{"id":468,"date":"2008-02-17T20:46:56","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T01:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/blog\/reviews\/whats-better-ps3-or-360\/"},"modified":"2008-02-17T22:58:06","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T03:58:06","slug":"whats-better-ps3-or-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/reviews\/whats-better-ps3-or-360\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Better: PS3 or 360?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a certain (skewed) comfort in knowing that most of your writing maintains a sense of undistinguished obscurity. Odd, I know, but it allows a level of freedom not found in the Shakespeare’s of the internet. As such a person of my diminished caliber can stop, look over the landscape and unashamedly open up old internet debates while knowing it won’t turn into a flame war<\/a>. So, which is the better system: Sony’s PS3 or Microsoft’s Xbox 360?<\/p>\n


\nUp front, I can’t afford buying either of these so don’t hold that against me. I spend most of my money on my kids, my books and my pc so the fact that I haven’t committed to purchasing a system is beside the point since research is free.<\/p>\n

I’ve enjoyed different games on both systems, played the same games on different systems and have even gotten to see the systems on proper televisions (something with HDMI and at least 720p) and I can honestly say they both look good.<\/p>\n

Do The Math: The CPU<\/strong>
\nBoth machines have a nice processor (that’s the brain of the system that does a lot of the math that goes into gaming) with the 360 sporting 3 Power-PC’s processors at 3.2 ghz. That’s flipping awesome but when you compare it to Sony’s Cell chip you realize how much PS3 packs: it’s the equivalent of 8 processors sporting 234 million transistors. To give you a sense of scale the dual core Intel Chip on your mac runs 200 million transistors (and the 360 is at 165 million transistors). That’s some serious rendering power. Winner: PS3<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

You Spin Me Round: Media.<\/strong>
\n360 does sport HD-DVD which seems well on its way to winning the format wars since it’s the same size of a regular dvd and cheaper to mass produce than blu-ray (which consists of a lot of old hardware overhaul). It’s a shame because the blu-ray disc is a better format sporting more space for higher audio and graphic information but its just not looking like the final victor. Winner: 360.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Closet Space: Hard Drive Storage.<\/strong>
\nPS3 comes with a hard drive standard while the 360 doesn’t include a standard HD until higher models and then only up to a comparably small amount of space. Both systems use the harddrives for some basic stuff (360’s 20 gigs for downloading patches or older games) but the nice thing with the PS3 60 or 80 gig hard drive is that its big enough to take a partition and install Linux. Clear Winner: PS3.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

LCDability: Maximum HD Resolution.<\/strong>
\nConsidering a new tv, the PS3 wins on the range of units it can be comfortably enjoyed on: 1080p is standard on it. But admittedly there aren’t many games that are 1080p so the 1080i of the 360 and the PS3 are probably where most of us would be shopping anyway. I’ll give this winner to PS3<\/strong><\/em> even though it technically doesn’t matter.<\/p>\n

It’s Nice To Share: Media Sharing and Interconnectivity.<\/strong>
\nProbably one of the best features that the 360 sports is its interconnectivity with other windows products like Vista Media Center and the Microsoft Zune. You can effectively download movies to your pc, watch them on your tv with your 360 and then take them on the road with your Zune: that’s some serious media power. PS3 only really integrates with the PSP (which is still nice) and might have some backward compatibility with the some older systems if they ever really finalize that. Winner: 360.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Group Gaming: Playing Online.<\/strong>
\nOn the 360 you’ll have to pay to be part of the Microsoft Live network but it’s with games that are pretty much exclusively on the 360. PS3 you can play for free on the games that have online access but the fact is that not many of their games are pandering to a huge online community (of course I’m ignoring the big ones that hit every system like COD4 but honestly, does anyone want to play Golf online?). Winner: 360 with a big downer of paid playing–grow up Microsoft.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Games.<\/strong>
\nHonestly, games is where you really start splitting hairs. If you want games X, Y, Z you’ll choose one system over the other since in the end, the specs will speak against or for many of our decisions.<\/p>\n

Winner:<\/strong> PS3 based on Specs. 360 based on community. Up to you based on games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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