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Originally posted by Matthew D ACtually the overheating/noisey fan/ and board problems have pretty much all been addressed in the Falcon Chipset or Later generations of the 360. you are however leaving out one MAJOR benefit of the 360 over the PS3 (depending on your preferences) Mother effing NETFLIX. HOLY HELL I just signed up for mine over my vacation and sweet lord I am HOOKED. I'm going to be cancelling most of my cable premium channels because of Netflix's XBox live streaming deal... freaking AWESOME.

Get a jasper.

tough choice. i would have to say go with the 360. like others have said, steaming netflix is totally badass. plus you just don't get the online action that a 360 has to offer. just look at the online stats for Call of Duty 4 on each. 10million online for 360 vs. the 5million for ps3. the blu-ray is great and all but there DVDs are expensive. not to mention that even though sony/bluray camp said they wouldn't raise the prices when HDDVD went down, they still did. as a company, i am disgusted at how Sony treats their customers. their business ethics are horrible and i refuse to promote someone with ethics so bad.

anyway, that's my .02

PS3


eh dicho!

Ps3 of course cant wait for street fighter 4 to come out

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Originally posted by daydreamer PS3 eh dicho!

Uh oh, the moderator said PS3, so sorry guys, PS3 it is.

No no, seriously nice reviews. It's looking like the PS3 takes the gold but I do have a netflix account (Ryan, check it out at the App Store as well), and netflix is the shit.

As far as pricing, I'm thinking I'd like to wait it out, but the only thing with that is it's pointless (other than paying less BEING the point), because game systems will continue coming out, older one's will drop in value, and game console technology will always outgrow the lesser, so I might as well drop the money now. I'm pretty sure they'll be going even lower than $316 (someone's gotta make money somewhere). The plasma I bought, a year ago, weighed in at $3700. I just scored it at Best Buy for less than half that.

I'm thinking in the dj world, cdj's are going to be dropping in price like flies. I'm sure everything's looking touch-screen in the next few years or so....even cars for God's sake.

It's taken quite some time for the PS3 to drop in price at all. The only reason why it's 399 now is because the original 80Gb model with the Ps2 compatibility is no longer available therefore they are saving more money just selling the basic model with no backwards compatibility. Like I said Sony is already losing about 50 dollars for every PS3 purchase which is down just recently so that's not really going to translate to a lower PS3 price by much. By waiting you are only going to save max 50 bucks I'm betting.

316 is more than reasonable. The only way to save more like I said is to apply for a sony card when they are offering 100-150 back on a PS3 purchase.

Also once you go blu-ray on your plasma it'll be hard to watch streaming netflix movies. Also since you already have netflix you should have no problems renting blu-ray movies since they are available on netflix as well. Not streaming but as of right now streaming movies on netflix are not in HD anyway. What a waste of a plasma. Why watch SD on your nice plasma? How big is it anyway? Anything less than a 6mb connection gets you less than DVD quality.

If you have a surround sound system to then streaming netflix doesn't give you the DTS or dolby digital that you would get. I might be wrong but this is what I've read.

lol okay fine. I've done a ton of reading on this. yal buy your PS3's and when I buy it for $299 in April, i'll be laughing at you

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Originally posted by sharper lol okay fine. yal buy your PS3's and when I buy it for $299 in April, i'll be laughing at you

17+tax difference? Worth waiting almost 4 months? :P. I'm sure carlos makes fairly good money that 17 bucks isn't gonna break his bank right?

either way, each system is great. Just all depends on what you want your system to do. Xbox 360 has the edge in games however slight, but PS3 has the huge edge in movies.

You said you play PC games as well so I'm guessing most of the FPS games you wouldn't enjoy on the XBOX or the PS3. I tried playing FPS games on the PS3 and I don't enjoy it. I need a keyboard and mouse.

Each games have their exclusives and it looks like XBOX is getting most of them. Unfortunate for the PS3 but they have some pretty good games as well. Take a look at the list of exclusives and that might help you determine which system to get.

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Originally posted by sharper lol okay fine. I've done a ton of reading on this. yal buy your PS3's and when I buy it for $299 in April, i'll be laughing at you

found the article you might be referring to.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/12/p...ii-staying-put/

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Originally posted by BiGGieStuFF I'm sure carlos makes fairly good money that 17 bucks isn't gonna break his bank right?

needs moar Ramen

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Originally posted by BiGGieStuFF It's taken quite some time for the PS3 to drop in price at all. The only reason why it's 399 now is because the original 80Gb model with the Ps2 compatibility is no longer available therefore they are saving more money just selling the basic model with no backwards compatibility. Like I said Sony is already losing about 50 dollars for every PS3 purchase which is down just recently so that's not really going to translate to a lower PS3 price by much. By waiting you are only going to save max 50 bucks I'm betting.

Good point.
So the "current" PS3 comes with no backwards compatibility? I mean, not that i really own any PS2 games, maybe one or two at most.

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Originally posted by Carlos Pereira Good point. So the "current" PS3 comes with no backwards compatibility? I mean, not that i really own any PS2 games, maybe one or two at most.

Only with ps1 games. They do plan on selling the whole back catalouge of ps2 games sometime in the future.