Poll: Is a PS3 worth it?

[Swaki]

yes sure, b.t.w moniez? also whit absolutely no respect, your friends must be idiots, if one of my friends got a new console and some good games my first respond wouldn't be "i am going to kill you" but rather "any multiplayer games?", and since you use z instead of s you too are probably an idiot.

 

[Baldry]

Yeah, PS3 kicks ass. And there's a lot of good exclusives. And its just all around awesome.

Yep!

 

[Irishhoodlum]

So the exclusives are better because you say so? Or am I missing something at this point?

Here where I live (Switzerland ) PS3 games are also usually 10-20CHF more than xbox games.
Oh and I might just be lucky but I have 2 360's (and a Wii by God I'm not a fanboy D, and one has been going for 2.5+ years and the other for 1.5+ years, while my PS2 broke after 2 months and 3 of my friends with PS3s all had it break at least once. (one of em had to get it repaired 3 times :/)
But then that's just my experience. Oh and also use one of those controllers before you buy it, I just can't get over the shoulder buttons (triggers or whatever the hell they are, they're uncomfortable and awkward).

Back to my point from my earlier post, I have a lot of barely used PS2 games that I wouldn't mind playing, but peer pressure (hah) is urging me to buy a ps3, and I definitely won't buy both.

I also got to play enough ps3 exclusives over the last few months / year, and I must say I'm glad I chose the xbox. Of course it just depends on your taste, but I had no fun with Killzone 2, Uncharted, MGS4, or Linger in Shadows. While on the other hand, any time we get together for a 3 day system link / general console nerding, we have all consoles available (twice for system link) but we always (even though the ratio of PS3 to xbox guys is usually 6:2) end up playing a hell of a lot more xbox. Then again that's just because PS3 owners around here don't buy many games (so not that many options for system link or split screen in general). We end up playing Wii (or should I say Brawl) more than ps3.

Well I ended up rambling (and using a shit ton of brackets).

Admittedly I can't disprove anything you've said, but I call shenanigans! I find it damned unlikely that of 3 PS3s, a PS2 and 2 360s that every single PS3 and PS2 broke (one of them 3 times, and another in 2 months?), but both the 360s remain unscathed. Even if it's true though, it's hardly a good representative of PS3s and 360s worldwide. If you're deciding between a PS3 and a 360 purely off their failure rate, reason and statisticts would suggest going with the PS3 since the 360 is looking at a supposed failure rate of 54% to the PS3's 10-20 (OK I don't remember exactly, but the numbers on the Escapist were around there-abouts).

Anyways back to the OP I would say sure go for the PS3 (I sound like a horrible fanboy, maybe I am one), unless you prefer a lot of online (specifically with your friends) to the PS3's exclusives then I'd say go with the 360 since it sounds like that's what they have.

 

[Lowbreed]

*snip

Admittedly I can't disprove anything you've said, but I call shenanigans! I find it damned unlikely that of 3 PS3s, a PS2 and 2 360s that every single PS3 and PS2 broke (one of them 3 times, and another in 2 months?), but both the 360s remain unscathed. Even if it's true though, it's hardly a good representative of PS3s and 360s worldwide. If you're deciding between a PS3 and a 360 purely off their failure rate, reason and statisticts would suggest going with the PS3 since the 360 is looking at a supposed failure rate of 54% to the PS3's 10-20 (OK I don't remember exactly, but the numbers on the Escapist were around there-abouts).

Sure, it might indeed not be representative of the entire world, but none of my friends' ps2s broke, that was mine. From 12 maybe more friends with ps3's 3 of them got theirs fixed, one guy had his fixed 3 times. Some others can't play for long periods of time or have to angle a fan at their PS3 because it overheats. From the 5 people with xboxes (I'm included) none of us ever had any problems (and I have 2 of em!), the most was one of them got the overheating sign, but turns out there was (A LOT of) dust blocking the fan .

I didn't decide on failure rate (I'm Swiss for Christ's sake we can fix things...) but I decided on the fact that: Xbox came out earlier, and didn't cost: 599 US dollars

Oh and believe me it's true...

 

[Irishhoodlum]

*snip

Admittedly I can't disprove anything you've said, but I call shenanigans! I find it damned unlikely that of 3 PS3s, a PS2 and 2 360s that every single PS3 and PS2 broke (one of them 3 times, and another in 2 months?), but both the 360s remain unscathed. Even if it's true though, it's hardly a good representative of PS3s and 360s worldwide. If you're deciding between a PS3 and a 360 purely off their failure rate, reason and statisticts would suggest going with the PS3 since the 360 is looking at a supposed failure rate of 54% to the PS3's 10-20 (OK I don't remember exactly, but the numbers on the Escapist were around there-abouts).

Sure, it might indeed not be representative of the entire world, but none of my friends' ps2s broke, that was mine. From 12 maybe more friends with ps3's 3 of them got theirs fixed, one guy had his fixed 3 times. Some others can't play for long periods of time or have to angle a fan at their PS3 because it overheats. From the 5 people with xboxes (I'm included) none of us ever had any problems (and I have 2 of em!), the most was one of them got the overheating sign, but turns out there was (A LOT of) dust blocking the fan .

I didn't decide on failure rate (I'm Swiss for Christ's sake we can fix things...) but I decided on the fact that: Xbox came out earlier, and didn't cost: 599 US dollars

Oh and believe me it's true...

Not to say it's not, but if he (or anyone) was going to decide based on failure rate I think they should pick a PS3 just because taking everything into account -simply put- it's less likely to break.

Anyways the PS3 is only $300 now, so I'd say it's a decent time to buy one.

 

[blood77]

well... yeah.

The ps3 isn't BAD, but... well... it's not particularly Good either.
I would personally buy a 360 ( the games are cheaper which makes up for paying for LIVE)
plus the newer XBOX's don't ever seem to red ring (mine hasn't).

Ok I am fine with giving your own opinion on the subject. But don't lie:

360 [http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?sku=200576]
PS3 [http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?sku=270304]

Ok so where is that price difference?


Anyway, both systems have problems, but both are still good despite those problems. If you already have a 360 and you want to play PS3 exclusives what else can you do.

I have had a PS3 since they first came out, and for a while it was annoying because there weren't many games that I liked for it. But now there are a number of good titles for it and the blue-ray is cool. So basically yeah, I would give this thing my seal of approval, if I had one.