Sony kicked 'yo ass foo!

[Sage]

PSN is totally not the same as XBL.

It's slower (lag is commonplace on PSN - I'm genuinely surprised if I ever lag on XBL) and more unstable.

That said, you get what you pay for and for the price of $0.00, PSN is pretty schweet.

The X360 failure rate is entirely unacceptable. Absurdly, even. I disagree about the customer service, though. I had to replace my machine and had nothing but good things to say about the customer service. Not once was I 'stranded,' so to speak. They hit a roadblock and worked out an alternative solution for me. That was nice.

The PS3 hardware is far better, ridiculously poor architecture notwithstanding. Still, there's only one game on the PS3 I'd want that I can't get on the 360. And multiplatform games tend to run better on the 360, according to most material on the subject - and personal experience.

I'm surprised at the... uh... civility of this discussion so far.

Anyway, ultimately it boils down to personal preference. A terribly unreliable console with a huge library which third party companies are actually willing to support (I'm looking at you, Valve), or a remarkably powerful machine that's also fairly - or, comparitively, incredibly - stable.

I chose the 360, but so what if someone chooses the PS3. *Shrug*