people in that sort of situation where they just want a console to play games with their mates will always go for that option considering the price and the fact the games come out first for the 360 usually.

TITS!

Just for comparisons sake lets take the 80GB PS3 (which is to become the ‘lower’, standard model) price and a 60GB Xbox price (comparing the Arcade Console doesn’t count, it may only be £130 but it’s got no hard drive, which you WILL need eventually).

game.co.uk:

Xbox 360 Pro with Pro Evo 2009 – £179.99
PS3 80GB with Pro Evo 2009 – £309.99

ZOMG you say? that’s £130 difference.

Now lets see where it gets interesting.

Xbox LIVE Subscription – £40.00
Xbox charge and play kit (unless you have UNLIMITED batteries) – £14.99
Xbox Wireless Bridge – £54.99

That’s £110 in accessories. For me, and many others I’d imagine, those accessories would be a necessity.

PSN Subscription – £0
PS3 Mini USB Charge Cable £0 (one in the box)
PS3 Wireless Capability – £0

£20 difference. That’s all folks. Not to mention that the PS3 is a Blu-Ray player (it’s an under used format, but it still has it built in should you want to) too. 20GB bigger hard drive as well.
Oh, and lest we forget, that LIVE subscription is a year only, so next year, you’ll be charged again. It’s a cheap service (lil over £3 a month), but it’s not free.

So the PS3 is more expensive – but not by much, and you get more memory and a blu-ray player chucked in for £20.

And hard.

Like a midget Ross Kemp.

The people who have both of the systems (sorry wii but nobody likes you) also say that the controller has i’s issues of not being fitted to a hand. I’ve grown up with the Playstation controller ever since I was three, with my beatiful PS1 (I still have it!) and that’s why I don’t have a problem with the controller, but the people who have 360’s argue that their controller is almighty and awesome but some of the buttons just don’t make sense with me. When my friend says “HIT X GOD DAMNIT! YOU’RE GOING TO DIE!!!!” I naturally press the button that feels right to me, I press A or whatever it is and I die and my friend freaks out.

So really the xbox has a lot of things going for it and that’s why people in Japan are buyig more 360’s than their true native system (again sorry wii nobody likes you) the PS3.

Also with the LBP situation it seems that EB Games (the Canadian equal of Gamestop) is giving out a costume pack instead of just Kratos. It comes with Kratos, Medusa and the Minotaur costumes as well as a sticker pack of these characters.

This is the American TV ad for the pack,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATnpmQwghRA&feature=related

I am on my 7th 360 now the red ring of death used to haunt me whenever I played Halo 3 or Gears online and it always happened at the worst possible times. So far my PS3 has had no issues what so ever, the console is far better made and tons more solid than the 360 ever will be. I am sorry but someone slotting together a 360 like a piece of Lego somewhere in Mongolia doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence.

I would like to say here I am not a fanboy what so ever and I do feel both consoles have alot to offer but the gap between the two is getting smaller and continues to do so every time the PS3 is updated. At least I can feel safe knowing I can play my PS3 for marathon sessions without it just dying mid game.

People need to remember the 360 has been around alot longer than the PS3 now and it has an already established fanbase, when all is said and done the PS3 has only just started to walk so please don’t ask it to run before it is capable of doing so. Good things can, will and are happening for the PS3 but if people just keep focussing on the negative stuff then what chance does Sony have of making that black box something truly special like we all know it is.

Patience is a virtue my friends, use it well.

Because i have a ps3 and its region free, had i had a 360 i couldn’t of played it.

I have both a 360 and PS3 and play both in roughly equal measure. Although the PS3 has a fair amount of catching up to do overall, this year wasn’t exactly vintage for either console.

For every Halo 3 (actually 2007…), Braid and Gears of War 2 you have an MGS4, Wipeout or LBP on the PS3. I challenge anyone to look at this year’s line-up for both consoles and say that the 360’s is far superior. It’s just not. If anything it’s the other way around.

I agree Sony have messed it up in terms of pricing and marketing (and will suffer for it), but for me 2008 has not been a let-down (maybe because my expectations were a little more realistic, though). There have even been a few nice surprises such as Siren and Valkyria Chronicles which I really didn’t expect. Granted, they’re not exactly AAA titles yet they’re still decent exclusives.

The news about LBP has been blown out of all proportion. Losing Tekken 6 and FF XIII were much more damaging to Sony in my eyes. LBP will still be released soon, it’s still got fantastic reviews and still not on Xbox.