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New xbox.

Dark Drakan said:
For media purposes and being able to use your own Hard Drive its excellent, though ive never needed anything more than TVersity on my laptops synced with my two 360's (as Media Center is to slow and laggy).
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Yeah, that's about all I used my PS3 for once I ran out of enjoying games. Just made use of it as a Blu-Ray player and it having slightly more codec support (compared to 360) for downloaded videos was nice, and being able to browse the web on it, but once I built my gaming rig with a Blu-Ray drive, there was no other need to keep my PS3 there with it taking up needed space.

However, I do regret sometimes having rid myself of my fat 60GB PS3 as it had really nice PS2 BC and some decent upscaling for them.
 
Congrats to the OP

I'm not looking to get into any ongoing debate, but I wanted to share my thoughts on the matter of XBOX and PS3.
Most games are only made in 720p, so the PS3's larger firepower goes to waste more often than not. Also consider that many cross-platform games are made with the XBOX in mind (a la Fallout 3) and translate very poorly to the PS3 release. Add to that each console's respective repertoire and you get one console with a much more diverse game selection, and another which (despite it's superior capabilities) ends up showing a product of superior, identical, or inferior quality of picture and gameplay. Seriously, it should be a crime to have Fallout 3 be so unplayable and hated by all the Sony fans.
It does have a blu-ray player, but both have netflix streaming in the same quality.
Not to mention I have yet to be able to tell the difference between a DVD and a blu-ray when I'm watching anything.
 
cheezMcNASTY said:
Not to mention I have yet to be able to tell the difference between a DVD and a blu-ray when I'm watching anything.
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Really? Unless you're still on an SDTV or simply have a really small HDTV, then the difference should be very clear.
 
cheezMcNASTY said:
Also consider that many cross-platform games are made with the XBOX in mind (a la Fallout 3) and translate very poorly to the PS3 release.
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How so? I'm just curious because I've never heard anything about that before.

cheezMcNASTY said:
Not to mention I have yet to be able to tell the difference between a DVD and a blu-ray when I'm watching anything.
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Yea, I can't differentiate between the two either.
 
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I have to say, you guys are doing it wrong.

Necromancer said:
How so? I'm just curious because I've never heard anything about that before.
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I don't recall many developers getting involved in biased development. Just the Xbox 360 is easier for devs to work on since it's very similar to developing on the PC. While the PS3's hardware and tool kit is vastly different and many devs are not that well educated on it (though some have gotten a lot better since launch).
 
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Necromancer said:
How so? I'm just curious because I've never heard anything about that before.



Yea, I can't differentiate between the two either.
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Alot of multiplatform titles were developed on 360 and ported to PS3. This caused some games to have technical issues ranging from screen tearing, bugs, crashes and choppy framerates to having to be published by other 3rd party companies like Oblivion and The Orange Box.
 
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What Drakan and Giki-chan said. I don't think I could have articulated it that well.

Gikoku said:
Really? Unless you're still on an SDTV or simply have a really small HDTV, then the difference should be very clear.
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Well, we made the transition from (near decade-old) tube TVs less than a year ago. Now we're watching on a 55" HDTV. Maybe it's because the difference is so huge from what I'm used to that I can't tell but then again... whenever I'm in a Best Buy and they have all their TVs out and you can tell which are brighter, which have more vivid colors, etc... I always feel like if I were to watch each one individually I wouldn't be able to tell the difference (apart from size).

I guess my point is that the technology has reached a limit where I'd be just as happy to own something of slightly inferior quality since the difference these days comes to a thousand dollars or more.
 
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