I own a PS3 and and a Xbox 360.
I hate the Xbox because its such a failure as a gaming console. The actual console itself is 3 weeks old for me and I get disc read errors - alot of them, sometimes the console has to stop working and spin the disc as fast as it can just to load a message I got from the AI in a game saying that he wants me to give him 100 gold pieces. The controller is just a plain failure. Although its nice to have trigger buttons over R2 and L2 the RB and LB buttons feel like there not being pressed no matter how hard you try, the left analog stick has the worst positioning ever which forces your hands into uncomtforble position. The directional pad is so cheap that your not actually meant to press the button down in the position you want it to go, you actually have to push the whole pad back and forth and left and right if you want a decent response. The controller feels more like a heavy brick then a controller and youll notice itll make youre palms sweat really quickly.
Is the Xbox live ,Gears of war, Halo 3 and Forza motorsport 2 a good reason to get a doomed to die Xbox 360?. Not at all.
Ill start with how bad Xbox live is in comparison to PSN.
If I wanted to find Oblivion add ons on XBL I'd have to click on the games section which is time consumin since the Xbox is meant to be a gaming machine then search a alphabetical list of 600 Abreviations and half cut names meaning gme names wont be where there meant to be. I'd have to go down the list and problem is that XBL only displays about 5 names at a time on a 32 inch HDTV. Also XBL only loads about 30 names at a time so I'd have to stop every minute and wait five minutes for Microsoft to send me the game names. By the time I got to Oblivions section id have to look through a downwards list - which is stupid since most TVs are wider then they are tall to find what I want then convert Mcrosoft points to dollars to find the real price.
If I wanted to find Oblivion on PSN Id click on Add-ons(notice how I dont have to click on games first haha) then go through my options which would ll be shown as icons in Boxes in one huge box that takes advantage of screens being wider then they are tall.(clearly PSN was designed by a guy who was actually smart) Then I'd have to click on the Letter O in a box, big and clear. Then instead of the simple inconveniant list of names in one of those small boxes it shows the games Box art(this is much much better) and if I highlight the box art it shows the games name in the top left. Then I'd see the add ons (more like add on since PSN is still lacking stuff but I'd rather scroll through a small list of stuff then scroll through XBLs big list of junk) and I'd see its price in dollars which is much much more conveniant.
Gears of war is quite a dissapointment since its really boring and typical with the "Everyone else in the prison was tortured to death and hanged with chains with the exception of you" at the start. Halo 3 just feels the same as Halo 2 and Forza Motorsport 2 is lacking Events and cars in comparison to Gran Turismo 4.
Chances are ill get crucified. division_9
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