At 299 euro, more disk space, less power consumption and less voluminous housing, the PS3 Consoles has finally become much more attractive.
For recent times, the PS3 Consoles here Vor-/Nachteile quickly summarized:
Advantages:
- Less power consumption
- Bigger hard drive (120 GB)
- Takes up less space
Disadvantages:
- The possibility of Linux, among other things Install operating systems has been removed
- No backwards compatibility with PS1 and PS2 games will not come again, according to Sony
- You can not (without accessories) stand vertically
And in comparison to the Xbox 360, I see the following advantages / disadvantages:
Advantages:
- Can play Blu-Ray Movies
- Six axis controller detects inclination (unfortunately, not often used meaningfully)
- Has always been quieter and less power consumption
- Online play is free (PSN), with the Xbox costs 60 euro a year
Disadvantages:
- On Xbox Live is simply more going on and there are more addons, demos, Live Arcade offers games, HD movies, etc. - should you expect when one pays for. Overall, I like Xbox Live and everything has something to do with it much better and is better integrated into the console.
- No downloads available in the background, or even playing
- Controller can not be so pleasant in particular (L / R trigger buttons), such as the Xbox360 controller but (as you argue)
- Game selection is not quite so large, the most important thing is available.
About the shape of the casing and the material used may be debated excellently. But not matter, because what counts are the games and accessories. And should be in place once the Exclusive List of Xbox 360 and PS3 Consoles compare (eg on Wikipedia). Firstly because there are so many exclusive titles not receiving the title "I must have" (for me only so warens look 3-4 per console), secondly you have the PS3 has just as many exclusive titles in Germany / Europe did not to have as many exclusive titles for the Xbox 360 just so "exclusive" is because the developers have not made any port, and usually those are no good titles.
Generally one can say that the Sony console gaming experience from the Japanese tend to be breathed on, especially among the premium titles, but come on the one hand, many PS3 Consoles developers from Japan and the console is in the Japanese market, according to a strong presence. But this also means that many games are not even available in Europe, so far as the game offered on the PlayStation is still significantly lower than on the Xbox 360 While there are also tracks for the 360 that exist only in Japan / USA, but relatively few. But how you view it depends on what you play / prefer and how many games you buy on average - very few will notice the negative. One should bear this in mind, however, when one hires pure numerical comparisons, such as eg Total number of games or the number of exclusive titles.
A further point should be considered even if one of the games is also available on the Xbox 360 looks on. Since the 360 is technically comparable, but the world has sold large quantities and is used especially often and longer to put the Xbox 360 game developers as a development scale. To which the PS3 Consoles is harder to program and the graphics processor is actually slower than the 360 (it is a myth that the PS3 Consoles is graphically better, you can not say so flat). As a result, the multi-platform titles on both consoles are only now really are equivalent, and they will look on the PS3 Consoles never been better in all material respects.
So who'll buy a PS3 Consoles because they have heard that it was the technically superior device, and eventually the game graphically looks forward to the PS3 Consoles pulling ahead of the Xbox 360, will wait in vain. Only the exclusive titles can be graphically points if they fully exploit the Blu-Ray media - but then that usually means: rendered cut-scenes and basically has to do with the power of the console, nothing. So if one wants to see multi-platform titles graphical differences, one has to pea or pixel counters. I'm curious what time flame wars are over a few pixels or a few lines more or less as soon result in the dissolution of Rage is out. Basically, that's damn. Both consoles are identical in performance and on details.
Because Xbox Live, I do not say that the PS3 Consoles "is still more expensive" than the Xbox 360 would be If we on it two years Xbox Live, the PS3 Consoles is clearly less expensive no matter how it twists and turns. However, I think the PSN service is not particularly attractive, the same goes for home. Those who only occasionally plays online, and rarely what is Down loads with PSN but well-served and can be satisfied. I've just always felt that the people who find better PSN simply do because it is in vain and have not even made the comparison in everyday use. If I was primarily about the feeling you get online then go to Xbox Live and will not over 60 euro a year regarded as acceptable. For the "Friends" which is then, the Avatar, the more often in games, and now experiencing the 1 vs. 100 game show, the live party where you can gossip with multiple users - no matter what the individual does - or together in a enter new game, and generally the supply of content to download is overwhelming. However, I also try a download junkie and need everything, not everyone has this gene.
Overall we can say that PS3 Consoles is the console for the Blu-ray movie fan, the Xbox 360 is the console for the lot-line players and try out. Each delivers a great gaming experience with just tionally low differences here and there - the least likely to really stand out. It depends ultimately on how much value on it is placed on (certain) Exclusive Hotel whether a Blu-Ray or Xbox Live is more important, and not least, the games offer.
Playstation 3 - Finally Attractive!