Poll: Should i buy a Xbox 360 Just for Halo Reach While allready owning a PS3?

[Stoogie]

Should i buy a Xbox 360 Just for Halo Reach? While also allready owning a PS3 Slim,

I'm quite poor however i can efford both if i stretch it, or sell 1.

i've previously had 3 xbox 360's but sold them all due to boredom lol.

the main differences between 360 and ps3 is that the 360 has more social features, the 360 doesnt crash as much(cough mag on ps3), 360 has lower frame rates (e.g. sacred 2 1080p on ps3 loads and gets more frames than 1080i on 360). the ps3 is cheaper(accessories, online), the ps3 comes with more features even tho i can allready do 3d bluray on pc with powerdvd 10 for example. the ps3 controllers analogs are 10bit not 8bit like 360's but the 360 controller wears out faster and the analogs are more plastic and disintegrate fast too, while the ps3 analogs are way way more rubberised and never wear out. however 360 uses 2.4ghz wireless and ps3 bluetooth 2.4ghz which is the same exept the output wattage like bluetooth as 1 milliwat which limits bandwidth to only like 150kb or something which if that is bad or not for latency i dont know. the ps3's voice codec online is really bad compared to xbox 360, however theres no decent shooters on ps3 apart from cod but thats on both and i dont like cod airstrike spamming cause its really lame and skill less.
also i hate space stuff and like japanese games and rather support the japanese than microsoft.

however my cousin and bro and 5-10 online friends from 2004 xbox 1 days only play xbox and i have basically none on ps3,

Should i buy a 360 for halo reach? total waste of money and time? i also heard halo reach wasnt that good, just repeated work previously achieved. like how halo 3 was just a repeat aswell.

best answer = 2 letters lol, but it still tempts me maybe i have a OCD for buying stuff. anyway tell me wat u guys think, no fanboyism please.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

Depends how much you really want Reach. It's apparently fun, according to critics and Harsh Critics. Do what you want.

Calumon: I wish I had that much money to use...

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

No. While I think Reach is a fine video game, if you plan on only using your 360 to play the game, that means said game effectively costs ~300 USD. That would bee a foolish exchange in my view.

That said, Halo Reach is almost certainly the best Halo game, but it achieves this by carefully refining out all those elements that made the past Halo games fun.

 

[Dark Knifer]

Depends. I wouldn't get a 360 if your libray for a ps3 is allready well established, or just for halo reach. If there are alot of games you want for the 360 and you don't have tons of ps3 games then go for it, but not just for one game. Even if it is really good.

 

[GamerRelic]

I think you should sell the PS3 As while PS3 Is stepping up exclusives it's developers just seem to not care about working as hard on it.

 

[Sleekgiant]

Sell the PS3 while there are still people who will buy that overpriced DVD player, get a 360( I would say get one with the blades menu but eh) and get all the good games for it like Reach.

 

[Deathkingo]

No! Just steal your friend's copy of it and hold it for ransom.

 

[Brotherofwill]

No. This is a lot of money you're thinking about. Get friends on PSN, problem solved.

 

[smut]

I have both systems and I enjoy them both. I am sure there will be some other game on the 360 you would want to play so it wouldn't be used just for Reach. I say go for it, I do not regret owning both systems at all. While fanboys argue over which exclusive is best, I get to play all of them.

 

[DigitalSushi]

Just borrow a friends Xbox, I'm sure you have at least one friend that is trusting enough of you to lend you there toys for a couple of days.

 

[Omikron009]

Reach is fantastic, but buying a console for just one game is.....how do I put this lightly.....completely fucking retarded. Don't do it.

 

[MercurySteam]

No, buying a new console for a single game is silly.

And this is coming from a 360 fanboy no less.

 

[Nexus4]

Not if it just for Reach, check to see if there are any other games only on 360 before committing your money. Reach is good and all, but it is in no way worth purchasing a console solely for it.

 

[midknightfox]

I do not own either ps3 or 360. I have friends who are fanboys of both. If someone were to hand me 400 bucks and tell me to buy a console with it. . . I wouldn't get a 360, I would save and get a ps3. (Don't label me a fanboy. Here is my reasoning.) I personally would never support the 360 simply because I think it was made just to haul in money, (EDIT: What I mean by this is that most of their games feel more rushed and generic, many of them are sequels or games pumped out every year for more cash it seems. Obviously EVERY console is on the market to make money, 360. . . PS3. . . Wii. . . none of them are out there to evolve gaming, there are there to make jobs and pay bills :EDIT) which they are doing in crazy amounts right now with Halo. Their games are all overdone a billion times and overhyped even more than that. I don't want to pay for online gaming anymore (been there, done that) and I would like fewer games that are REALLY worth my money rather than a dozen cookie cutter approaches to the same genre over and over. The ps3 seems to have more of those titles than the 360, so it makes more sense to me to go that route. THAT being said, here is my view on things.

Halo is a shooter, its not the best shooter, and its nearly the ONLY title the 360 has going for it. I don't know of many titles on the 360 that aren't for some other console. Nearly every game in its library is available somewhere else, console or PC.

PS3 has more exclusive titles, and the games that were REALLY good for the 360 get released on the PS3 with more content later on. Some of these re-releases even get exclusive content, or content for free that you had to pay extra for on 360. PS3 also has exclusive games that you will NEVER be able to get on any other console, or on PC.

If you want a shooter, I say look into some shooters on the PC. Steam alone has a pretty decent library of games. If you like having a controller in your hands, look into getting one online or find a guide that gets you set up with programming your PS3 controllers as any set of keys you want.

If this isn't about the games though. . . and is more about having time with your friends online. . . I have to say that is a FAR more difficult thing to judge. If you can't see them very often, it may be worth saving the money for it just because. . . hey, its time with people you care about. I personally have bought computer parts to play more online games with friends, and those parts have been well over the value of a 360. Do I regret getting those parts so I could hang out with people who moved far away? Not a bit. We don't play online games much together anymore (and that's why I bring my personal experience with buying expensive things to play one or two games my friends are) and even though we are both over those games and don't play them I certainly had LOTS of fun while we did for those few years.

I gauge any big buy with the following factors.
- How much is it?
- What do I WANT this for?
- How long do i anticipate using this?
- Will it be worth it to get any money back on it once I am done having my fun? (Will you just want it again. . . if the answer may be yes, don't even THINK of selling it, it will only lose you money in the long run.)
- How much is this worth to me? (This won't be a physical number sadly, but more of a common sense figure. Something between how much you want it, what you budget is, and what you are willing to pay for a product that does what you want it for)

I also usually ask myself the first and third. . . and then calculate how much a month the cost is to me. While the purchase is usually paid all at once, it helps to see roughly how much a month/day I am paying in the end for whatever it is I am buying. So for example: I wanted a new desktop computer when I first went into online gaming with my friends. I paid roughly 800 bucks for it, and I anticipated using it for about 2 years. I took that price of 800 and divided it by 24. . . 34 bucks when you round up (I always round cash up even if its closer to the lower number). 34 bucks a month. I ended up using it for 4 years so it was a lot less than that per month, but when I made the purchase I realized how much it was costing me to use the computer (even though I paid it all off at once because I had saved for it) and I felt that number wasn't extremely expensive. I know people who pay double that amount of money on new jackets and pants and magazine subscriptions. It was worth that much to me per month to have a good time and be with friends I could no longer see almost every weekend.

Hope that makes some sense and helps you out a bit. I just recently had this conversation with a friend of mine. For them, it wasn't about the console or the games, and it wasn't even a battle between the consoles. . . they just really wanted to hang online with their friends who were all playing Halo. If that is the case, maybe see if my above-mentioned scale of weighing buying decisions helps you out. Let me know if you have any questions on it. You are NOT the only person out there with this debate, I am sure.

 

[Forgetitnow344]

I personally would never support the 360 simply because I think it was made just to haul in money,

And I stopped reading.

OP, don't buy a console for a single game. Especially not a game like Reach. Sure, it's fun and I love it, but it's just an FPS. Even at its most innovative, the only replayability FPS games have is the community appeal. There are plenty of other shooters you can play on your PS3, and you'll really have just as much fun on those as you would on Reach in the long run.

Edit: I certainly don't mean to say Reach isn't worth its own price tag though. It's one of my favorite purchases this year. Firefight has led to sooooo much fun in just this past month. If you take the time to really put some effort into it, Firefight can be an extremely innovative tool that allows you to play a seemingly endless combination of different variables that always lead to a different experience.

 

[midknightfox]

I personally would never support the 360 simply because I think it was made just to haul in money,

And I stopped reading.

It's funny you stopped reading there because as I went back to watching my show . . . that sentence was one that nagged me. I phrased it wrong, I edited it.

Like I said in the edit, every company is just after money. None of them are setting out on missions to change gaming as we know it. Its money and bills and jobs.

As I said later in the post that you stopped reading. . . I personally choose PS3 over 360 because I prefer having a few different or really well done games that span a decent amount of game genres, not 20-30 with nearly all the same genre. From what I have seen, 360 seems to be more sequels and cookie cutter games. I don't play that many games, so the ones I play I like to be the BEST of the best on the market. Because of this, I feel PS3 has more of a library I can get behind.

I don't own either, so I can only really base what I currently feel off of what I have seen others talking about. I could be wrong, this is just what I feel I know for now. I don't have a desire to own a system at this point in time, so I haven't done any thorough research. I still think ps3 would be more up my alley from what I HAVE seen though.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

*Reads question*

*Stares for 5 minutes while ascertaining whether OP is serious or not*

*Slaps thread starter for spouting nonsense*

 

[Danzaivar]

Getting a 360 to play Reach isn't good value for money imo. Getting a 360 because all your friends are on XBL rather than PSN however, does seem worth the money.

 

[rex922]

get both.
because ecksbawx has some games that i dont think are on ps3.

Like deathsmiles(i think)