Which was the most powerful console last gen?

I'll say even. Some exclusives looked amazing on the ps3 but I wouldn't say 360 games weren't anywhere close.

Wii... Lol id say PS3

I say Wii, i have no clue.

If we use GTAV as a benchmark, not a whole lot of difference.

PS3. Uncharted 3 and God of War 3 looked better than any game on 360.

Lol at people calling the 360 more powerfull then the PS3.

That's like saying a Fiat Panda is faster then a Honda s2000.

Yes it's faster , if the Honda is tied to a tree.

ps3 was great for super linear games and xbox was better for open world.

Yeah , that's why LA Noire was on 3 discs.

evenly matched

I say they are both even but PS3 did had one slightly advantage, it had Blu-Ray while the Xbox 360 did not meaning PS3 games were able to have one disc in some games while 360 had to use 2 discs for the lack of Blu-Ray.

They were evenly match. PS3's RAM was so putrid you couldn't even have party chats outside of games. 256MB for system and another 256MB for video. That was pathetic.

It had probably a faster CPU much harder to code for but a weaker GPU. They had different strengths and weaknesses. Most multiplatform games shone on 360 but PS3 had exclusives that were really hard to beat if devs knew what they were doing with the hardware. Tie at most otherwise slight edge to the 360 for having a better and easier architecture.

On paper: PS3

In reality: 360

Both were about even, but when both were pushed to their limits, the PS3 had a slight edge.

yup, thats why skyrim still doesnt work on ps3. u mad bruh?

WiiU

The PS3 had Blu-ray, and a more powerful processor (that was also more difficult to develop for)

The XBOX 360 had a more standard processor, and more advanced GPU

Ouya.

Too close to call I say.

The only time I really noticed a difference was when I would buy NCAA Football games on PS3. It almost made my eyes bleed. It didn't make much sense though since Sony exclusives looked better than M$ exclusives imo.

People were flying space ships with ps3 consoles and not xbox 360 consoles. The answer is obvious.

The 360 is all around the better designed piece of hardware outside of heating issues.

There is nothing on the xbox360 that looks as good as God of War 3, Heavy Rain, Beyond 2 Souls, TLOU, Uncharted 2/3 and probably a few more.

The PS3 wins in terms of graphics/power. There is no debate. I don't care how hard the games are to make. I don't care what it says on paper. I don't care about any of those garbage reasons I have read so far in supporting the 360.

All I care about is which console shows the prettiest graphics on my HDTV and the PS3 is the winner.

You have to be a delusional fanboy to say the 360 was more powerful.

Power depended primarily on how you utilized the assets each system sported. PS3 was generally considered inferior, however, because most games were not built from the ground-up for it due to its complex architecture and the cell required developers to adapt to it. X360 benefited from this early on and, after market share tipped heavily in their favor, most publishers/developers targeted X360 as their lead platform and ported to cell after the fact.

Best PS3 games look better so you have to give it to them

I think the PS3 was theoretically a little more powerful than the Xbox 360, but it didn't matter, because functionally, the PS3 design was restrained by crippled RAM, as well as by a hard to code for hardware architecture base. Essentially, both the consoles evened out in the end, with maybe a slight theoretical advantage to PS3. Nothing like this gen, where the PS4 is very obviously more powerful, or the sixth generation, where the GameCube and Xbox clowned PS2.

Ps3, but it doesn't matter because It's lacking in memory - Ps3's is split, has 18MB's less due to its OS, + 360 has some nice eDRAM - and Cell was a bitch.

And a lack of blu ray, and an intentionally faulty DVD drive that scratches discs.

For game development it's better but beyond that, the hardware is all around terrible.

they were close...

''Both had different strengths/weaknesses''.

I would say that, at the end, 360 was slightly more capable due to it's superior GPU and better RAM solution.

PS3 was stronger. Even though it had the RAM bottleneck, PS3 produced the best looking games by far (at the end of the gen)

PS3 was. Fact in 2015.

On paper PS3 and if you coded around the PS3's architecture you could get better performance out of it, in reality the 360 was more versatile, easier to develop for and you got a better ROI in terms of man hours put into development and the resulting game at the end.

Halo 4, Gear 3 & Forza 4 all the best looking games last gen

Wow , really short straw.

Try again.

It was close but none of the 360 exclusives came close to PS3 exclusives graphically.

Well , on paper PS3 was far better ...

In action ... was an epic fail considering all the promises and hype before its release and the results after where it couldnt even play better multiplatform games vs X360

That was a big issue and for that reason it failed.

so did the ps2 fail because of the DRE issue that Sony never addressed?

Mine, the powah of SP flows from mah hand to the controller and straight to the box. :P

PS3 but Sony shot itself in the foot with the stupidly complex Cell CPU, so 3rd party games were mostly superior on the X360.

The bluray was mostly a detriment to the system. See the long load times, increase price tag, and mandatory installs.

The "faulty" DVD drive was not intentional so much as penny pinching.

The hype for the cell was hilarious. PS3 never came close to what it was hyped up to be. I'd say they were evenly matched.

Based on what?

Xbox 360. All multiplatforms look better on the 360 than ps3. That should be your answer right there.

This.

"Teh Cell" was a horrible move by Sony. So was the RAM partition.

The 2 consoles were really close though, and towards the end of the gen the PS3 finally starting getting some superior multiplats (GTA5 and Bioshock: Infinite). Again, the differences were negligible most of the time.

Yup and I'm glad the PS4 doesn't have "teh cell."