PS3 surpasses Xbox 360 Worldwide!

[Mirage]

I cannot stand advertising on a paid service.

Watching television must be a harrowing experience.

That's like complaining about advertisement on the internet when you've paid for your internet access. You pay for the method of bringing the signals to your house, not for the channels themselves.

If you want TV channels free of advertisement, those exist, if you're willing to pay for them. Just like you can avoid advertisements on some web sites if you pay for them.

[Old Manus]

That's like complaining about advertisement on the internet when you've paid for your internet access. You pay for the method of bringing the signals to your house, not for the channels themselves.

You could say that about any subscription service.

It was a tongue in cheek remark btw, I don't actually care about Quin's media habits.

[Quindiana Jones]

It was clearly a personal attack. Someone ban Manus.

[Slothy]

To support the people who spent time making the game?

Use of a PS2 emulator doesn't necessarily mean that you pirated the game. Not that it matters anymore since the odds of finding a brand new, sealed copy of a PS2 game is pretty low. You can't even argue that buying the PS2 is supporting Sony now.

Also, backwards compatibility doesn't magically improve the graphics, so even if the PS3 played PSX and PS2 games you would still end up with the same "I can get better graphics and access to save states on my computer" scenario.

The PS3 does play PSX games still, and it does improve the graphics. Though I doubt it's nearly as much as the emulators out there and still no save states of course.

[Mirage]

That's like complaining about advertisement on the internet when you've paid for your internet access. You pay for the method of bringing the signals to your house, not for the channels themselves.

You could say that about any subscription service.

It was a tongue in cheek remark btw, I don't actually care about Quin's media habits.

I don't believe you and choose to believe that you are just really really really really dumb.

[NorthernChaosGod]

My housemate moving in with his 360 has pleased me immensely. I now have the best of both worlds.

I can't stand the 360 controller though... it just doesn't sit right in my hands. Though it's probably because I've been using Playstation controllers since 1997.

What? The 360 controller is like the most comfortable controller ever.

[Bolivar]

I have to say it gets more or less as uncomfortable from a long session as the dualshock, really.

[Bubba]

My housemate moving in with his 360 has pleased me immensely. I now have the best of both worlds.

I can't stand the 360 controller though... it just doesn't sit right in my hands. Though it's probably because I've been using Playstation controllers since 1997.

What? The 360 controller is like the most comfortable controller ever.

You're probably right. However, having used the Playstation controller pretty much exclusively since I was 15... anything else is gonna feel weird.

[Loony BoB]

Yeah, I have to agree on that one. I also find that having the analogue sticks in different locations to each other is really awkward on the 360 controller. I can get used to it easily enough, but I still find the PlayStation variants more natural when it comes to positioning of the various buttons/sticks. The 360 controller is smoother, though, and I do like that when it comes to looks. I'm hoping the PS4 controller is very similar to the PS3 one, but smoothed out. That would be nice.

They are both still great controllers, though, when you compare them to old-school stuff.

[NorthernChaosGod]

You two have funky hands.

[Loony BoB]

Hands are, for the most part, symmetrical... so I prefer the layout of controllers to be the same. I'm not saying the 360 is a bad controller at all, nor that it's not comfy, just that the layout of the buttons and sticks etc. doesn't make much sense to me, while that of the PS3 does. I wonder what the thinking behind the design was?

[NorthernChaosGod]

That actually feels much more comfortable to me, my hands get tired or cramped from a Dualshock style controller eventually.

[Loony BoB]

But the right side has the stick low while the other one has the stick high. Do you still get cramp on your right hand, or...? I could understand what you're saying if both sticks were high instead of being both low like they are with the PS3 controller, but the 360 controller is half PS3-design, half-not.

[Mirage]

What, loonybob. You don't use the right stick nearly as often, that's why you don't cramp up. seriously do you even game?

[Loony BoB]

I obviously play different games than you, because I use both sticks almost constantly... especially in games where the right stick controls the camera. I more often than not have my thumbs on the sticks at any time I'm not using the buttons for whatever reason. It's the 'default' position, if you like.

Of course, I haven't had cramp from overgaming since I was about 13-16 years old. I guess I have developed a resistance to it. xD