Comments on: 360 Officially Outsells Original Xbox Worldwide

By: STRANGER

STRANGER — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:21:04 +0000

I WANT TO BUY A CONSOLE BETWEEN XBOX 360 AND PS3 HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Bo

Bo — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:35:36 +0000

I personally own both consoles, and although I’ve had my flings with the PS3, I always seem to end up coming back to the 360.

It may be just because I’m more comfortable with the feel of that specific consoles controller in my hands or some other strange reason, but I find myself enjoying myself longer and keeping myself entertained for longer when playing my 360.

The only thing my PS3 is used for these days is for Home, a bit of Pixeljunk Eden to pass the time, and the occasional SOCOM 3 session. All my other hours are spent in Left 4 Dead, Rock Band 2, and Gears of War.

Each console has it’s own ups and downs, so I can’t really say which is better. Everyone used to say get the PS3 for it’s RPG collection, but I haven’t been thrilled with anything NEW that’s come out. And the backwards compatibility is nice, however it seems that they are phasing it out with each new SKU.

If your a movie buff with a nice HD TV, I’d say get a PS3 just for the Blu-ray drive. Other than that, it’s pretty much a wash since all the AAA titles are being releases on multiple consoles anyway.

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:50:09 +0000

Alright, sounds good…. but Im still left wondering which one to get L

maybe i should buy both and just end the confusion

By: kinadian

kinadian — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:15:51 +0000

Brad,

Sony has mentioned many times that the PS3 will have a 10year life span. That doesn’t mean that the PS4 won’t be out until 10 years after the PS3 came out but I do not expect them to launch the PS4 until close to the end of that 10 year span. Considering the PS3 is just over 2 years old now, I’m guessing we have quite a few years of PS3 life left before the PS4 is out.

Plus Microsoft has said that the 360’s life span will be at least one day longer than the PS3’s.

So I would say you’re safe to look into a current system now and even a year or two from now. You’ll still get lots of time with the system before the next generation is released.

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:11:34 +0000

Yea I agree. I havent yet to buy a console, but Im thinking I might go with a PS3. Im thinking the 360 is already being pushed somewhat to its upper ends while the PS3 is still being explored for its fullest potentials, but hecks, talks of a PS4 and Xbox 720 are buzzing…but who knows.

By: kinadian

kinadian — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:06:06 +0000

Brad, that’s what I was thinking.

The 360 has a perceived momentum that is far greater than reality. Perhaps things aren’t as rosy as Microsoft has us to believe?

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:55:19 +0000

Hmmm took a while for it to…. maybe the novelty of the original Xbox made it such a big hit in the past, but the 360 has proven some decent ground and I expected it to sell faster considering its gaming power, but that’s that.

By: wiccanpie

wiccanpie — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:48:03 +0000

Why would you want to do such a thing? Compare Apples to Apples?! (Yes I’m aware we’re comparing 360’s to original XBoxes) but come on – that’s not how the statistics page of any article reads!

By: kinadian

kinadian — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:34:14 +0000

That means that the 360 accomplished the same amount in 3 years that the original Xbox did in 4 years. Honestly that isn’t as much of an improvement as I was expecting. Although it appears that the 360 will do quite well in the next couple of years.

I think a better comparison will come in a year. I think it’s always better to compare on an equal time scale.