C/NET - Prizefight: Xbox360 vs. Sony PS3

[JToddler]

PART 1: Design and Features
a.) Design: PS3 - 5 points and Xbox 360 - 4 points
b.) Features: PS3 - 5 points and Xbox 360 - 4 points


Is the Xbox 360 better than the PS3?

Get ready for some serious debate from hard-core gamers and fans of the Wii. In the latest CNET TV Prizefight, Veronica Belmont pits the Xbox 360 against the highly coveted PlayStation 3, and it's neck and neck. The exclusion of the Wii in this Prizefight is enough to cause grumbling, but the Wii is less of a hard-core gaming and multimedia beast than these superpricey consoles. (That said, the Wii may be more fun to play than either of them.) Kick back and watch the first part of Veronica's high-end gaming battle.

Watch Part 1 of the story: http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_53-26047.html

PART 2: Online Services, Performance, Available Titles
a.) Online Services: PS3 - 3 points and Xbox 360 - 5 points
b.) Performance: PS3 - 4 points and Xbox 360 - 5 points
c.) Available Titles : PS3 - 3 points and Xbox 360 - 5 points

Last week we teased you with part one of an epic Prizefight battle between Xbox 360 and the Sony PS3. When we last met, these two titanic game consoles were locked in a death struggle for supremacy over the expensive non-Wii marketplace. Which one will come out on top? The Blu-ray-juiced, slightly motion-sensitive PS3? Or the older but wiser, with its ability to deliver classic episodes of MacGyver, Xbox 360? Find out! Watch the conclusion of Prizefight: Xbox 360 vs. PS3.

http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_53-26147.html

C/NET gave the Xbox 360 - 23 points and the PS3 - 20 points!

Do you agree? Post your comments!

[JTK]

Game wise, the 360 has the edge thanks to a year's headstart, like you would expect.

[BTBuck1]

see where the games are this time next year or better yet two years from now. I think you'll see the competitive edge in favor of playstation. They kicked xbox six ways to tuesday with an inferior system in the ps2, I can only imagine what they'll do now.

[nobody]

the xbox 360 has more games because it's been out for a year. But the games are nothing to talk about, cuz all I hear is Gears of war. But, I think the 360 is way more technically superior.

[JTK]

Originally Posted by nobody

But, I think the 360 is way more technically superior.

Not surprisingly, you would be in a very small minority with this opinion.

How is the 360 technically superior to the PS3? Please offer concrete specifics.

[blitz6speed]

Originally Posted by nobody

the xbox 360 has more games because it's been out for a year. But the games are nothing to talk about, cuz all I hear is Gears of war.

Gears of War is their champion and nothing will come close to it for a while. I dont even think Halo 3 is going to really bring in many new buyers for the system, Gears already got everyone who was on the fence in already. After Halo 3, which i have 0 interest in, they have nothing left in their corner. Literally. And the only other decent games the 360 does have, are multi-platform. So to say the 360 has a weak lineup for the most part is an understatement, without gears the system has nothing worth bringing to the table.

But, I think the 360 is way more technically superior.

You can think that now, because we havent seen the A-Game of the PS3 yet. But you and i will, and you will agree that the PS3 will have the best looking exclusive games on either format. Gears does look awesome, but epic was said that it pushed all 3 cores on the 360 to 95%. Tapped out much? You betcha. I think games from now on will strive to do anything to look like Gears and of course, fail. However, PS3 and sony has some amazing 1st and 2nd party teams that really know what they are doing. I'd put God Of War 1/2 against a LOT of xbox 360 games graphically anytime and we're talking PS2.

Trust when i say, the PS3 is going to take it home again. All the doom/gloom campaigning microsoft has been doing by Viral Marketing is dyeing down, and magazines, developers and gamers are now all coming to the PS3 in spades. I predict we will see an absolutely AMAZING holiday season for the PS3 this year, especially with the format war all but decided in the favor of blu-ray, people will now say "shoot, i really want to play *insert exclusive ps3 game here* AND blu-ray is the format of the future, ill take that!". It is literally microsofts worst nightmare about to come true, that blu-ray will help sony win the console wars.

[Guinness7]

Wait untile game developers start to use the full space of a blu-ray disc to make the game even better...currently i am pretty sure that most games are only using the space that a dvd would take for a ps2 game

[Jack Torrance]

C/Net is weird -- they are able to look into their crystal ball and, rightly, predict that blu-ray will crush hd-dud.

But they can't use the same crystal ball to see where the PS3 will, actually pretty soon, outstrip the Xbox 360.

Online for Sony may not be as good as the 360, but it's FREE and deserves at least a "4".

More games? Well, yeah, duh -- 360 is better right now, thanks to a year headstart. And there are a lot of quality games in the pipeline right now for the ps3. Not to mention the PS3 has superior backwards compatibility with the PS2 (with a relatively small % of ps2 games not being able to work)... much better than the Xbox 360 is with the Xbox, in fact one could say it was a disaster, with M$ promising full backwards compatibility... and then basically quietly throwing in the towel towards the end of last year on that whole concept.

And the future of games between the two systems looks bad for the 360 as well. Thanks to the max disc storage of 9gigs, it's games are close to maxing out the full potential of the 360, if it hasn't already. The PS3 has what again? Blu-Ray? Up to 50gigs? It's barely scratched the surface of it's potential and anyone who can't see where the PS3 will dominate in this area too is blind or just plain ignorant. At least it should've been a tie.

Performance? Oh... please. The Ps3 humiliates the 360 in this arena... from having more and faster processors... to the quiet and fast dvd/blu-ray playback (unlike the 360 which sounds like it's taking off)... to being online and blu-ray movie ready right out of the box... to being physically more dependable than the 360 (the 360 having a rather large number of defective and returned units compared to the PS3).

And this smackdown between the consoles will probably be a redundant point anyway as M$ is supposedly already planning an updated 360 console with specs that will supposedly compete with the PS3... so even they know it's inferior. And when that is released, millions of 360 owners will be pissed off that their console is obsolete.

Honestly, what a stupid article.

And I have both the PS3 and the 360. The 360 has gone unused since I got the PS3 back in November. Really there isn't even a contest.

[bluearth]

I agree Jack

Did you also notice she said PS3 doesnt have a must have launch title?! Hello! Resistance Fall of Man! Oh my

Also notice she enjoyed Dark Kingdom and Genji, 2 of the worst PS3 launch titles. Talk about bad taste

Also gamespot's test of graphics comparison of PS3 vs the 360 was flawed to say the least

They crippled the PS3 by not using HDMI to make it 'fair' because the 360 doesnt have it

How do you expect to get a true graphics comparison when you cripple one competitor?!

And all they found in the end was 'This tree on the 360 has a bit better textures then the PS3 version. Also we can see one more stop sign in the rear view mirror with NFS'. Oh my

The point is any advantage the 360 had over multiplatform games is due to developers having less time to work with the PS3, that's it.

And what does a year head start give the 360? Just a small 23-20 win due in most part to it being out for a year already?

But in the end she admits the obvious throughout the video, PS3 is going to steamroll the 360 in the next few years

[Jack Torrance]

Originally Posted by bluearth

But in the end she admits the obvious throughout the video, PS3 is going to steamroll the 360 in the next few years

Next few years? Hah! M$, in their true fasion, will probably be trying to force everyone to buy their new console long before then to replace the obsolete 360.

As I said before, if that ever happens, there's gonna be a lot of pissed off 360 owners. I wonder how the fanbois will spin having to rebuy a console so soon as a positive thing?