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

[NeonKnights]

i have never owned an xbox console, and know very few who have
given my love for the playstation and playstation 2, and the existence of games like demons souls and metal gear solid 4, i knew that i simply had to get a playstation 3
it was wonderful, and then the lights became yellow and the console would never turn on
so i sent it in for repair and all was well
then a year and a half later the lights grew yellow again and at that point i never replaced it
i have heard the words of many fine burgers of cheesie origin that my fat model playstation 3 was prone to that sort of thing, regardless, at that time i transitioned to computer game playing as my main method of entertainment for game play
around a decade after 2014 i bought a playstation 3 slim model that was so cheap that it might as well been free, and it has worked wonderfully, i have it next to my playstation 2 and between those two i have the libraries of the first three sony consoles at my leisure

The YLOD repair usually requires reballing/reflowing the solder. (Also sometimes cooling mods.) Which entails removing the factory lead free solder and replacing it with some 60/40 by drag soldering. Alternatively you could try the oven thing and hopefully melt the factory solder and fix the failure. The downside to this is the leadfree solder from the factory will probably crack again over many heating and cooling cycles breaking the solder joint and severing the connection. So technically you could probably repair those PS3'.

 

[NasserBlahman3000]

When the xbox played first game GTA IV back in 2008 great times! MY friend had the ps3 and it was sleek though... top design JAPAN they have smarts for that ;)

 

[legsrjust4show]

I guess the PS3 did win in the end. I think we can all agree since Microsoft got lost in the sauce with making the Kinect a thing (and it actually sold extremely well, but they couldn't get a single game outside of Just Dance to get anyone interested in it) and Sony got it's second wind and turned their No Games machine into the cinematic blockbuster game machine.

BUT THE ONE THING THE XBOX 360 HELD OVER THE PS3 was that the online functionality was top class. Stellar stuff. Xbox Live party chats and following up with friends was infinitely better than anything anyone else was providing, but the real hidden star in four seasons was that Microsoft basically invented streaming movies??? with this hunk of junk that fried itself??? and it's very odd to remember??? They essentially pioneered rental streaming which lead to Netflix streaming which then was essentially exclusive to the Xbox 360 for some time.

Ironically, this major victory ended up biting Microsoft in the ass and doomed the Xbox One. They went all in on making the Xbox One the home multimedia platform, only for smart TVs and other streaming devices to take the scene and make all of that completely pointless. Nobody cares that your game console can stream Netflix movies because every other device in the world can natively do that now.

Personally, I think this generation kind of overall was a big messy mixed bag and I think I still prefer the Xbox 360's exclusives over the PS3's. The global recession hitting right when this generation was getting some steam and then the skyrocketing cost to make anything people wanted kind of stunted these console libraries. It was basically a killing spree for so many classic game companies and studios for awhile there. BUT THE 360 HAD HALO 3 AND NINJA GAIDEN 2 SO IT'S SUPERIOR

 

[Spyrone]

The longest console war ever. It started my ascent from a lowly Xbox fanboy to a PC gamer elitist. I got a 360 at launch and it RRoD'd the next summer. Then I spent two years playing the OG Xbox, PC, N64, PSP, PS2, and the Wii because the fucking thing kept overheating and dying and had to be continuously sent back to MS so they could attempt to fix the poorly designed curvy POS.

I eventually got a slim PS3 that lasted longer than my first PS4 (which ate my copy of DOOM 2016, then took a shit and died). Definitely prefer the PS3 over the Xbox 360 because of that. It didn't matter if most of my-then favorite franchises like Gears of War and Halo were Xbox exclusives if my Xbox continually killed itself in a struggle with bulimia. By the time the S models started coming out they were well into the Kinect shovelware and Halo 4 end-phase, which sucked.

 

[DrunkGecko]

id say at the time xbox 360 was better
but looking back now, ps3 had more exclusives im pretty sure

 

[bigstinkie]

The longest console war ever. It started my ascent from a lowly Xbox fanboy to a PC gamer elitist. I got a 360 at launch and it RRoD'd the next summer. Then I spent two years playing the OG Xbox, PC, N64, PSP, PS2, and the Wii because the fucking thing kept overheating and dying and had to be continuously sent back to MS so they could attempt to fix the poorly designed curvy POS.

I eventually got a slim PS3 that lasted longer than my first PS4 (which ate my copy of DOOM 2016, then took a shit and died). Definitely prefer the PS3 over the Xbox 360 because of that. It didn't matter if most of my-then favorite franchises like Gears of War and Halo were Xbox exclusives if my Xbox continually killed itself in a struggle with bulimia. By the time the S models started coming out they were well into the Kinect shovelware and Halo 4 end-phase, which sucked.

it is amusing how similar our stories are
when the playstation 3 generation ended, working my restaurant job, i made the decision between getting a playstation 4, or a bunch of computer parts to build a strong pc
i went with the pc option and have not bought a game console since 2012 and i think i am very well off due to it

 

[RockHoward11]

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.

For me it was pretty much 100% Xbox 360 since my mom already worked for Microsoft at around the turn of the century. We had the original so I grew up playing Halo, Forza, Burnout and whatever weird obscure stylized exclusives Microsoft was putting out at the time. Still, I also had a DSI and a Wii to balance things out. A lot of SSBB and Halo 3. I remember the only reason I wanted a PS3 at the time was for Metal Gear Solids 1 and 4 since the 360 only had the HD collection and Rising.

 

[el_principe]

𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟑𝟔𝟎, 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐎, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐝, 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝, 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐬𝟑, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 , 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟑𝟔𝟎, 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐒 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐒𝟒 , 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞.

 

[junkman]

i have a handful of 360 consoles still, and an S-model is still in use, playing the 360 games i wasn't able to play or even afford back then. Have never developed any interest in the PS3 besides the Little Big Planet-game.

Currently on finishing the FF13 games on it