Xbox 360 or PS3 - which was better?

The Trey.

Dat PS Triple.

100% perfect dog shite, yes

Xbox 360 by far and I honestly don't even see how this is even debatable. There is a reason that Sony made the PS4 more similar to the Xbox 360 than the PS3.

PS3 had better exclusives in the second half of the gen, but the Xbox 360 beats it at absolutely everything else. Xbox 360 had a far better online service which revolutioned gaming, a better controller which is considered by many to be the greatest controller of all time, a better marketplace, a better OS, quicker DLC for the industry's most popular games like GTA and Call of Duty, a better indie scene, industry changing innovations like achievements, better versions of multiplats most of the time, and it had better exclusives in the first half of the gen (PS3 had a terribly slow start).

ps3 by a fair margin - sony supported it with a huge range of exclusives. the 360 was pretty much a halo/gears/forza milkage machine

360 first half (2005-2008/9)

PS3 second half (2008/9-2013)

Xbox 360 by far like PS4 this gen .

Hardware=Have to give it to the 360 personally never had RROD and still have my 2007 console in good condition, PS3 had 3 blu-ray failures and a faulty harddrive.

Game Library=PS3, 360 started off well but petered off towards the end.

Network/Online=360 far more stable and faster connection, always found PSN to be slow and can be unstable at times.

Overall personally I give it to the PS3 as the games are more important to me, although I found last GEN MEH.

Wow, takes me back. Back to the days when everyone that supported the PS3 couldn't do so without mentioning the Blurry Drive. Now the tables have kinda switched. But I'm already bored talking about last gen. Yawn.

PS3. Had fun with both but in the end, I only used the PS3 due to slightly better graphics and easier mp3 support, which was great for NHL and FIFA.

Yes. I don't know about everyone else, but so far the only thing I got out of my ps4 was pain. I was hyped for Inquisition, and while I don't regard it as terrible, I certainly was not left satisfied with the whole thing. Watch Dogs turned out to be bad, The Order failed as well, so did Destiny. I haven't payed much attention to the Xbox one /Wii U, but at least I can say that compared to my experience with the ps3, this is a joke. Still hoping for FF XV to bring back FF's ancient glory, but that is probably just wishful thinking. I'm playing more with my older consoles than with the ps4, which is not a good sign at all.

LOL WTF

'360 was a shooter console'

No, PS3 had just as many shooters. 360 has Halo and PS3 had Resistance, Killzone and MAG. It's not our fault Sony sucks at shooters.

'PS3 artsy and JRPG'

Exaggerated, it had maybe a handful more games of this type here and there. As for JRPGs, maybe a few extra, but nothing like the PS2 days.

In fact this was the gen Playstation lost its identity and became a western console like the Xbox. People say what did the Xbox bring. It introduced western gaming from the PC over to consoles in a big way, because most of Japan snubbed it. As a result, western gaming became a bigger deal, Playstation adopted it and Japanese game development is in decline.

The consoles were so similar, I couldn't justify buying a PS3 on top of my 360 when the opportunity came up, because truthfully, outside of a handful of games, they are very much the same thing.

@masterkurosawa:

Not only does it play those consoles, but it makes it easy to hook them up to modern tvs yet also offers the component option if one wants to use a crt.

@SolidGame_basic: I have both. Online the 360 was best. Exclusive PS3 Was best, overall the PS3 had a better library aswell. PS3 for me because it's still getting games. 360 has been dead since 2012

Ni no Kuni and Okami (admittedly, it is a HD remastered version) were pretty artsy, more so than most Xbox 360 games. Well, mainly some Tales games (which is already something), some Atelier games, lolHyperdimension Neptunia (for better or worse), Disgaea and some other minor ones. Sure, Persona/Nocturne/Kingdom Hearts etc were some amazing rpgs back then, but it's not like the ps3 didn't do anything special either.
^Which is both good and bad. Good because market and because the western games have some truly outstanding gems as well (Red dead Redemption just to name one), and bad because well, you said it yourself, it isn't anything unique anymore. More western games means less time for japanese ones, but I guess we still have the Nintendo handhelds and the Wii for that.
I looked into the exclusives of both consoles and the ps3's array of games gave it an edge over the Xbox in my case.

Yes, I saw your list in an earlier post. Lots of games that were on previous consoles as well. Also MGS series is on the 360 apart from 1 and 4 and FF games are on many other platforms as well.

It's not so much that their is less time Japanese games, there's less demand now. Which is good for me, western games for western gamers, they appeal to me personally more. I also get this vibe (not from you) that if a game is western, it means it's less 'artsy', and that seems a bit pretentious to me. The indie and arcade scene is pure art.

I agree, Nintendo still feels like a Japanese console.

No. The Xbox 360 had a great library of games and most important better mulitplat games.

Cool story bro, too bad you are wrong.

wii or ps3 would have been the better question.

the 360 was irrelevant, not one memorable game came out of that box. I mean sure... it played mutiplats better than the other 2 consoles, but what good was that when you could also play those same exact games on pc? native 1080p, 60fps.

If it weren't for the rampant hardware issues, I'd say the 360 -- in fact, I think the 360 and PS2 would stand neck and neck in the superlative echelon of video game consoles. PS3 takes it though if only for it's reliability.

This is more or less my thoughts. '09 was kind of a pivot year where the PS3 started getting all the "just wait" titles and improvements to PSN, along with decent pricepoint. Let's face it that was 4yrs after the 360 came out.

Lessons from last gen: Early adopt Nintendo consoles, wait on MS and Sony consoles, play multiplats on PC.

actually... you can, if you hook up your 360 to your computer via VGA cables.

NEXT!

I love all my systems equally bar Vita.

@HalcyonScarlet:

About that, I admittedly didn't use 'exclusive' correctly. What I wanted to do was list games which were unavailable to gamers with only a 360. So basically I was just listing what the ps3 has to offer which the 360 doesn't. MGS 2 and 3 are available on the Xbox too? My bad then. I'd still argue that MGS 4 is a point by itself though.

To each his own I guess. As for the 'artsy' thing, I never got that impression either. Journey, Hotline Miami and many adventure games I've played were 'artsy' and colorful. I suppose that notion came into existence after never-ending waves of shooters came out for the ps3 and the xbox 360.

PS3.

But it's strange to refer to it as a "JRPG" console, because it was mostly lacking in that area (though not as lacking as the 360). The best "JRPG" console last gen was the Wii.

Hmmm that's a tough one for me... If it wasn't for RRoD, I would've stuck with 360 for the majority of last gen for sure. But because of it, I swapped to PS3 as my main console.

So my heart preferred 360, but my brain preferred PS3 (if that makes any sense).

They were both good in their ways and actually had some differences that mattered compared to this current gen.. Now XboxOne and PS4 are basically interchangeable outside of marginal hardware performance differences.