A couple of weeks ago my dad purchased a PS3 and I have had a good amount of time to play on it ect.. and thought it would be nice to share with you as to why we purchased a PS3 and not an XBOX 360 and it’s pro’s and con’s so far.
Why??
One of the main reasons we bought a PS3 over an XBOX is because we have always had a Playstation, we had a Playstation 1, PS2 and now a PS3 that is one reason. One thing that really annoys me about the XBOX is that you have to pay for the XBOX Live and as far as I understand the Playstation network is free until you purchase games from the store(correct me if I am wrong). There is another thing about the networking that bugs me, the XBOX does not have wireless built in and I don’t have cables going everywhere in my house. Then there is the Blu-Ray and I think we can say that Blu-ray has won. One of my more personal points is that I would rather have a little to do with Microsoft as possible. The final nail in the coffin came this summer the world wide RED RING OF DEATH.
What I like
I bought The Orange Box and Saga Rally and have to say that Saga Rally sucks if you want to actually play it but is great for multi player races. The Orange Box Contains Half Life 2, Portal and Team Fortress. I have never played Half LIfe before and am loving it and well on my way through. Portal is amazing I love it, it rocks!! and Team Fortress well this is sad it is an online player game and I have yet to be abel to sign up for a PS3 network account because the internet connection at my dad is the worst I have ever seen and I have just not been able to sign up and get on to have a game but it looks great. The ability to have users makes it really easy to use a console for a family that way you are not switching in and out memory cards and my stats don’t get mixed with my brothers. The new trigers instead of buttons for the R2 and L2 make a driving game very realistic, and are really comfortable Most of the feature you get in the PS3 are in the XBOX so I am not going to go over them.
What I dislike
One this is that it does not come with an HDMI cable in the box!! We bought one separately and It looks great but because we have a silly over complex TV setup we can’t get the audio over the HDMI, we need to get a Av receiver. One other complaint is that the Playstation network setup takes forever!! It has like 10 steps god why so long!! That would be it there is not much wrong with it that can find.
Conclusion
I am very happy that I got a PS3 over an XBOX and would recommend a PS3 to anyone especially as it is going to have better looking and more advanced game for it in a few more months as developers have had some time to play with the console. Over all the PS3 is a great console and I am glad I got it over the XBOX 360.
