Nah, don't think I'll do that unless the PS3 stops working or there are a lot of games I want to play that will only be available for the 360
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I can't say much on the original pricing of the 360, but when I bought it it was much more cost efficient. And remember that hard drives meant different things for each console. It was mandatory to install the game on the PS3, whereas this was not so on the 360, so the hard drive didn't need to be nearly as large. Also remember that the 360 came out a full year before the PS3, and was priced more competitively once it had decent competition. Blu-ray also wasn't the dominant format at that time, so stating that the PS3 had blu-ray really didn't mean anything at that period of time. (even today, unless you are looking for a blu-ray player, the difference is fairly minor)Mimsofthedawg said:
You also seem to think that exclusives are the only way to judge a console's game library. This really isn't true. Maybe the exclusives are more diverse on the PS3, but the whole libraries of both were rather diverse, meaning that they equally appealed to around the same market of gamers. If you remember, cross-platform games tended to work better on the 360, as it hasn't been until recently that developers really worked out all the kinks between the two. The 360 has always been simply easier to develop for.
If you want to believe in metacritic that's fine, I just take their scores with a large grain of salt. (I didn't dismiss it either, I simply stated you shouldn't use metacritic scores as the sole judge of a game's quality)
as for the rest of your post, a lot of that is extremely subjective. I moved from the ps2 to the 360 controller fine, so maybe you have a different preference, I'm not sure. As for online, you're probably the first person I've seen that said that XboxLive was inferior to PSN, so again, maybe you like something different. Maybe the 360 exclusives didn't appeal to you (most of them are shooters, maybe that's not your thing?), but to anyone who is a fan of shooters, the 360 had more. Shooters have an extremely large market, which partially lead to the success of the 360.
Again, it all comes down to your preferences. By the sound of it, you weren't the targeted market for the 360, and as you said, you're anti-xbox, so you're always going to think that the 360 is crap, no matter what I say to defend it. Honestly I think the consoles are equally good, and (at this point) evenly priced. (I'm using the base prices for the sole reason that not everyone will get the same extra stuff, so even if you get everything, and that happens to be more expensive, it's not a general case scenario) At this point any further argument is just subjective differences. (and besides, I'm tired of typing walls of text, so can we just agree to disagree here?)
Over the past few years I've switched I went from Nintendo to Sony to Microsoft. I'm happy with my 360 and I'm mostly satisified with XBL so I don't plan to make a switch back to Sony anytime in the forseeable future. However, if I find myself with some extra disposable income I might conisder getting a PS3 or whatever their next console is.