Let me present a few reasons on why i feel that the 360 would be a great choice over the ps3. First and foremost in my opinion is the controller, i feel that it is very ergonomical for ones hand, especially with shooting games, an example would be cod3 for 360 with the m1 garand bolt action rifle, when you pull the right trigger to shoot it really feels like a gun in your hand compared to the ps3 buttons, i also feel that the rumble in a controller is extremely important for an overall gaming experience, when your hit with a bullet in ps3 and you dont die, you could assume that you got a little kick left in you and keep fighting and suicide, but when the 360 controller pulses along with the auditory heavy breathing from the soldier you know for sure that you need to get cover.
Also, I like the online functionality of xbox live, in my opinion it delivers a more constant gaming experience, with guaranteed voice chat, and truskill rankings, when i see that one of my friends has logged on to cod3, i put the disk in, press 2 buttons and i have instantly joined his exact game while in a private communication channel that wont end when the game does. this feature is expanded to virtually all 360 games that you want to play online in. also, i like the videomarketplace because when my girlfriend comes over, i have the option of just renting an hd movie for like 2.50$ and watch it, also it has an extremely large library of things to rent/buy.
My pc is my powerhouse, it holds all my music, all my videos, all my pictures, thousands and thousands of them, the 360 can stream all these files off my pc harddrive and i can access all the media on my pc through my 360 without taking up the 360's harddrive space
In terms of watching hd movies and owning them, i think that the external hd dvd player is a good idea. one, its optional and only 199$. and two, it is external, this means that when i watch an hd movie i will not be taxing the disk lens that is in my 360, i have gone through 4 ps2's in the last 7 years and i think this is partially because of all the dvd's i watched on my ps2 whereas the 360 provides a 2nd external drive to prolong longevity.
If you are worried that the 3 rings of death will fall upon you I would like to add that i am on my 2nd 360, a few months ago my xbox just wouldent read disks, the reason i am saying this is because the customer service was very helpful, i was under the 1 year warranty, and in 7 days i had a brand new 360 at no charge.
Finally, the games. a huge library spanning a large genre of games, im not going to start an argument about mgs4, i think the last ones were great and i am looking foward to playing 4 on my 360. I have a large hunch that it is going to the 360 because it is not first party sony. Basically it comes down to the fact that alot of the 360's games are owned by 1st and 2nd party developers whereas sony has alot of 3rd party dev's making games. this means that a 360 exclusive will never ever be on a ps3 but a ps3 exclusive from a 3rd party dev "can" be on 360, this is seen most recently in dmc4, and gtaiv. The loyalty of 3rd party developers has nothing to do with the company they are making the game for, they want to put their game in as many homes as possible and sell the most copies. they dont want to make a game exclusive to ps3 and loss out on a potential profit of 10 million more games sold. this is just logic with econ 101
I hope this helps you out, seriously get a 360 and enjoy everything it has to offer, the xbox live is definately worth 4$ a month, the controller is fantastic, and the games that you can get for the 360 will be the best games for us shooter fans Halo 3, Half life OJ box, turok
If you do get a 360, add me to your friend list im crazyivaniv and we can tear up france in cod3
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