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Ryan
I am planning on buying a new gaming console for my house. Which is better Xbox 360 or PS3 and why?
Answer
The PS3 is the obvious choice here. In short, it has better reliability, multimedia capabilities, a large list of exclusives and more coming out in 2009 and in the future, it will have over-the-top graphical capabilities (google âHeavy Rainâ). And to those who say the Xbox 360 is cheaper, well then just look at the following list:
With the PS3, you get:
-A Blu-Ray player, which if you wanted one of equal value would blow at least a $700 hole in your wallet, plus a mean DVD-upconverter
-Free online service, the Playstation Network, which is only a few steps behind Xbox Live these days
-An ever-growing list of exclusives, like Resistance 2, LittleBig Planet, Motorstorm: Pacific Rift, Metal Gear Solid 4 and in the future: inFamous, Killzone 2, God of War 3, Uncharted 2, L.A. Noire, Heavy Rain and Massive Action Game (M.A.G.âin which over 256 players will be able to play on the same map at the same time)
-More flexible in terms of hardware, e.g. swappable HDD, USB mini cable, etc.
-Built in, superior Wi-Fi
-Web browser
-A super sleek system complete with chrome trim and a slot loading disc drive
With the Xbox 360, you get:
-DVD Player/upconverter
-Xbox live, which is $60/year, and not even worth it
-Halo 3 and Gears of War 2 (thatâs a lot of exclusives compared to the PS3, if you ask me: P)
-Ummâ¦canât really say anything about non-proprietaryness, because Microsoft inflates the prices for their accessories.
-A 1 in 3 failure rate (it's not "if", it's "when")
-Many people are on their 5th or 6th 360's already because of RROD, and my friend is on his 11th!
So hereâs a quick run-down of what you must buy with the PS3 and 360:
PS3:
Console $300
Game $50
Controller $55
Charger $2-10--any USB mini cable will do
Total: $407
Really, if you bought all the things the PS3 offers SEPERATELY, you would be able to buy roughly 3 PS3's with that money.
Xbox 360:
Console $300
Game $60
Controller $60
Play and Charge kit x2 $60
Xbox Live $60
Wi-Fi $100
Total: $640
Thatâs not cheaper, so get a grip on it! Sony said that they made the PS3 to last a decade. The multi-platform games are using about 25% of the PS3's graphical potential. So there's lots of wiggle room in the future for much more brighter, detailed and massive environments.
On the other hand, most multiplatform games are using about 98% of the 360âs potential. And they look about the same. At this rate in 1 year, the PS3 will have outshone the 360 graphic wise. Itâs just that the 8-core Cell Broadband Processor is very complex, and takes developers time to get used to. And they are getting the hang of things. The PS3 has a very good reliability rate: only 0.2% failure rate (note the decimal), while Xbox 360's have a 30% failure rate. So, for every 1000 of both consoles produced, 2 PS3's are defective, whilst about 330 Xbox 360's are defective. The numbers speak for themselves. Many game developers have OPENLY stated that in the near future, and right now, they will use the PS3 as a lead-developing platform, and then they will port the games to the 360.
Also, many Xbox fanboys will say "Sure, LIVE is 60 bucks a year, but you get what you pay for." Isn't this like a Sony fanboy saying "Sure, PS3 is a 100 bucks more, but that is *pretty much* all you pay for?
So in conclusion, the PS3 is betterâyou get the most bang for your buck, and it's an incredibly advanced all-in-one home media center hub. You can even install Linux or Windows XP and use it as a computer-legally! While with the Xbox 360, Microsoft will ban your 360 from certain things, if you install the OS at all (just try to bypass the security).
Hope this helps!
The PS3 is the obvious choice here. In short, it has better reliability, multimedia capabilities, a large list of exclusives and more coming out in 2009 and in the future, it will have over-the-top graphical capabilities (google âHeavy Rainâ). And to those who say the Xbox 360 is cheaper, well then just look at the following list:
With the PS3, you get:
-A Blu-Ray player, which if you wanted one of equal value would blow at least a $700 hole in your wallet, plus a mean DVD-upconverter
-Free online service, the Playstation Network, which is only a few steps behind Xbox Live these days
-An ever-growing list of exclusives, like Resistance 2, LittleBig Planet, Motorstorm: Pacific Rift, Metal Gear Solid 4 and in the future: inFamous, Killzone 2, God of War 3, Uncharted 2, L.A. Noire, Heavy Rain and Massive Action Game (M.A.G.âin which over 256 players will be able to play on the same map at the same time)
-More flexible in terms of hardware, e.g. swappable HDD, USB mini cable, etc.
-Built in, superior Wi-Fi
-Web browser
-A super sleek system complete with chrome trim and a slot loading disc drive
With the Xbox 360, you get:
-DVD Player/upconverter
-Xbox live, which is $60/year, and not even worth it
-Halo 3 and Gears of War 2 (thatâs a lot of exclusives compared to the PS3, if you ask me: P)
-Ummâ¦canât really say anything about non-proprietaryness, because Microsoft inflates the prices for their accessories.
-A 1 in 3 failure rate (it's not "if", it's "when")
-Many people are on their 5th or 6th 360's already because of RROD, and my friend is on his 11th!
So hereâs a quick run-down of what you must buy with the PS3 and 360:
PS3:
Console $300
Game $50
Controller $55
Charger $2-10--any USB mini cable will do
Total: $407
Really, if you bought all the things the PS3 offers SEPERATELY, you would be able to buy roughly 3 PS3's with that money.
Xbox 360:
Console $300
Game $60
Controller $60
Play and Charge kit x2 $60
Xbox Live $60
Wi-Fi $100
Total: $640
Thatâs not cheaper, so get a grip on it! Sony said that they made the PS3 to last a decade. The multi-platform games are using about 25% of the PS3's graphical potential. So there's lots of wiggle room in the future for much more brighter, detailed and massive environments.
On the other hand, most multiplatform games are using about 98% of the 360âs potential. And they look about the same. At this rate in 1 year, the PS3 will have outshone the 360 graphic wise. Itâs just that the 8-core Cell Broadband Processor is very complex, and takes developers time to get used to. And they are getting the hang of things. The PS3 has a very good reliability rate: only 0.2% failure rate (note the decimal), while Xbox 360's have a 30% failure rate. So, for every 1000 of both consoles produced, 2 PS3's are defective, whilst about 330 Xbox 360's are defective. The numbers speak for themselves. Many game developers have OPENLY stated that in the near future, and right now, they will use the PS3 as a lead-developing platform, and then they will port the games to the 360.
Also, many Xbox fanboys will say "Sure, LIVE is 60 bucks a year, but you get what you pay for." Isn't this like a Sony fanboy saying "Sure, PS3 is a 100 bucks more, but that is *pretty much* all you pay for?
So in conclusion, the PS3 is betterâyou get the most bang for your buck, and it's an incredibly advanced all-in-one home media center hub. You can even install Linux or Windows XP and use it as a computer-legally! While with the Xbox 360, Microsoft will ban your 360 from certain things, if you install the OS at all (just try to bypass the security).
Hope this helps!
How long will Blu-Ray be around?
Michael
DVD stayed on top for about 10 years. Will Blu-Ray follow the same trend and be OK into the year 2020ad?
Yeah, I agree that there will be no more solid media systems to replace BluRay. I have converted many of my DVD's to digital media files on my computer.
Answer
It's hard to say... It's been a long road, Blu-Ray won the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray war in early 2008 and went into 2008 Holiday season very strong. Slowly we're seeing new releases being discounted to near DVD prices (e.g. The Dark Knight special editon DVD was only a few dollars cheaper than the more featured Dark Knight Blu-Ray edition earlier this month).
Someone made a short list of benefits of DVD and listed the format being recordable as one of them. Blu-Ray writers are on their way! Also many of the Blu-Ray players on the market now support a little known format called AVCHD. The AVCHD format calls for High Definition video burned to a DVD+R/DVD-R disc. Meaning if you have an HD camcorder you don't have to invest in a Blu-Ray burner in order to burn your High Definition home movies and watch them on your HDTV.
As far as technology goes. We've kind of reached a limit with High Definition. We're dealing with limitations of the human eye. Blu-Ray movies sold today can output at a max of 1080p (24 or 30 fps) that means 1920x1080 pixels refreshed 30 times per second. For a HDTV smaller than a 65" screen at average viewing distance (~12 feet) you can't really improve beyond Blu-Ray and benefit people.
Technical facts:
Consider that high-end digital projectors used in movie theaters have a native resolution of: 4096 x 2160 and project on an average 55.8 foot (672") screen. a 56" HDTV (large by today's standards) would be 12x smaller than that and yet displaying a resolution of 1920x1080!
What that means is with 1080i/1080p HD the picture quality for a well calibrated HDTV at optimal screen size (around 61" for average viewing distance) will exceed the picture quality of movie theater grade digital projector by a little more than x2! You're getting a better quality picture at home and you could given go up to a 100"+ screen with a 1080p projector and still exceed movie house quality. That's really just how good Blu-Ray is.
The real problem with this technology is people not having large enough (or well calibrated enough) HDTVs to show off it's resolution advantages.
HDTVs will continue to get better at displaying 1080p (namely through improved refresh rates and contrast), but I doubt the 1080p standard is going to be boken any time soon and that means Blu-Ray is safe.
Now if we see a major break through in Holographic television or something, Blu-Ray may go away.... but that's a long ways coming.
It's hard to say... It's been a long road, Blu-Ray won the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray war in early 2008 and went into 2008 Holiday season very strong. Slowly we're seeing new releases being discounted to near DVD prices (e.g. The Dark Knight special editon DVD was only a few dollars cheaper than the more featured Dark Knight Blu-Ray edition earlier this month).
Someone made a short list of benefits of DVD and listed the format being recordable as one of them. Blu-Ray writers are on their way! Also many of the Blu-Ray players on the market now support a little known format called AVCHD. The AVCHD format calls for High Definition video burned to a DVD+R/DVD-R disc. Meaning if you have an HD camcorder you don't have to invest in a Blu-Ray burner in order to burn your High Definition home movies and watch them on your HDTV.
As far as technology goes. We've kind of reached a limit with High Definition. We're dealing with limitations of the human eye. Blu-Ray movies sold today can output at a max of 1080p (24 or 30 fps) that means 1920x1080 pixels refreshed 30 times per second. For a HDTV smaller than a 65" screen at average viewing distance (~12 feet) you can't really improve beyond Blu-Ray and benefit people.
Technical facts:
Consider that high-end digital projectors used in movie theaters have a native resolution of: 4096 x 2160 and project on an average 55.8 foot (672") screen. a 56" HDTV (large by today's standards) would be 12x smaller than that and yet displaying a resolution of 1920x1080!
What that means is with 1080i/1080p HD the picture quality for a well calibrated HDTV at optimal screen size (around 61" for average viewing distance) will exceed the picture quality of movie theater grade digital projector by a little more than x2! You're getting a better quality picture at home and you could given go up to a 100"+ screen with a 1080p projector and still exceed movie house quality. That's really just how good Blu-Ray is.
The real problem with this technology is people not having large enough (or well calibrated enough) HDTVs to show off it's resolution advantages.
HDTVs will continue to get better at displaying 1080p (namely through improved refresh rates and contrast), but I doubt the 1080p standard is going to be boken any time soon and that means Blu-Ray is safe.
Now if we see a major break through in Holographic television or something, Blu-Ray may go away.... but that's a long ways coming.
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