what should i buy for my kids a ps3 or xbox 360? why?

Question

i like to play ps2, my kids r 11,11,9 and 5...which one is worth the money ..wondering if ps3 is worth 500.

well my kids do play outside! They do lots of activities outside of school. Ya know saying kids should go outside and play is like telling us adults to get our a*sses of the puter and exercise. They have a Wii and love it..

Answer 1

none...cos then they will hate u and love that....

Answer 2

The PS3 does not have more games than the Xbox 360?! Don't know why a previous poster said that.

If it is between the 360 and PS3, I would say go for the Xbox. There just isnt that much available for the PS3 at the moment, and from what is available, most is of low quality.

Also, You can play online with the 360 as well, but for a gold membership it will cost about $60 a year.

One thing I should stress, most (not all) games for Xbox 360 and PS3 tend to skew towards older teens and adults (i.e. mature content)

Answer 3

As another answerer suggests, try and see if one system has better suited games.
The Wii does spring to mind at first for younger gamers.
Speaking from a PS3 perspective (i haven't got a 360 so i'm not overly sure as what it has in store.) it does have some games coming shortly that may appeal, such as;
Ratchet and Clank Future: tools of destruction,
Eye of judgement (uses the new eyetoy),
Singstar,
as well as plenty of sports titles.
Depending on how liberal you are (to be honest i don't notice age ratings too much) there will probably be more games than i've mentioned.
Also, though a lot of games that have gone cross-platform (i.e appear on both), there may be some series you enjoy on PS2, but newer versions will only appear on PS3 (like Final fantasy, ico/shadow of the collossus...)
Maybe worth noting you can also password protect age restricted games (so if your 5 year old gets hold of your copy of GTA4, they wouldn't be able to play it without your password (assuming you'd set it up beforehand))
Short answer, yes, it is worth the money.

Answer 4

Well since they have a wii, I would still suggest a 360 over a ps3. Mostly due to the fact mostly everything at the moment is cross system and ps3 has less games than the 360. Unlike what the previous poster said. The best way to decide i guess would to go through a list of games with your kids and see which system they would have more interesting games in. And at the same time make your own list for games you wish to play. :\

Answer 5

Actually,Misty, The PS3 cost less in the future. It has free online, when 360 cost $20 a month. When you get a 360 your riding a tightrope, because 30% of them have problems. PS3's have a .2% problems. As for the 360 having better games, their best game, Halo, has just released it's last installment. So as your kids older the ps3 will have the better games.

Answer 6

PS3 has a lot more games than Xbox 360. Plus, the PS3 doesn't require you to pay for extras such as online gaming.

Personally, I hate video games so I wouldn't think a PS3 is worth $500. An Xbox isn't worth whatever it costs either. I still have a Genesis though.

Answer 7

Let's compare PS3 and XBOX 360:

Almost a third of XBOX 360 are malfunctioning right from the start. PS3 return rate is only around 0.2%.
Let's compare them

PS3 has 7+1 kernels in Cell processor, Xbox 360 -only 3x2
PS3 uses advanced tech called Blu-Ray, one disc can store up to 54 gb (in the future - up to 200 gb), Xbox 360 - regular dual DVD (9.5 gb).
Calculations per sec - PS3 - 51-billion-dot-product-operati... per second
Xbox 360 - 33.6-billion-dot-product-opera... per second
PS3 has full media support - USBs, built-in card reader (except 20 gb version), ability to use printer and so on.
Xbox 360 has USBs and only 2 memory slots.
PS3 supports up to 7 Bluetooth Controllers
Xbox 360 - up to 4 Controllers
PS3 - wi-fi included (except 20 gb version)
Xbox 360 - wi-fi will cost you around 100 $

Graphics are stronger in PS3, due to RSX chip, that was developed by Nvidia exclusively for PS3. To estimate its power (roughly) - take 8600 Ultra nvidia graphics card, multiply it by 2 - get a result, still PS3 stronger, because 8600 Ultra runs on 400 Mhz and RSX runs on 550 Mhz.

PS3 has a chip from AGEIA company. It does to physics of the game same thing GPU (videocard processor) does to graphics. This card is on sale for PC. The price is around 350$.

Xbox 360 is widely known for so-called "red ring of death" problem - it gets overheated easily. My PS3 was running for more than 8 hours non-stop with no problems. Sometimes Xbox 360 becomes so overheated, that thermopaste on CPU melts, drips on motherboard and successfully shortcircuits it.

Besides all of this, I've seen disassembled Xbox 360 - regular PC architecture - Billy Gates is an uninventive nerd (as usual).
When I saw disassembled PS3 - it was a surprise - smart architecture, good cooling (don't buy external PS3 coolers - they make everything worse - original system is good), etc.

In 2008 we'll get more than 300 games, including Metal Gear Solid 4 and other great exclusives. Here is the great link to the future PS3 releases. http://ps3.ign.com/index/release.html......

PS3 online world will be free, Xbox 360 - you have to pay.

In some countries people call Xbox 360 "Coffin 360".

The funniest thing, that right now there are no games for PS3, that show full potential of the console.

Sony expects PS3 to stay on the market for, at least, 7-10 years.

I didn't mention Wii, because it's so weak, no point to talk about it.

Answer 8

Buy them an Xbox 360. It's funner, the Playstation 3 is for like, hardcore gamers. The Xbox 360 is just a really good console with alot of fun titles on it.

Answer 9

buy a wii instead because you can move around and do really fun Gama's..plus it's cheaper then a PS3 and a x-box 360....anyway threes a new x-box coming out at Xmas

Answer 10

None. Make your kids go outside to play, lest they grow enormous fat behinds and get diabetes.