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<blockquote data-quote="The Souljourner" data-source="post: 3724050" data-attributes="member: 1622">(sorry for the off topic post)The PS3 is 2 years newer than the 360, of course the 360 has been outselling it.&nbsp; But you know what?&nbsp; The PS3 has sold more units than the 360 did at this point in the 360's lifetime, and the 360 was the only next-gen console at that time.This &quot;ridiculously expensive&quot; bit has got to end.&nbsp; The XBox elite is $450 (only just dropped in price) and the PS3 60gb is $499.&nbsp; I fail to see how $50 is ridiculously more than the XBox.&nbsp; Yes, you can get lower end version for $350 thanks to the very recent $50 price cut.&nbsp; It's a pretty good deal, I'll give you that, but it doesn't come with a wireless card (add $50 and an ugly dongle and say goodbye to a USB port), plus Live costs $8 a month or $50 a year, whereas the Playstation Network is free.&nbsp; And that's not even to talk about the fact that the XBox 360 is horribly unreliable hardware (up to 33% return rate), whereas the PS3 is stupidly stable and robust (less than 1% return rate).&nbsp; I leave my PS3 running folding@home 24/7 and have for months, with no hiccups at all.This has been refuted.&nbsp; Yes, the system is new, but several third party developers have come out and said it's not really any more difficult than anything else.I won't even compare it to the Wii.&nbsp; The Wii is a completely different thing (and not in a good way, I think.... if you've played it more than once or twice, you get bored of it).The PS3 is a great gaming machine with forward thinking hardware (the DVDs that games come on the XBox 360 hold a max of 9gigs of data, the blu-rays on PS3 hold a max of 50.&nbsp; There's a new game coming out for PS3 called Heavenly Sword that uses 10gigs just for the *audio*.&nbsp; Unreal Tournament 3 is coming out and won't be able to have all the maps on the 360 version, but will on the PS3 version.So... robust, stable, forward thinking... I'll take that for 4e. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-Nate</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Souljourner, post: 3724050, member: 1622"] (sorry for the off topic post) The PS3 is 2 years newer than the 360, of course the 360 has been outselling it. But you know what? The PS3 has sold more units than the 360 did at this point in the 360's lifetime, and the 360 was the only next-gen console at that time. This "ridiculously expensive" bit has got to end. The XBox elite is $450 (only just dropped in price) and the PS3 60gb is $499. I fail to see how $50 is ridiculously more than the XBox. Yes, you can get lower end version for $350 thanks to the very recent $50 price cut. It's a pretty good deal, I'll give you that, but it doesn't come with a wireless card (add $50 and an ugly dongle and say goodbye to a USB port), plus Live costs $8 a month or $50 a year, whereas the Playstation Network is free. And that's not even to talk about the fact that the XBox 360 is horribly unreliable hardware (up to 33% return rate), whereas the PS3 is stupidly stable and robust (less than 1% return rate). I leave my PS3 running folding@home 24/7 and have for months, with no hiccups at all. This has been refuted. Yes, the system is new, but several third party developers have come out and said it's not really any more difficult than anything else. I won't even compare it to the Wii. The Wii is a completely different thing (and not in a good way, I think.... if you've played it more than once or twice, you get bored of it). The PS3 is a great gaming machine with forward thinking hardware (the DVDs that games come on the XBox 360 hold a max of 9gigs of data, the blu-rays on PS3 hold a max of 50. There's a new game coming out for PS3 called Heavenly Sword that uses 10gigs just for the *audio*. Unreal Tournament 3 is coming out and won't be able to have all the maps on the 360 version, but will on the PS3 version. So... robust, stable, forward thinking... I'll take that for 4e. :) -Nate [/QUOTE]

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