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Should I buy a PS3.

Shouldn't think so - altho it's success, or otherwise, would very much depend on how much DRM was included with the downloads - after all, I like to keep my movies, and my PS3's only got an 80GB HDD...that's about 10 -15 BRDs before you include any other crap you've got on it...of course, it's easy to install a bigger HDD and/or plug one in the back I suppose...
 
spose, not considered the memory issue really. not sure if i've actually seen a BRD anyway yet?! :confused: i can say that dvds look absolutely outstanding in playback on the ps3, far better than the dedicated philips dvd player that we had previously.
 
Ha ha, get yourself a BRD mate - to start you off I'd recommend Blue Planet and Dark Knight...do you have an HD tellybox? And yeah, the DVD upscaling software is peachy too...
 
internetstalker said:
Don't want to get into a fanboi argument coz as I have said both machines are great with pro's and cons for each

and I'm not an idiot that has to be loyal to one machine over the other.

some people on these boards are just too blind and short sited to see that both machines are great bits of kit.

I am not one of these suckers
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We're just having a bit of fun, I aint a fanboi just love winding up those that are. :D
 
I've got a PS3, which I'm very happy with, mainly because I was looking for a replacement DVD player, I like quirky Japanese games and most of my friends have PS3s not XBoxes, but the XBox is looking very tempting price wise atm.
 
I am absolutely none the wiser.


:D

Thanks for the answers though.

One thing - I'm not sure it was answered (apols if it was) - is there something like XBOX arcade for the PS3?
 
having both and the telly to match them (and the elite xbox rather than the standard one) I have to say the reports of better picture from ps3 to xbox isn't really ture if you know which games have been ported from one console to the other. Games programmed for the xbox suprisingly work better on the xbox games programed for the ps3 better on the ps3 no great suprises there...

I have to say though that personally I find the controllers akin to hand rape on the xbox and after as little time as 20 mins playing my knuckles are hurting in a way which they don't on the ps3 or even the wii, cube, 64... they are better than the original xbox controllers but not by much.

noise wise the ps3 is significantly quiter than the xbox.

Both have the capablities to work as a media server pretty much seemlessly though tbh ps3 media server removes the need for supported formats on either machine as it uses your pc to do the conversion.

online the xbox is a better online experince but the ps3 isn't bad these days and with home being launched some time at the end of this year online gaming will be much more like secondlife or warcraft in terms of it's experince more like mmorpg is...

so if oyu've got a decnet internet connection and small hands get a ps3 if you've got larger hands get the 360 either one will serve your purpose...

my ps3 get's used nightly my xbox monthly... this may not be true for others chris filter here sold his ps3 i think as he never used it and was the reverse of my playing habits so it's swings and round abouts...

final word though is that there is more side by side on the sofa multi player games on the xbox than there is on the ps3 communical gaming isn't really where the ps3 is at on as many titles (and in some bad ports even the same title)
 
Vintage Paw said:
I am absolutely none the wiser.


:D

Thanks for the answers though.

One thing - I'm not sure it was answered (apols if it was) - is there something like XBOX arcade for the PS3?
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not really no.

But look on ebay for a second hand ps3 60 gig (more usb ports plays ps2 games the latest batch don't play ps2 games at all and have 2 usb slots) which is comparible to an arcade price...
 
GarfieldLeChat said:
not really no.

But look on ebay for a second hand ps3 60 gig (more usb ports plays ps2 games the latest batch don't play ps2 games at all and have 2 usb slots) which is comparible to an arcade price...
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Sorry, I think I'm getting everything all confused. I mean XBOX Live Arcade - where you get the old school games and stuff.

How does that work? You pay for XBOX Live, and then you get access to multiplayer but also the XBOX Live Arcade? And then you pay for those old school games, but can also dl normal new games (or buy on disc)?

Sorry to be so monumentally dim.
 
Vintage Paw said:
Sorry, I think I'm getting everything all confused. I mean XBOX Live Arcade - where you get the old school games and stuff.

How does that work? You pay for XBOX Live, and then you get access to multiplayer but also the XBOX Live Arcade? And then you pay for those old school games, but can also dl normal new games (or buy on disc)?

Sorry to be so monumentally dim.
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does it have a shopping function yes.

film shopping no. not til home is fully launched it's there it works in principal but there is no content at all for films as yet other than sony paid for shorts which are kinda arty and more worthy of current tv. no films.

music video for free (anything from sonys back catalogue and with play full pvr digital tv connection and a few other nice odd's and sods kinda the yin to the xbox's sky pvr yang).

you can dl games and patches and updates and ting some games the updates are xbox only (well for the next year, 1 year exclusivity deals on some aspects fall out 3 for example xbox only expansion for 1 year) other games are updated at the same time often with more reliable fixes too.

ps3 gets updates approxminately 1 every 8 to 10 weeks xbox expansions happen every spring and fall.

each have an extensive online back catalogue sonys is less however than xboxlive by virtue of being a newer system xboxlive has a larger catalogue of games and retro games but a large percentage of them are old ps2 games or old xbox games in fact pretty much all the old 2nd gen games are there but on the ps3 PSN (the shopping) you paya cash price in xbox live you pay a credit price with real cash.

Personally I feel agreeved to spend what can be upto £6.50 in terms of credit value on a game which costs £3.49 from the PSN joust being a good example. I feel there's less obfiscation in pricing...

pretty much inside of the xboxlive is the standard windows ethic of if you want more you've got to pay for that feature. which works to a point.

sony just deals with money which is more honest.

the shopping exerience and online experince is more refined in terms of technology in particlar intergration on the xbox.

largley in part to sony's over zealious trumpeting of home which hasn't borne real fruit yet. so they simply didn't develope the 2nd gen system which is what xboxlive is (comparibl to a web 2.0 website for your console in reality) but sony keep not releasing home to people and are still betaing it so it's vapour wear for all but a small group of people. I've got it it's not very intresting other than as a technical demo a slightly odder version of chat and quite a lot like they read Idoru before making it and had spent a lot of time on second life...

that beign said some of the personaliseation features and functions are truely stunning and it works with heavy traffic too you can game from insite it and it is pretty much seamless in most places...

but it's other failing is no ones got it so it's entirely unusable with other ps3 owners...

In the future we hope this will come on line further down the track i've gone through my first blu ray unit but i've repaced it really easily. Long term care the xbox when it dies you buy a new one, ps3 you can repair them and get them working fine you can also stick bigger hard drives in them which are any laptop hard drives as opposed to the xboxs locked to the machine hard drives... full instructions on how to remove them are provided and you can upgrade with out voiding your warrenty they even advise to remove your hard drive if you need to send it back for repairs.

xbox has a longer warrenty that the ps3 ps3 doens't really need one unless you had an early one with a flaky blu ray drive (which some of us did) then they don't go wrong often and when they do freeze they just need to be rebooted...

ps3 controllers as well have inbuilt batteries and last significantly longer than the double aa battery packs or recargeables you can get for the xbox. recharge times in practise at least the ps3 is much quicker at charging to full pad. ps3 pads tunr off after a period which you set rather than the very long self cancelling of the xbox pads.

All of these things to me make the ps3 a little better as a system than the xbox. the detailing is more refined on the ps3 than in some parts postivley agricultureal feature set of xbox. Btut he xbox beats hands down it's online experince but you have to pay for that so you'd expect that it'd be better otherwise why'd you thorw money at it? Ps 3 online is free all of it no paid for account needed just a psn id which is free to sign up for and indeed part of the intialiseation process and set up of the ps3 anyways. you pay for things not for features really is the difference between the two.
 
Kid_Eternity said:
Do you have one gamer profile for online games or different ones for each game on the PS3?
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yes and yes... you have throphies and the like and you have a profile for a particular game too so i can see you online from mine and see you profile trophies etc or i can see you n game and see you particlar throiphies for that game.

again it's not as developed in the PSN but it's pure genius in home., you should come over and look at it have a ply as a technical demo it's got so much potnetial even though it's not out, I know youll like it, but also that you;ll bitch that it's not out yet.. :D
 
Vintage Paw said:
Sorry, I think I'm getting everything all confused. I mean XBOX Live Arcade - where you get the old school games and stuff.

How does that work? You pay for XBOX Live, and then you get access to multiplayer but also the XBOX Live Arcade? And then you pay for those old school games, but can also dl normal new games (or buy on disc)?

Sorry to be so monumentally dim.
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You can download games from the Playstation Store which is roughly equivalent to XBOX Live Arcade. So 'yes' is the answer to your original question.
 
GarfieldLeChat said:
yes and yes... you have throphies and the like and you have a profile for a particular game too so i can see you online from mine and see you profile trophies etc or i can see you n game and see you particlar throiphies for that game.

again it's not as developed in the PSN but it's pure genius in home., you should come over and look at it have a ply as a technical demo it's got so much potnetial even though it's not out, I know youll like it, but also that you;ll bitch that it's not out yet.. :D
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:D
 
GarfieldLeChat said:
but sony keep not releasing home to people and are still betaing it so it's vapour wear for all but a small group of people. I've got it it's not very intresting other than as a technical demo a slightly odder version of chat and quite a lot like they read Idoru before making it and had spent a lot of time on second life...
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Eh? Its been in open beta since last December as far as I know, anybody can get it if they want.

Its not that interesting and there is no way Im going to pay real money for imaginary clothing. Or at least not at the prices they currently sell a (very limited) range of stuff for your avatar at.

Overall I am enjoying the PS3, I like how much quieter it is than the 360, I love the bluray and dvd upscaling. The online experience, downloads etc does not feel as polished as the 360, and the ps3 does not feel more powerful/better graphics than the 360 to me, but its early days for my experience so far. I think the controller suits my hands better and Im enjoying Zen Pinball.
 
Buddy Bradley said:
I have both a PS3 and a Wii still, although they live in a basket at the back of a cupboard, and only get brought out when someone fancies playing Sonic Racing or Wii bowling.
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Which is where I'm hoping mine will be, if I can get one of the new/current generation consoles.
 
My PS3 died a few weeks ago (games
/ console freezes constantly), will prob go for a PS4 next if there's any cheap, don't play enough to justify a 5.
 
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