Ten reasons not to get a PS3

[fantasyjunkie]

Me? I'm going to get both systems, 360 and the PS3. I have both xbox and ps2 and i'm happy with each of them

[Loony BoB]

The only reason I can see myself playing an XBox 360 is Mistwalker. I'll undoubtedly go for a PS3 first, though.

[Flying Mullet]

As was mentioned before, gaming hardware has nothing to do with the superiority of a gaming system, it's the games. See Genesis vs. Nintendo (not Super Nintendo), N64 vs. Playstation, XBox vs. PS2 and just about every other Sega system that came out with superior system performance a year or two early.

[Raistlin]

Samuraid, Kane, and ed get kudos for pointing out the bull[img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img].

The fact of the matter that Sony has consistently had the best games. No matter what kind of games you like, the Playstation will have a ton of them. XBox has failed to have a good gaming library. Thus, the PS3 is the superior choice. The only other future console I would even consider getting is Nintendo's, because that's a guaranteed three or four games that I want to play (Mario, Zelda, etc.), but I probably won't because I don't even play all the games I want to play right now for the PS2, the only console of that generation that I own.

[edczxcvbnm]

I will say that the PS2 controller is the worst system if you want to play a good FPS game. The controller sucks for it. Plain and simple it sucks at FPS games. The analog sticks are not placed well enough to make it easy to use both of them at the same time all the time. That is one aspect where the X-Box is unbeaten. The 360 controller will probably be the best this generation.

[Zante]

I don't care which console is better, I prefer the one that has the better games. For me, that's sony. I don't quite get what the point of all this fanboism is. You don't like a console? You don't buy it. It's as simple as that, no point in proving how much either of them suck, imho.

And also:

one reason to buy one...
- FINAL FANTASYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Quoted for truth.

[Russielloyd]

I did know webpages with every single spec to the consoles.

I'll try and find it for the people who can bitch and moan about compairing the the two....

EDIT:

Here's the PS3:

Product name: PlayStation 3
Logo: PLAYSTATION(R)3

CPU

Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

GPU

RSX @550MHz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines

Sound

Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell- base processing)

Memory

256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz
System Bandwidth
Main RAM 25.6GB/s
VRAM 22.4GB/s
RSX 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
SB< 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)
System Floating Point Performance
2 TFLOPS

Storage

Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1
I/O
USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1
SD standard/mini x 1
CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1
Communication
Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)

Controller

Bluetooth (up to 7)
USB 2.0 (wired)
Wi-Fi (PSP)
Network (over IP)

AV Output

Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI: HDMI out x 2
Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1

Disc Media

CD: PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD, DualDisc, DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)
DVD : PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
Blu-ray Disc: PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE

I cant find anythig on the XBOX as detailed as that, so ill just post the PS3 specs for now.

[Shoden]

The controller of the PS3 is the best thing about it! it doubles as a weapon!


When you're playing games and sister walks in, pause game and threaten them with the controller!

[Samuraid]

I cant find anythig on the XBOX as detailed as that, so ill just post the PS3 specs for now.

Wikipedia is your friend. It has the complete and updated specs for both systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ps3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox360

[Slothy]

I will say that the PS2 controller is the worst system if you want to play a good FPS game. The controller sucks for it. Plain and simple it sucks at FPS games. The analog sticks are not placed well enough to make it easy to use both of them at the same time all the time. That is one aspect where the X-Box is unbeaten. The 360 controller will probably be the best this generation.

It's all opinion, and differences in hand size basically. I've never had trouble using both PS2 sticks at once, and I personally didn't like the Xbox control stick placement very much on either controller. That said, FPS games are always slow and innaccurate because of anaolog sticks compared to a keyboard and mouse in my opinion. Since my PC is fairly new, I've got no problem playing any FPS's currently on the market, so I'll stick with that. That said, I'm hoping companies include keyboard and mouse support for PS3 and 360 FPS games. With those USB ports there, there's no real reason not to.

[Pouring Rain]

*is still gonna buy PS3* *total sony fan*

[Russielloyd]

I wonder if the PS3 controller will act as an Boomerang aswell. Throw it at someones head and it comes back so you can continue playing your game.

That would be cool.

[Miriel]

I don't get it. Why not just have both?

[Lindy]

Because of fanpersons.

[Yew-Yevon]

I will say that the PS2 controller is the worst system if you want to play a good FPS game. The controller sucks for it. Plain and simple it sucks at FPS games. The analog sticks are not placed well enough to make it easy to use both of them at the same time all the time. That is one aspect where the X-Box is unbeaten. The 360 controller will probably be the best this generation.

sorry but i'd rather have both stiks in thumbs reach and side by side then have a stick on one side, the dpad on the next and a stick above the dpad sorry but the xbox configeration dosent exactly fit FPS...controler S isnt much diff exept for the size ....which looks more organized to you?