It’s true that if you want to have the Hi Def DVD player capability that it costs more to have the 360. In fairness, you don’t necessarily have to have the wireless connection. I put a switch in my living room, and I have my Tivo, Wii, and 360 connected to it, wired. The other thing to consider is that the 360 HDD is upgradeable, albeit expensively. I’m not aware of a way to upgrade the HDD in the PS3 without voiding the warranty.

You do have options, but two things are true; The PS3 is getting more attainable, and the games on the Xbox are still way better, and there is a huge online community for Xbox live. OK, maybe that’s 3 things.

I own both systems and I got to say for gaming it is the 360 all the way.

For little extras Ps3 all the way. The dvd upconverting to 1080P is nice, included blu ray, wireless, ability to use Linux, upgrade hard drive to 350gigs, painless streaming setup, doesn’t sound like a jet engine during playback, were all pluses as far I was concerned with my PS3.

You can upgrade the hd in the PS3 they even show you how to do it in the instruction manual. It only voids the warranty if the hd you swapped in is to blame for it going poof.

Tipa: 360 does not support divx (neither does ps3), must be wmv. There is a program that is suppose to help with divx streaming called tversity but I am not sure how it works. /shrug. After the nightmare I went through trying to get my 360 to talk to my vista pc I can’t imagine the terror you will have with Linux. If you get it working that would be sweet.

I know with this post I sound like a PS3 fanboy but every night guess what console gets a gaming workout? It ain’t big, black and shiny.

Congrats on your purchase and welcome to the two console generation.

I recently got the 60GB version of the PS3 because I heard the newer versions were not going to be backwards compatible. I was a freshman in college when the PS2 came out and honestly I was unable to afford the console market. Now I find myself going back over the last 4 years and purchasing all the good RPGs I missed. I have FFX, Disgaea and Kingdom Hearts on my plate right now. In all honestly I just didn’t hear about that many RPGs for the Xbox except Fable.

Thanks, I’ll probably try Eternal Sonata.

Dude, I own a xbox 360 for over a yr, and just found out my gf got me a ps3 for xmas.. (reason why Im reading this) Im not sure if i should keep the ps3 or return it. I absolutely love my 360.. most of my hs friends from jersey has it, (i live in florida now) and i cant tell u the amount of time we spend playing halo3, and now cod4 on xbox live.. well untill i got the 3 red lights on my 360.. AGAIN!!! Ive had this problem last yr, and besides the horrible costumer service, they did send me a box, and id say between 2-4 weeks i had my xbox back.. it was a huge let down then, and even a bigger one now, since i just bought cod4, and guitar hero III; and i can honestly count how many times i played those games in 1 hand.. so yea, my question is, should i keep the ps3 40gb, since i dont have anything to play untill probably january, or should i return it and just wait till i get my xbox back? is it worth owning both?

I own an Xbox and a Playstation and both are really good game consoles. Let’s see what are Microsoft’s future updgrades on its Xbox game console.~,~