360/PS3 Comparisons

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Also another thing to take into consideration that not many people do.

Current and future franchise only titles.

Like Halo will be xbox only as well as left 4 dead stuff and ps3 will have final fantasy only stuff.

Shiz like that. Dunno if there's a site that'll list all the good titles of xbox both present and soon coming vs the ps3 opponents.

From the lists I've already looked at, I didn't see all that much in the PS3 category that were exclusives that I was super worried about.

I used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pla...on_3_games and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_360_games with sorting for "Exclusive". If anyone has a more complete list, I'd love to see it, however. And Final Fantasy is no longer entirely exclusive. Versus will be PS3 only (I'm not sure where Agito will go) but a single game spinoff isn't much weight to consider.

360 will not play Blu-Ray. I think it needs the add-on to play DVD movies.

The only reason to get an old PS3 over the Slim is for the emotion engine. If you don't care about playing PS2 games, though, then it's largely irrelevant.

No one's really brought it up, but failure rate of hardware does need to be mentioned. If you know you won't really be bothered by shipping times, then I guess it doesn't matter so much, but if you expect the stuff you buy to actually work... well...

Failure of hardware is something I greatly am curious about as well. 360s seem to pretty much have a 99% failure rate over any decent amount of time, for whatever reason (They keep saying its fixed, yet people still keep running into RRoD.) I haven't heard all that much about PS3 failures.

I'm not familiar with the emotion engine, but while I like backwards compatibility, I do have a PS2 that works great.