Xbox 360 VS Playstation 3 - The console war of the 2000s

[RashFaustinho]

This was probably the last relevant console war we had in gaming.
PlayStation 4 VS Xbox One VS Wii U was a massacre.
While PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and Switch 1/2 don't feel like they are even competing.

So Playstation 3 VS Xbox 360 is probably the last "true" console war.
Wii was there as well, but it appealed a very different market, while PS3 and X360 had the same target audience.

Most of you know the story, Playstation 3 launch was terrible and overpriced, while Xbox 360 final years with the focus on Kinect were atrocious. Both systems had high highs ans low lows.

How did you live that period? I remember having a Xbox 360, but honestly I couldn't wait to switch over to Playstation, most of my friends were there.

 

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

I went with Xbox 360 Arcade during this generation. Both systems had similar releases, with a few exclusives in-between. What was the deciding factor was the HD remakes, I'm not sure if PS3 received the amount 360 did? I did have to pay monthly to play online though, being my only gripe.

 

[Dannzy]

I've been mainly a PC user all my life and still are. However, at the time, I do remember wishing I had a PS3 so I could play some specific games on it and because by then the console was not as hard to get as a 360. However, eventually I got my own PS3 and the experience overall left me indifferent to it. I wonder what would have happened if I had gotten a 360 instead, but I am inherently opposed to paid online connection services like Xbox Live or Playstation Plus, so by now I am indifferent regardless.

 

[Glossy Cat]

I had both consoles but my close friend had an Xbox 360 so I ended up playing it with her instead. We spent hours on GTA 5 as well as Black Ops 2 even though I wasn't very good at Black Ops 2. I have some fond memories from that time.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

I started with the 360 but became a staunch PS3 supporter by the second half of the generation. As a broke highschool/college student during those times, I just couldn't with the 360's paid online.

 

[Soul417]

I was always team PS3 because PS3 had odd turn-based RPGs, while Xbox mainly had shooters, which I don't care for as much.
I remember classmates preferring Xbox 360 in school because it had "Real games, " not the Asian anime crap the PS3 had.

I like my anime art style games, so I stuck to PS3.

 

[Iguana-0]

Fuck em' PC For the win!

 

[deh]

I don't think the Xbox 360 was a competitor for the Playstation 3.

 

[CaesariusMagnum]

If you don't count sales at all and go off of vibes, Xbox 360 won that generation imo. The development architecture was better than the PS3's so a lot more multiplatform games ran better on the 360 as opposed to the PS3, (i.e. Skyrim's PS3 port.)

The PS3 did go real hard at the end of the generation though, and set them up for their success in the next generation.

 

[Steelersfan_556]

That was a weird time in gaming for me

 

[ThePeon]

I had both no im not rich it´s just I kept my PS2 for so long once I got a PS3 and 360 I got them for like 100 bucks each.

Same with the PS4 pro i have I had my PS3 and 360 for so long and played on I got my PS4 pro + 2 controller + 2 games for for 120 bucks and the PS5 had just came out.

 

[solidbatman]

mediocre action games with basic muscular white dudes with buzz cuts set in a very brown gritty world is my favorite genre ever, so i of course love both consoles /s

anyway, xbox 360 deserves a ton of credit for reinvigorating online multiplayer gaming and making it more mainstream. im not entirely sure that online gaming infrastructure ever gets as strong as it is now without the 360 to casual-fy online multiplayer gaming.

 

[valosagutas]

This was probably the last relevant console war we had in gaming.
PlayStation 4 VS Xbox One VS Wii U was a massacre.
While PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and Switch 1/2 don't feel like they are even competing.

So Playstation 3 VS Xbox 360 is probably the last "true" console war.
Wii was there as well, but it appealed a very different market, while PS3 and X360 had the same target audience.

Most of you know the story, Playstation 3 launch was terrible and overpriced, while Xbox 360 final years with the focus on Kinect were atrocious. Both systems had high highs ans low lows.

How did you live that period? I remember having a Xbox 360, but honestly I couldn't wait to switch over to Playstation, most of my friends were there.

Hmm. I understand your point but I didn't think it that way. I thought the last console war ended with PS2 and XBOX-era. I really skipped PS3 so easily due to many reasons, never even thought it would be a worthwhile investment so I just bought an XBOX 360. I didn't even care to play MGS 4 because I just didn't think PS3 was worth it so even to this day MGS 4 is the last MGS game I didn't play. Basically PS3 has like 5 games I would be interested to play on and the rest of the library didn't interest me at all. XBOX 360 was cheaper and better for me.

 

[Iguana-0]

I don't think the Xbox 360 was a competitor for the Playstation 3.

Hey welcome back! And yeah... It was and so was the Wii

 

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

Not only was it the last "true" console war, it was also the last truly good generation of games, imo. I started with a 360, and thus put a lot more time into it, but I did eventually get a PS3 later down the line for some of the exclusives. Overall, and personally speaking, I'd say the 360 ending up winning (Yes I know PS3 ended up selling slightly more overall but that was only after multiple price drops while the 360 was fairly consistent the whole time). 360 was WAY better for anything multiplayer and the whole messaging and group chat/party system was so good, on PS3 that stuff was so cumbersome and awkward to use. PS3 definitely had the better UI though. I loved all the 360 dashboards from the blades to the windows, but something about the PS3 UI was just so smooth and clean looking (Being able to have custom themes/wallpapers was a plus too). I'd say maybe PS3 had slightly better exclusives, especially since a lot of the Japanese games I was really into at the time were exclusive to it, BUT the fact pretty much every game that was shared between the 2 consoles ran so much smoother and better on 360 kinda seals it for me. Yeah, PS3 games looked better, but as someone who was super heavy into fighting games in the early 2010's, you HAD to have a 360, it was a way better experience. I also have a real soft spot for the very rare Japanese games made exclusively for the 360 like Ninety-nine Nights and Lost Odyssey.

 

[Kremiso]

the 360 was my last real console, after that i jumped on PC and mainly retroemulation;
i liked a lot that period, i have played all the jrpg released on it, and a lot of other milestones

Darkness, the first Condemned, Mass Effect, Oblivion, GTA4, Lost Planet are just the first that come in mind atm

without the RROD, the 360 could have lead the scene imo

 

[valosagutas]

as someone who was super heavy into fighting games in the early 2010's, you HAD to have a 360

Aww man, XBOX 360 was also great for any game about driving a car. Its gamepad has buttons on top that simulate car gas and brake pedal so great, I was so relieved after the torture of PS2's sensitive main buttons that sometimes sucked so hard, without intending so the damn car was going so slow because I didn't press it all the way. XBOX 360 fixed that problem so great. It was a great experience to play Forza games, even GTA 5 lol.

Either way XBOX 360 played its whole carts right and used its whole potential. Gotta bow down to that console.

 

[Frickinfrik]

I only had a Wii, PS2, and DSi during that era. I was blissfully unaware. (I was just a kid during that time)

 

[NotReallyHere]

My memory of this generation will always be the misadventures in quality control that I encountered from each system on the market.

I had a launch-model 20 GB PS3. No wi-fi, but it played PS1 and PS2 games natively, which was a huge selling point for me! It got the YLOD after a year or so of steady use. Contacted Sony, and they refused to fix it. To this day, it was my last Sony console - and I don't see myself ever going back.

Got a Wii some time later. Within a few months of owning it, I stared to get some strange vertical line patterns on the screen. Menus, games, it didn't matter - they were always there. Contacted Nintendo, and they repaired it for free. My replacement console worked fine for the rest of the time I had it.

When I met my wife-to-be, she had a 360. It was one of the later black (Arcade Edition...?) redesigned models with a puny (4GB?) internal hard drive. A few weeks later, it began to have overheating issues. Contacted Microsoft, who initially refused a repair. Called them back a different day, and they agreed to repair it for free. Even replaced it with a slightly newer model with a larger internal drive!

In each case, my Customer Support experience steadily improved. Sony lost my business, Nintendo made things right, and Microsoft went above and beyond. But the hardware mishaps certainly made me think twice when it came to the next generation of consoles - and every generation since, for that matter

 

[nobitakun]

Hmm. I understand your point but I didn't think it that way. I thought the last console war ended with PS2 and XBOX-era. I really skipped PS3 so easily due to many reasons, never even thought it would be a worthwhile investment so I just bought an XBOX 360. I didn't even care to play MGS 4 because I just didn't think PS3 was worth it so even to this day MGS 4 is the last MGS game I didn't play. Basically PS3 has like 5 games I would be interested to play on and the rest of the library didn't interest me at all. XBOX 360 was cheaper and better for me.

I have never considered PS2, Gamecube and Xbox were competing. It was just PS2 making fun at them. PS2 selling 3 to 4 times more than the other two combined is not something we will ever see in videogame's history, ever.

But back to the topic, I bought Xbox 360 when Elite came out, and I started to buy games like crazy. I got the few exclusive RPG's and most of its shmups, together with tons of games that were multiplatform but usually ran better in 360. I only got PS3 in 2010, when it started to show some signs of life with exclusive RPG's, as that was my main interest on it. I continued buying multiplatform games on 360, but some of them I bought for both, because I just liked the game a lot and I wanted to have both versions.

Even now, I still think 360 is a better machine overall, and RGH is very cheap to do (at least where I live). I would only play PS3 games for exclusives, and in rare cases where they perform better in PS3.

 

[Haruki]

at the time I was a sony fanboy (I got a 60gb launch model, now with YLOD) and a nintendo hater.
The ps3 was/is/will ever be, so bad that now I have all the xbox consoles and I love my wii and wiiu, just thinking about the terrible ps3 controller and most games running like ass on ps3 makes me mad.

 

[Mordovah]

I chose PS3 for the backwards compatibility with my PS2 library and because I prefer the symmetrical joystick layout.
I also associated Xbox with multiplayer shooters, racers, and sports games and I had no friends.
Imagine my surprise when the Xbox 360 began receiving exclusive English translated JRPGs while the PS3 versions were stuck in Japan.

Sony lost me when they began removing backwards compatibility and JRPGs began appearing on Steam.

 

[valosagutas]

I have never considered PS2, Gamecube and Xbox were competing. It was just PS2 making fun at them. PS2 selling 3 to 4 times more than the other two combined is not something we will ever see in videogame's history, ever.

Despite minor nuisances, for nothing is perfect (and pobody in nerfect lol), PS2 will always have a special place in my heart (right side is belong to PS2, left side belong to SEGA Genesis lol).

My love for PS2 is not just because its game library or it looks cool, it also has a state of the art inside. Technically it's amazing. I was so amazed the way its eDRAM was used, it has 4 MB space but it didn't matter. PS2's bus width is 2560 bit and due to how rest of the hardware was its eDRAM's speed is 48 GB/s therefore it tottally covered the 4 MB weakness. Thus PS2 could machine gun chuncks of data by 4 MB parts at a time so fast it didn't matter it had 4 MB memory. Not to mention PS2 can change data while it's in the process of processing therefore it could process graphics and stream loading without necessarily have to waiting for game to load everythime. It was an amazing idea. PS2 is so amazing it can be used as processor for faster than light spaceship travel to calculate safe point in universe to avoid crashing into something!!! lolol

But back to the topic, I bought Xbox 360 when Elite came out, and I started to buy games like crazy. I got the few exclusive RPG's and most of its shmups, together with tons of games that were multiplatform but usually ran better in 360. I only got PS3 in 2010, when it started to show some signs of life with exclusive RPG's, as that was my main interest on it. I continued buying multiplatform games on 360, but some of them I bought for both, because I just liked the game a lot and I wanted to have both versions.

I see. For me PS3 had a trivial start. Technically dissapointing. I was so upset MGS 3 run bad. PS3 couldn't offer cool visual effects that PS2 could produce. Developers were keep saying "what's this alien BS" and "damn we rather develop games for XBOX 360". "PS2 is weak, XBOX" is better all again. Reviews were bad, fans were crying. My granpa died Square still didn't wanna release Racing Lagoon 2 on PS3 too. Future was bleak so as my underwear lololol.

Then PS3 started to release some decent games but they were too less. While they are very valuable, they were not console seller for me.

I always had a PC, and honestly it would be ok if I'd didn't buy XBOX 360 anyway, but it was attractive for playing with many people. What an extrovert dream that also satisfy introvert pleasures!!!

Even now, I still think 360 is a better machine overall, and RGH is very cheap to do (at least where I live). I would only play PS3 games for exclusives, and in rare cases where they perform better in PS3.

I dare say XBOX 360 is even way better than PS4 and PS5 combined lololol.

$ony really screwed up. Before end of this month I'll fly to Japan and convince them they should just close PlayStation and focus on a music player that can produce songs on the fly thanks to AI technology so even if you are stranded on space it won't run out of music. What's more, it can be recharged via solar power!!! The motto: Despite you are outside of laniakea supercluster now you will never be without new musics. lololol

 

[Graw]

I never had any consoles from that generation but most of the people I knew had ps3s so that's what I've played the most. I also prefer the playstation controller design over the Xbox one.

 

[hi4all]

I first had X360, and when i switched to PS3 i was very disappointed, PS Network was just retarded compared to Xbox Live. PS3 had overall better games, but online sucked so much back then.