, join ingame problems, etc... More delays, More multiplatform games are better on the 360- recent winners are Madden 08 and Skate. The ps3 still has zero AAA titles!!!

While the 360 has released Forza 2 (averaged 90%), Bioshock (95%) sold about 600k copies, Halo 3 (95%) sold about a bazillion copies, PGR4 is starting to sprinkle in some perfect scores, and we still haven't seen Mass Effect or Lost Odyssey. The Falcon has already been released and should stop the RROD. And we still have Ninja Gaiden 2, Splinter Cell, Huxley, Marvel Online, Too Human, Alan Wake, etc... coming out.

What the hell is your problem sony boys??? Do you guys just like being suckers? The ps3 is getting crushed by the 360.

Well atleast you can play "Dress" in HOME. :p

There is so much crap that spilled from the execs over at Sony in the past few years, they need to put a gag order just to keep their mouths from destroying the PS3. (Opps to late my bad)

Sony just needs to do away with the so called "free" PSN and just straight up copy Live but I don't think it's going to matter at this point not with only 4 and half million consoles sold in a year. Might as well keep if free sense they only have 2 or 3 games that use the PSN at it's fullest and hell Sony floats most of the bill for that.

Sure, people have tons of sh*t to say about the 360. But it all comes down to what you guys are missing out on. I wouldn't let owning one console stop me from owning another. Why is that I (a 360 owner) have no problem considering a PS3 purchase and at the same time PS3 owners (a great majority of which are being represented here as fanboys) have to be such polar magnetic opposites and be so obstinate about giving 360 its due. I'm not here to criticize consoles and hardware, I just ain't making any money off of it.

Is it the name? Is it that PS3 owners just can't bare to see their Sony at number 3? Jeez! Could you guys look at the big picture for moment please?

-It's two older Bros. PSone and PS2 kicked a$$
-Rumble Controllers are coming
-There will be games someday
-One day PS3 owners can play house, I mean home
-Online is Free
-they can watch Blu-Ray movies while waiting for games
-They Get Final Fantasy XIXXXIIIIIXXXXIIIVVVIIII
-Metal Gear
-Final Fantasy XXIIIVVVIIXXXIIII Verses
-Did I mention Final Fantasy VVVVIIIIXXXXXXIIIIIIIXXX

I don't see why jealous fanboys have to get so uptight. 360 has got a lot going for it. The world's best developers and their ideas and dreams are coming over to experience one great machine to work with. It takes a whole team of people, and many divisions of teams, to put together great games. These people are the REAL guys who get under the hood and fire up what's really possible with the hardware they're given. If anyone really has complaints, it'll be them.

i new this was another flame war, spewed on by you guessed it a fankid. *cough-bloodmask-cough* wow. 3 reasons why people who have working minds and have made their purchases, weather it be a Wii owner or a PS3 owner, should envy xbox 360... LOL!!!! so based on someones oppinion i should just hurry and get myself a 360 because he deems it better than a ps3 or a wii. BloodMask and this no body.... please dont tell me how i should think or spend my money on my type of entertainment... i consider that an insult, seriously, because you aint my parents and you sure as hell dont sign my fukin Check. i',m not here to post reasons on why you should buy a PS3 or a wii. i'm here to give news on whats upcoming for every game console to date. please do us all a favor and pull your xbox360 loving, MS ass kissing head out of your ass and grow up. if not well shove it right up there and STFU. everyone here has a mind of there own we dont need you or any nobody telling us why we should envy a console we dont want or need...

Fankids i swear. bloodmask has totally earned an honorary spot on my ignore list welcome and congrats you freakin fankid

One should really read this. Pretty much interesting. Someone that switched from 360 to PS3 and back to 360 again... That's why PS3 fans SHOULD eveny about 360!!!

"Some people are upset about not having the 65nm CPU and are thinking about getting a PS3. Big mistake. If you are lucky enough to afford the 360 and own a Halo 3 edition console, just enjoy it.

I had a few 360's with the RRoD and got rid of my 360 in January and bought a PS3. Last week I traded in my PS3 and bought the Halo 3 Special Edition console. So why would anyone trade in a console with a 0.02% failure rate for a 360?

It's all about the games. MS has bent over backwards to get the best games for the 360 by taking away exclusives from Sony and even making former PS exclusives into 360 exclusives (Ace Combat 6). PS3 games are generally muddier than their 360 counterpart and run at lower framerates (in some cases). Games are often delayed for the PS3 and when they do come out they are generally inferior to the 360 version.

Motorstorm was shallow, Lair tanked, Warhawk is online only (half a game IMHO) and RFoM is the only decent PS3 game that has come out in almost one year. The trend of games coming of sooner on the 360 and being better than the PS3 version will continue. Whose to say that Killzone 2 and MGS4 will be great games. Most of the PS3's other exclusives are mediocre games.

After owning a PS3 for 9 months I'm happy to be a 360 owner again. The PS3 just doesn't have the games. Combine MS aggresssive push to get the best games and low PS3 sales numbers and the 360 will continue to have the best games. Sony "lowers" the price of the PS3 and then "raises" it by $100 and you get a six month old game and 20GB of extra HDD space for $100 more. Sure Sony will have different pricing strategies over the course of the PS3's lifespan but that dimwitted move shows Sony has no idea what they are doing when it comes to the PS3. After six years in the console industry, MS has dethroned Sony who reined for 12 years. That is a pretty big accomplishment.

I won't even get into how bad PSN is. Free or not, 360 owners play games and PS3 owners watch game trailers.

Enjoy your 360. Get the 2 year Extended Service Contract from MS. That will give you peace of mind for 5 years on the RRoD and 3 years on everything else as the extended warranty only kicks in when the original warranty is up. Just enjoy your 360. It's a great console with a superb gaming lineup.

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ON THE XBOX 360 YOU PLAY THE BEST GAMES.
ON THE PS3 YOU WATCH TRAILERS OF THE BEST GAMES. "

http://forums.xbox.com/7/15...

5 things devs love about 360

1)Custom ATI 500mhz "Xenos" -r600class GPU with Unified Shader Architecture

(capable of vertex pixel and geometry shader processing, efficient use of shader resources as dynamically realocated according to workload, a programmable tesselation unit, HANA video scaler)

2)512mb GDDR3 Unified Memory, coupled with GPU's 10mb FrameBuffer EDRAM

(capable of repartitioning according to developer preference; EDRAM used for its extremely fast connection to the GPU to privide ample bandwidth for a 1280x720 render with 4xMSAA, with HANA video scaler upscaling to further resolutions)

3)Custom dual threaded, tripple core IBM PowerPC CPU

(with heavily optimized assembly code compiler to provide support for IoO and VMX128 unit-similar to AltiVec, with more instructions)

4)User selectable audio preference (let's you take control of music and revert back to in game audio if wanted)

5)Hardware configurations varying in only 2 areas: HDD capacity and output connectors. Avoiding the gap PS3 creates with its configs -some with/out memory stick readers, some with/out Bluetooth, some used(not) as toaster-

(Optional extras including an external HD-DVD drive Communication Headset WiFi Adapter can be purchased separately, some included in Premium and Elite versions)

My friend has his b-day today. And it was a "Halo 3 system link party". I brought over my ps3 to show them warhawk etc. They saw how amazing ps3 was (especially when I wirelessly connected to their router and the ps3 automatically connected to the PC and accessed their videos and music etc and we played some music ^_^)

In about 10 minutes of showing just the media bar my friend (who was goin to get a ps3 just for halo 3) is now getting a ps3 and waiting till later to get 360. The wii fanboy in the room was speechless. And everyone else wanted a go at Warhawk (especially when I turned on motion control for the warhawks).

Keep in mind these are people who go to halo tournaments etc. Once I showed them ps3 they were truly amazed. All sony has to do is advertise.

One thing 360 fans should envy about ps3? - PS3 is the "complete package" (that's what they said ^_^)

Of coarse people love simple/yet really flawed technology(360).First year of the Ps3 is doing really well and has already surpassed it graphically imo.Plus Ps3 is selling faster then the ps2 did it's first year so I bet history repeats itself and MS will ditch 360 like it did with xbox for its new blunder console in the next few years.Just keep saying well at least we got the 3 year warranty LOL.

u dident write that urself did u, under a different account of course.

lol so true there is a reason why there are all sorts of rumours about MGS4 and FF13 coming to 360... in the end the only thing to feel envy about in the other systems are games. Im a Ps fan and the only thing that i envy on 360 is Mass so what am i going to do??? Hmmm let me see oh yes buy a 360 to play that game... loyalty to a system sucks dont you think fanboys??? You 360 and Ps3 fanboys call each other losers i myself call you in both sides losers

this is one of a few things i'm going to covert in to graphics.

one is part way colored and the other one i'm still thinking about
what to do with. MS helps you with copy righting your stuff and things like that.

Having a cash rich monopolistic owner/manufacturer << Microsoft >>.

Money is no barrier for greedy little Billy Gates who will buy the necessary companies, 3rd party developers and exclusives to MONOPOLIZE the game console industry as they have with Windows on PCs.

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my apology for calling Bill Gates greedy but I'm highly suspicious of his OVERAL goal in the game console market.

Microsoft made huge losses last gen and likely to still be making losses with the xbox 360.

Why doesn't Microsoft just make games? They would have made a fortune if they had made Halo for the Ps2 and NOT developed the xbox.

Remember, Microsoft has been taken to court by governments for their uncompetitive and monopolistic practises with MS Windows.

And now they are in the Console market. Think about that

The Xbox 360 will not be wanting for Cash.

If you care about any of these things you already own a 360,if you don't care you own a Wii or PS3.
It's as if the writer thinks PS3 owners can't afford a 360 Hahahaha!
Most PS3 owners already have a PC.The 360 had a year head start,and in that time people had the decision to buy what they wanted and they chose their console of choice.
This artcle is basically saying "Things Sony should copy from the 360"
Go figure.
People bought the PS3 & 360 for their own reasons.
Again ... if PS3 owners wanted a 360 they could just buy one.
Nuff said.

its true that there is nothing to be envy about from 360 except for some game titles, (which is can be change by time)
but there is the thing that 360 should envy to ps3 is the hardware (this one is hard to change)
except you get ps3.

wifi, media card reader, bluray, bluetooth ... u know, it's all built-in.
the thing that ps3 user who don't have 360 should envy only one thing, the software is backup able on DVD-R, that's it.
and If you live in my country, you can get a cheapper games for 360 for only US$4! while ps3 games is at least US50!
tell me why people buy 360? it's one of the reason.

Just like they "enhanced" TTNM and Contra...I hated how they screwed up with Contra....one of my favorite games of all times was ruined in the 360.

xbots ill feel sorry

40 players mean's better online, or more vehicles is stupid. From My perspective rofl and warhawk have a solid multiplayer better then halo 1,2 and gow, but still not better then all those combined with halo 3.

To preserve there looks.
to understand xna you have to learn C++ and C#.
xna shows you ropes on developing and deploying games on your PC and 360.

i would never ever switch to the 360 .. lol, for what games?

i enjoy the games for the ps3 and it only gets better and better not the other way around .. Halo 3 anyone?

Lair is the best example for sucking reviews. i totally like this game. it's epic, has some of the best graphics ever seen and the controls are 99% accurate. there are no framerate drops, only sometimes when there are some big explosions.

Lair : 8.5/10

Halo 3 single player : 6/10

lol. xbox 360 stands for washed out graphics and shooters with 1st person view.

plus, games like Skate control so much better with the Sixaxis. The DMC4 devs already said that the controls on the PS3 feel better than on the 360.

real hardcore gamers go for the ps3

pc guys and shooter fans can stay with their 3fixme - we don't need your place in Home ;-)

@Anego Montoya - You don't get what he's saying. Well, I might be wrong too, but I'll just say that.. how does Warhawk have more online play then Halo 3? It doesn't matter how many players are in ONE game. Say if there is 3 game on WarHawk at 40 players than thats 120 players playing but if Halo 3 had 11 games going than that 132 people playing, so if you need help with math their is 12 more people playing on Halo 3 than WarHawk.. get it? You see.. if their is both 10 games going on both Halo 3 and WarHawk that that would be 400 players playing WarHawk and 120 on Halo 3 than yea, warHawk would do more on Halo 3, in terms of people playing. And, Halo 3 has a helluva lot of customization you can do in terms of the gameplay. so whatever your probably another blind fanboy that aint gonna listen to anything anyone else has to say.. so im done

@idontcare - omg what tha f▼ck... are you serious? Your bringing up the "360 only has 1st person shooters" are you f▼cking kidding? This was already proven that their is only like 20% FPS on 360.. dumbass.. Home is gay.. I'll just go play The Sims.. on the Wii. An how the f▼ck would you know if the controls are better on the PS3? "i would never ever switch to the 360" ahhh I get it.. I'm so stupid.. Your a PS3 Fanboy.. That MUST be why the PS3 controls are better than 360.

1 nerb = 5,000 polygons

50,000 polygons = 5,000 nerbs

my pc runs faster doing 5,000 nerbs than 50,000 polygons for characters.

Maya studio is a graphics program that can work together with xna.

it's not that 360 doesn't have games.but does it have the type of games that console gamers have liked or played for the last decade.

self portrait.i'll keep it short.

i like japanese style games.always have.but most of those games are not hitting 360.it's usually token giveaways from big companies that just say"look,we made a game on 360."just like xbox.but the big guns still end up on sony's systems.it's gotten better with multiplatform,but those same games are still coming to ps3.

i really don't play online.if i do play multiplayer,it's usually with friends and family i know.no racist comments,no bad children,no lag,no cheating,no hogging or shutting gamers out of a game.don't care about achievements(achievement-clear an enemy room in 1 minute instead of 2.unless i am getting a weapon or magic item,i don't care for just a trophy).i like story based games.

don't like first person shooter games or pc games.if the top games are halo,bioshock,R6,call of duty,ghost recon,gears(plays like an fps when shooting),and i'm not into those,what does that leave me?see, when i bought xbox,i bought it for ninja gaiden,doa,otogi1-2,outrun,esp n nfl2k5(of course),bloodrayne 2.things like that.microsoft doesn't cater to that.

lost planet and dead rising are okay,doa4 is okay(but i played and bought every version),ninja gaiden 2 is many months away.why should i get a 360?with the chance that it will break on me.i have never had to send any system to a company since pong and atari(they work).why should i start now?a 3 year band-aid is not a fix.why pay for online when it's always been free?why pay for high priced accessories?

so for "ME",360 was probally going to be a second or third choice right off the bat becuase microsoft has not done it's job in japan.which they said they were going to fix the SECOND time around.

my opinion of course.

mag lev............

Warhawk isn't fun because of the amount of players alone. It has great game play and it's a WAR, so the amount of players add to the feeling. The chaos, the intensity. Always having someone to kill. Surround sound, BOMBS, EXPLOSIONS, GUN FIRE, GRENADES ...Fgkfjlfkjglkgfj ITS SO INTENSE!!!....:) That is what everyone should envy ^_^

RFOM is a great multiplayer exoerience with no lag and I don't envy Halo 3 because I have MGS4 + MGS online coming out adding to the Ps3's online experience.

wow this is an obvious fanboy post

i said when you SHOOT,to me it plays similar to an FPS.you zoom in,you shoot.the player is off center,but it still almost like an fps.

but as i was saying,if there are no skies of arcadia or ff games,no jet set radio,no shenmue(from sega of course),no onimusha,no bujingai,no resident evil,no games like urban reign,soul calibur,and if it is,but i can get it on ps3,it means i don't need a 360.just like some don't like these type of games and like the ones i don't like.so it comes down to preference.

and just on a side note,i didn't like the way microsoft kept nfl2k5 from being on 360.after 2 years,nfl blitz can,nfl fever can,madden can,but for SOME REASON,nfl2k5 can't.that speaks of letting EA have what they want than what gamers want.EA wants servers,lets give it to them.EA wants no nfl 2k5,lets give it to them.that's bogus.even ESPN games are BC accept NFL 2k5..............bullsh..!

when tons of japanese style action hits 360,and the system has gone beyond the three red lights,i might reconsider.

mag lev.....................

Just admit it, CellBE will spend its glorious life making up for the ends that RSX sloppily drops, and that makes a devs life harder since he now has to rerout his vertex ops to an SPE just to get an increase in performance. An increase that puts it up to that of the Xenons. Xenos stomps RSX to the ground. But you wouldn't know, since you suck. It's not that you can't do math, or that your lack of intelect concerns me: it's your blatant censorship of the truth.

With developer friendly features and a unified approach to both mememory and shaders, along with the emphasis on framebuffer bandwidth, the 360 is a great machine to put through the wringer that is game development.

And also, you didn't read into what I stated.

"Hardware configurations varying in only 2 areas"

Think about it: the Core may not have an HDD (or the HDMI, if older) but there's nothing else missing. The system itself is minus only 2 features, whereas PS3s can vary in up to 3.

(Memory stick/SD card slots?Just leave it in the camera/mp3 player and hook it up through USB!)

80Gb is a !@#$%^&*( stupid @#$%^& piece of @#$%^& idea!!!!!! ONLY 20GBS more, just that they could drop the 60GB to 499 and still have a 599 unit. They haven't changed anything, they're still at the same price points. Meanwhile, 360s have dropped across the board, even their Elite config. All the while implementing a new 3yr warranty, adding HDMI, and switching to 65nm process.

Now that Jim Ryan is gone just need to remove Herman Hulst from his position! And maybe give Shuhei the position he deserved.

This gen hasn't been the best for games, last gen consoles are still out there and now there's been talk of the PS6 and Xbox Two for a year or so. Many games this gen will be ported to next gen and the cycle will continue. The re-release of the Neo Geo AES+, games on cartridge for £70 ($95), gaming is going back in time. Gaming has gone pricing mad with the high cost of games, consoles and controllers. The men and women at the top are clueless.

It’s always interesting to hear behind-the-scenes stories like this, especially involving veterans like Shuhei Yoshida and leadership figures like Jim Ryan. That said, there are usually multiple sides to decisions at that level. It could be less about not “listening” and more about differences in long-term vision for PlayStation. Yoshida played a huge role in shaping the brand, so whatever the reason, his impact is undeniable.

If true, and I'm inclined to believe it is, it goes to show that Sony lost their way when they became more western/didn't respect the PlayStation origin story. Andrew House and Jack Tretton did great work, but they also didn't try to fundamentally change the PlayStation DNA. Ryan oversaw the death of Japan Studio and a live service direction.

I already figured this, good lord imagine if Shuhei took over instead, would've been a platinum era 😩

I miss the first three generations of PlayStation. The way they turned PS3 around, we knew they meant business. We were all worried for a bit there around launch. Eventually from 2008 they started shifting slowly. But since Yoshida was fired, it's never been the same. Still enjoy my PS5 daily. I got a backlog dating back to PS2 lol So I'm fine but new games aren't as appealing anymore.

It seems like we were thrown on to the worst timeline possible where everything is too expensive and the wrong people were put in positions that makes the world a shitty place. We could have had Shu as the head of PS but we got the shitty alternative. Same goes for everyone in power around the world. Doesn’t matter the company or country the majority of us got the shitty picks and the world is declining like never before. I do think PS can come out of this because of their studios, talent and IP but they need someone more in touch with gamers leading things like Shu was. They’re still the best place for console gaming imo but it could be much better than it is especially without the massive live service failures. The rest of the world I have a lot less hope for right now. Hopefully the pendulum swings back towards the good ole days but I’m preparing for the worst.

There goes illuminati distraction story

So now there's certifiable proof that Ryan was in fact "fired", as opposed to when it was first announced that he "retired", in order to save face.

There's another guy who recently "retired" as CEO of another large gaming company, after doing a dismantling job as lead for well over a decade.

seems legit, the business man, fires the one who has ideas to move the business forward.

Jim Ryan is the reason why we are entering year 6 since the PS5 launch and many of us don't feel like the PS5 has gotten started as yet.

I hope going forward, we will see a return to form.