Whats your favorite pro-Xbox 360 / anti-PS3 argument?

Question

In the spirit of having some more fun with this silly "next-gen war" debate, what argument do you hear that just makes you laugh out loud?

My favorite is the sour grapes argument..."We don't need all that extra crap that the PS3 comes bundled with."

That one always makes me laugh because the price to get all that stuff separately for the 360 pushes the cost way past the price of a PS3. And, because if the 360 had all that stuff, the same fanboys who "don't need that crap" wouldn't be able to shut up about how great it all is.

PoohBearPenguin: That extra room on the Blu Ray is already coming into play. Heavenly Sword almost filled that disc with audio. On DVD-9 they would've had to use text boxes instead of spoken dialouge.

GTA4 will be on multiple discs for the 360 and Ubisoft said they are having trouble fitting Assassin's Creed on one disc.

Although, I predict Blu Ray will win the format war, it doesn't really matter to most PS3 owners. What matters is having 50 gigs to make big expansive games on.

Sir Charles: I actually own all three systems. I like all three systems, too. But, I love how far outside of logic some people have to go to make their argument. It's funny to me.

So this questions was about having a little fun with that...Thanks for playing!

Answer 1

The question asked was: Which system is better? PS3 or 360, and why? My favorite response was from someone who said that Metal Gear Solid 4 was being made for the 360, and what got me really laughing was that it's going to come out for the 360 first.

The humor in this is that there has never been any footage of MGS4 for the 360. So far, all Kojima have shown are PS3 footage, so I don't know why he would think that MGS 4 is going to the 360 first.

At the time that he posted this, it was the near or the start of E3, and everyone knew that Kojima was going to make an announcement that MGS 4 would be a PS3 exclusive.

To add to your statement, gamers may not need the HD-DVD and all that other stuff, but developers certainly do. Just ask Rockstar and their troubles they've been having trying to fit everyone on a DVD-9, if it's even possible.

Answer 2

I don't know. I really don't think putting wifi into the PS3 was necessarily a good idea - especially if Sony was concerned about the PS3's price. Yes, buying the adapter separately, as you would for the 360 (or Wii) is slightly inconvenient but not everyone is going to need it, but everyone pays for it anyways.

The Blu-Ray/HD-DVD drive thing is really just a red herring. Seriously, what does blu-ray do for the PS3 other than turn it into a cheap movie player? With a format war going on, most consumers - even the home theater folks - are not interested in either format for movies right now. If blu-ray fails to conquer the video market, Sony still won't be able to drop the drive from the PS3 because all games are on blu-ray discs. This would result in the PS3 remaining fairly expensive due to these now specialized parts.

Sony continues to claim how blu-ray is "required" for next-gen games, but that too has yet to actually be proven. Even Sony's biggest games, Resistance: Fall Of Man, and Heavenly Sword could have both been released on DVD with no loss of content. Meanwhile, the 360 has had no problems fitting games onto a single DVD. The one exception so far is Blue Dragon, a RPG taking 4 DVDs due to all the movie scenes it includes. Of course, multi-disc RPGs are nothing new. There were even some multi-dvd games for the PS2.

I know Sony can never drop blu-ray from the PS3 - doing so would not only doom the PS3, but the entire blu-ray format. However I did think when Sony was creating their latest low-cost PS3, the wifi adapater would have come out. But, no, instead Sony goes and whacks backwards compatibility- one of the few things that actually made it buying a PS3 worthwhile!

It's pretty sad when Microsoft can now claim their console has better backwards compatibility than than Sony's. You could argue that this too was a feature that not everyone wants, but was being forced to pay for. However, unlike the "missing" features for the 360, you can buy those items to add them in as you see fit. In the case of the PS3's PS2 backwards compatibility, Sony removed the last PS2 chip from the new 40GB PS3, and has said there will be no backwards compatibility for this PS3. Ever. No download, no add-on, no nothing. Basically, if you want backwards compatibility, buy the 60GB PS3 while you can. It's the by far the best deal now. When it's gone, we'll be left with the crippled 40GB PS3, and the overpriced 80GB one. Gee, thanks, Sony.

Answer 3

I LOVE the 'no games' argument.

Not because it's not true...the 360 has a bigger, better library. I love it because it requires normally rational people to narrow their perspective and pretty much shut off their forward thinking.

When people make the 'no games' argument, they have to completely ignore Warhawk, Resistance, Heavenly Sword, Folklore and the string of great multi-platform titles you can play on the PS3. Then they have to ignore the big list of titles, both exclusive and multiplatform, that will be out both this year and next. Even when the game libraries even out, hardcore 360 fans will still be treating PS3 fans like poor gameless orphans.

I also snicker at the 'graphics' argument too. That's another one that requires no perspective.

Since the dawn of gaming, multiplatform games have been developed for the weaker system and ported over to the stronger one. That's why so many multiplatform PS3 games are just ports of 360 games...and thats why they look pretty much the same. Meanwhile, PS3 exclusives like Heavenly Sword and Resistance have better graphics than anything on the 360...with the exception of Bioshock.

We need more fun questions like this one.

Answer 4

The one argument (if you can call it that) that ALWAYS makes me laugh is Xbox 360 owners mention of the one game over and over and over....

HALO 3

Lmao... what if you're not a First Person Shooter fan? Then what? Is that ALL the 360 has to offer? HALO 3????

Which by the way... the game didn't get such great reviews.

I can never understand that... everytime a 360 -vs- PS3 thread comes up, you can be certain that you will find the words HALO 3 in the thread at least 19,564 times... if you're going to make the argument that the 360 is way better than the PS3 based on ONE GAME I think that's pretty sad.

oh yeah... and by the way, I OWN an Xbox 360... actually, I've owned THREE (3) of them thanks to all the software and hardware problems I've had with it.

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Answer 5

That's one of my favorites too.

The other two is how we "lost" all our exclusives. The only exclusive we really "lost" was devil may cry. GTA was always on Xbox it was just a delayed release. X-box has some final fantasy games too. You haven't heard them mention how Lost Planet (360 exclusive) is now jumping to PS3?

The other is the lack of games/graphics arguments. PS3 has anywhere from 2-5 games a week that have been coming out since August. And if you notice all the multiplatform games have basically the same graphice but the PS3 exclusives (Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Resistance, Heavenly Sword, Lair, Motorstorm, GT, Folklore, Ratchet & Clank, etc.) have much better graphics and detail,

The last is when they say "Ps3 sucks because you have to buy a fancy HDTV". Well guess what, if you don't have one you know you are dying to get one and if you don't have one you better get one because in case you haven't noticed. . . .everything is going HD. Its just too bad Microsoft isn't innovative and cutting edge enough to realize it.

360 fanboys are basically the homophobes of the videogaming world!

Answer 6

I think it's the 'Blu-ray is a red-herring' to paraphrase a previous answer.
Couple this with MS decision not to include a hard drive as standard, and it doesn't take a genius to work out what is going to cripple the 360 in the long run.
The PS3 already has several games making use of the Blu-rays extra space.
Didn't the PS2 start with games on CD-rom.........

From the guy who said, '640k ought to be enough for anybody',
Happy disc-swapping!

Answer 7

OK, so you've obviously invested in a PS3 and are getting tired of all the criticism you're getting.

I'm not Anti-PS3, but I do own a 360. XBOX Live turns every game into a great investment. I can't say anything about the PS3, cuz I've never used it first-hand.

I don't see what the big deal is. If you're happy with what you have, be happy with it. The ones who have it good don't bother getting into this petty argument. You can choose not to respond to the taunting. That's preschool crap...

Answer 8

Mine is xbox live. For some reason having a free online game place is so much better for the PS3. When you do the math for a year of Xbox live it comes out to like 14 cents a day!

It also makes me laugh that everybody thinks the Xbox 360 is going to die off. (it might die, but thats another issue). Microsoft just followed sony's game plan. Come out first, to get a better game library. PS2 didn't "win" because of better graphics, or online play. It won because it has more games! Thats how the Xbox 360 is going to win!

Answer 9

These are my favorite:
1). We have Halo and you don't (that's it - gaming evolution is over and we don't need more games)
2). Xbox 360 is more stable (for real, I heard that one!)
3). PS3 is... just lame (really informative)
4). PS3 is for nerds, 360 is for real gamers (Dilbert rulez!).
5). 360 has 3 kernels and PS3 only two (educational).
6). Microsoft provides nice support (bulls eye!)
7). Pricing (exactly, what you've mentioned)

Questions like "Xbox 360 vs. PS3" are making me sick, why people don't bother to searcn Y! Answers or just read Xbox section with constant complaints about RROD and scratched discs!

Very good question! 8-)))

Answer 10

My favorite is the one that says 'The PS3 is so much more expensive than my 360..'.
Um, no it's not, let's compare pricing a little, 360 Pro/Premium =$349.99 + wireless adapter $99.99 + Xbox Live Gold $50/yr. + HD-DVD Drive $179.99 + Wireless Headset $59.99 for a total of $739.96.
60 GB PS3 with built-in wi-fi, blu-ray drive, free PSN (online) = $499.99+ $24.99 bluetooth headset (assuming you don't have one for your cell phone) for a total of $524.98.

That one always gets me. The other one, is the when the xbot fanboys mention the failure rate of the PS3. A whopping 1% when the 360 has a failure rate of over 35%.