PS3 or Xbox?

[Gamazson]

Time for the Game store employee to step in.

XBOX 360:

Has a considerably larger game library. The system is targeted towards a 15-25 year 'Frat Boy' demographic. The majority of the 360's titiles are created with this group in mind as such just about every game is built to be action heavy and online compatable.

Right now the 360 is second most common console in north america second only to the Wii, which is only ahead because that console is designed and geared to non-gamers, excluding Nintendo buffs of course. The 360 has improved allot in the last two years with HDMI ports now standard and it has reduced its 32% failure rate to 16% (which to me is still bad!) Will not be able to keep up to the PS3 graphically in a couple of years.

Playstation 3:

The only full-spec blue ray player on the market. $1000 dollar blue ray players released at the same time as the PS3 are now obsoulete due to massive updates to Blue-Ray firm ware that PS3`s have been able to keep up with due to updates. Online play with PS3 is free but not nearly as well organized as XBOX Live and the machine will update regularily.

Thanks to the blue ray disk and PS3`s super powerful CELL prossesor the PS3 will kick the 360`s butt in graphics department and game proccesing very soon, but this extra power means that developers will need to spend twice as long in game development. Although the hardawre is all new Sony has thankfully been keeping qauilty control in check and the PS3 has never had a failure rate above 5%.

Unfortunatly Sony and the developers have lost sight of the importance of `plug & play` gaming. Many titles on the PS3 require a 5 gig install before you can play them which is annoying, especially to people who primarily rent games.

THE DECIDING FACTOR:

Find out what games that are out and in development that will be exclusive to either system. Look at them carefully and decide which of those you are more likely to play and enjoy. That is best way to decide the system for you.

If you go PS3 I strongly recomend giving rachet and Clank future tools of destruction a try. That game will not disapoint.

Do not look at Mass Effect as an exclusive for 360. It will soon be released on PC and Bioware ahs made soem massive changes based on fan and critic feedback. Essentialy they are treating the PC verison like a trial run for Mass Effect 2.

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AKA Nexus