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

[moonbits]

360 was glorious from 2005 to 2009
I bought a PS3 on 2008 for MGS4

The PS3 fucking sucked balls but the games were great.

 

[Male Nerdity]

I was waiting on the PS3 since I was a PS1 and PS2 fanboy.

I got tired of waiting when I saw "Dead Rising" advertised as a 360 exclusive. At that time, I'd never played anything like it and I've always been a big zombie movie fan. So I broke down and got a 360.

I loved my 360 once I got Call of Duty 3. That had me hooked on the online gaming scene. I eventually got a PS3 but sold it after about a month because I was so invested in the 360 and Clan Gaming at the time.

So for me, Xbox 360 was a clear winner in that era.

 

[DanCalibur]

Oh yeah, the great war for the second place. I choose the Xbox 360 not because it was better or anything but because you could mod it to run backups. I remember modding a cheap LiteOn DVD recorder to download and burn my own games.

 

[MajesticSiN]

I was Team PS3

 

[PhaseJump]

Xbox 360 perfected online gaming and the games performed better.

PS3 was a dog's breakfast. Overpriced, buggy games that looked like shit by comparison, dual shock being dismissed as something you shouldn't want or need, the PSN store would lag and crash the console occasionally needing to be reinstalled, you needed to use the PSN store on a PC to actually see some of the games that were missing from the console side, every time you would go to play something it would likely need to download and then have the extra space to unpack updates.

Red Ring of death was more acceptable than the experience of using a PS3. Sony lost their minds with the PS3, then the Vita, screwing everybody. I don't even understand how PS4 or PS5 found success. The only selling point they had going for them was free online, but they paywalled it. They never secured it, leading to the big outage and data breach. The only games worth playing on modern Playstations are typically indie games that were already on Steam. Their first party stuff is big cinematic recycled or remastered ports. Online multiplayer was never Sony's strong suit. They shut it down anyway in their own games.

Playstation doesn't deserve it's customer base. I'll never buy their brand again.

 

[Don Patch]

Low key, I skipped that whole Gen. Was just doing other things.
Looking back and having played things from then I'd have to say PS3.
Honestly, the Wii.
...Honestly, the DS....

But to stay focused, the PS3 has/had some really great titles.
The 360 more-or-less felt like a sports-game/War-games machine nearly exclusively (LIVE Arcade, not withstanding). Does nothing for me.

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... I prefer the symmetrical joystick layout.

Parallel joystick brethren!

 

[Frickinfrik]

Xbox 360 perfected online gaming and the games performed better.

PS3 was a dog's breakfast. Overpriced, buggy games that looked like shit by comparison, dual shock being dismissed as something you shouldn't want or need, the PSN store would lag and crash the console occasionally needing to be reinstalled, you needed to use the PSN store on a PC to actually see some of the games that were missing from the console side, every time you would go to play something it would likely need to download and then have the extra space to unpack updates.

Red Ring of death was more acceptable than the experience of using a PS3. Sony lost their minds with the PS3, then the Vita, screwing everybody. I don't even understand how PS4 or PS5 found success. The only selling point they had going for them was free online, but they paywalled it. They never secured it, leading to the big outage and data breach. The only games worth playing on modern Playstations are typically indie games that were already on Steam. Their first party stuff is big cinematic recycled or remastered ports. Online multiplayer was never Sony's strong suit. They shut it down anyway in their own games.

Playstation doesn't deserve it's customer base. I'll never buy their brand again.

Hey now, the PS3 was great. Also I think the 360 “killed” online gaming because it was the first game console to force you to pay for online multiplayer, nobody likes paying for that. Also the 360 was prone to hardware failures and it became a joke in the last few years of it’s life. Also the PS3 had amazing exclusives, don’t know what you’re talking about.

 

[PhaseJump]

Hey now, the PS3 was great. Also I think the 360 “killed” online gaming because it was the first game console to force you to pay for online multiplayer, nobody likes paying for that. Also the 360 was prone to hardware failures and it became a joke in the last few years of it’s life. Also the PS3 had amazing exclusives, don’t know what you’re talking about.

I already explained what I am talking about, and I said the red ring of death is a preferable experience by comparison. The PS3 was half baked from the start.

The original Xbox required a subscription for Live and multiplayer. The 360 made it better, gave us gamertags and achievements, games on demand. Arcade brought back classic games and they allowed for indie devs to publish XNA stuff.

"Killed" online gaming? When? Show us all when online gaming died? Xbox unified and brought it as a centralized thing to the masses. Not even Sega Net, Heat.net, or Steam on PC came anywhere close to what Xbox rolled out to everybody OG Live and when they rebooted it with the 360.

There were amazing exclusives on both. Playstation completely shit the bed as the market leader with the PS2, and they sold a busted and inferior experience with the PS3.

 

[RomaniMajorasMask]

I was lucky to have access to both. I had my own personal 360, but my brother has a PS3 he hardly used.
It was a good time. I get how some people would dislike people fighting over the consoles and which is better, but that competitive nature is what I feel drove companies to do better! Like, fucking SELL an Xbox to me, a PlayStation to me.

Xbox One and PS4 never had that competition anymore. Microsoft gave up on exclusives, which made Sony practically the definitive console for a good while. Especially if you liked anime games. Hell, I feel around that time, you would have been better off getting a Nintendo console rather than an Xbox.
It's a shame too. I loved Xbox. But it feels in recent years it really let itself go.

 

[moonbits]

PS3 was a dog's breakfast. Overpriced, buggy games that looked like shit by comparison, dual shock being dismissed as something you shouldn't want or need, the PSN store would lag and crash the console occasionally needing to be reinstalled, you needed to use the PSN store on a PC to actually see some of the games that were missing from the console side, every time you would go to play something it would likely need to download and then have the extra space to unpack updates.

Installing games was a pain in the ass, not even PC was that slow. OMG Snake smoking for 2 hours installing a videogame thanks Sony.

 

[iamthemilkman]

Bought all 3 at launch. I waited in line at Wal-Mart for the Xbox 360 (In-store in the electronics department and not outside, thankfully), pre-ordered the Wii at my hometown mall's Gamestop, and had my PS3 pre-ordered online. I was working at Hot Topic at the time, as well as working at my uncle's construction company, so it was the first time in my life that I was making some money and was able to afford all 3 with my own money.

Xbox 360 was my main console. Wii and PS3 were pretty dire for a while there. I could only play so much Twilight Princess, Red Steel, Resistance: FoM, and Motorstorm. Xbox 360 was firing on all cylinders in 2006 and 2007. Wii and PS3 did finally get some new games worth playing with Super Mario Galaxy and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune in 2007, though. That said, the PS3's lack of an achievement system for a while and lack of Dualshock feedback really did suck. Their online was woefully inadequate, and third party games -- especially Unreal Engine 3 games -- almost always ran at a lower resolution and worse framerate.

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

The 360 was the PS2 of that generation. It's the console that had Halo during its peak with Halo 3, had Bioshock first, had Mass Effect first, had timed exclusive Call of Duty map packs when the best Call of Duty games were launching, etc. PS3 took many years to recover and it eventually outsold the 360, however 360 was the mainstream console choice for most, if not all, of that generation. It had way better online, too.

 

[nobitakun]

Hey now, the PS3 was great. Also I think the 360 “killed” online gaming because it was the first game console to force you to pay for online multiplayer, nobody likes paying for that. Also the 360 was prone to hardware failures and it became a joke in the last few years of it’s life. Also the PS3 had amazing exclusives, don’t know what you’re talking about.

I can't argue what actual numbers show. People don't mind paying for playing online as long as they receive extras that are worth it. You describe it like you were just paying for playing online, nothing more, and the monthly subscription was aeons better than the PSN. To sum things up, with 360 you got better online stability and the games that were free as a Gold member are yours forever, even if you cancel your subscription. On the contrary, PSN Plus free games can only be played as long as you have a valid subscription, so you are "renting them".

I don't like paying for playing, but clearly Microsoft knew how to make things with 360, until One came out and screwed everything up.

Also, it's true that 360 had many consoles with the red ring of death, as well as phat PS3's had their heat issues. But I've yet to see a 360 with HDMI port to fail, and I've seen many of them. My first 360 is Elite, from 2007 and never ever had any issue with it, then I bought an Arcade from 2008, which was a Falcon model, and I also had 0 issues. All my friends, known people and places where I went that had a 360 with an HDMI port never had any issue, so I don't think it was better or worse than PS3.