I prefer the 360. While I'm enjoying better games and better online service, everyone else can enjoy no games and no online service.
Poll: Which console has worse problems?
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If your 360 freezes regularly, it's faulty. And all your XBLA titles should work offline, as long as you're playing them on the console and gamertag you originally downloaded them on (there's a license transfer tool online).Onyx Oblivion said:
Frankly, I'd rather have to replace a faulty piece of hardware than have it give away all my personal details, at the end of the day. But that's not, strictly speaking, a problem with the PS3.
Well i think to be honest proberly the ps3 now as the 360 had a red ring problem but that has been pretty much sorted now.I know alot of people with both consoles and i havent heard any of them getting red ring of death for ages.PS3 have had there YLOD and after having a rather weak line up they had finally were rather equal.
But now psn has been hacked and it hasnt had a online network for a while it doesnt look good again.
Also customer details being stolen thats got to hurt
But now psn has been hacked and it hasnt had a online network for a while it doesnt look good again.
Also customer details being stolen thats got to hurt
i didn't realize xbox live still offered free memberships.
i recall some people i know who said they canceleld the free memberships (or just made the free ones suck a lot)
but my friends already had gold, so they weren't too bothered.
psn has free option, and it offers most of what the psn paid does. some demos that you can't get, and psn paid often gets early access to betas, demos, and other goodies.
xbox has more hardware bugs. sony is currently having security issues. but sony is fixing the security issues.
ps3 is nice, cuz it's also a blu-ray player and media center.
replaces a media center pc, blu-ray player, and a game console.
the wii has to be the worst then, it only offers motion controls, mostly more child or family oriented games, and does nothing the other consoles can do. no blu-ray, no HD, no possibility of 3d, no standard controller with the system, etc.
i recall some people i know who said they canceleld the free memberships (or just made the free ones suck a lot)
but my friends already had gold, so they weren't too bothered.
psn has free option, and it offers most of what the psn paid does. some demos that you can't get, and psn paid often gets early access to betas, demos, and other goodies.
xbox has more hardware bugs. sony is currently having security issues. but sony is fixing the security issues.
ps3 is nice, cuz it's also a blu-ray player and media center.
replaces a media center pc, blu-ray player, and a game console.
the wii has to be the worst then, it only offers motion controls, mostly more child or family oriented games, and does nothing the other consoles can do. no blu-ray, no HD, no possibility of 3d, no standard controller with the system, etc.
Xbox is far worse off than Sony or at least its members are. It just so happens that Sony is hitting a rough patch, but as far as problems, 360 is your man.
If your 360 is offline and lets say that you bought a lot of XBLA games but had to move it to a different xbox or a you had a bunch of Indie Games you would not be able to play them. At ALL. See the PS3 gives you 5 copies, but the 360 gives you a "license" and a copy of the game for the xbox that downloaded it. The big catch to this license though is that you HAVE TO BE ONLINE for it to work. And while the actual game may be downloaded on your current 360 you're still locked out of it. Indie games are worse as most if not all of them you have to be online in order to play them, you don't even get an actual copy.
As well mircosoft will steal your money. Just try to cancel your subscription I can tell you that you will have a difficult time just doing that trivia task, and good luck doing it online, you will have to call in order to cancel. Not to mention that Mircosoft has the worst consumer service I have ever faced.
Oh yeah and all the "benefits" on the gold. The ones you can simply use a computer for. Or how about netflix? Why does every other console have free netflix? Even my PS3 with the current down time on the PSN, I can still log into netflix and use it, while my 360 wont let me because I dont pay them? Heck I could get netflix for my wii for free as well, That's just inexcusable Moneysoft.
Not to forget that RRoD though.
I have had my experience with all three systems and 360 as a whole bunch of problems and the big glaring problem know as Xbox Live Gold. Free members are treated like dirt.
If your 360 is offline and lets say that you bought a lot of XBLA games but had to move it to a different xbox or a you had a bunch of Indie Games you would not be able to play them. At ALL. See the PS3 gives you 5 copies, but the 360 gives you a "license" and a copy of the game for the xbox that downloaded it. The big catch to this license though is that you HAVE TO BE ONLINE for it to work. And while the actual game may be downloaded on your current 360 you're still locked out of it. Indie games are worse as most if not all of them you have to be online in order to play them, you don't even get an actual copy.
As well mircosoft will steal your money. Just try to cancel your subscription I can tell you that you will have a difficult time just doing that trivia task, and good luck doing it online, you will have to call in order to cancel. Not to mention that Mircosoft has the worst consumer service I have ever faced.
Oh yeah and all the "benefits" on the gold. The ones you can simply use a computer for. Or how about netflix? Why does every other console have free netflix? Even my PS3 with the current down time on the PSN, I can still log into netflix and use it, while my 360 wont let me because I dont pay them? Heck I could get netflix for my wii for free as well, That's just inexcusable Moneysoft.
Not to forget that RRoD though.
I have had my experience with all three systems and 360 as a whole bunch of problems and the big glaring problem know as Xbox Live Gold. Free members are treated like dirt.
Does the 360 really have the RRoD anymore? None of my friends have encountered it for 2 years now.
Well, I guess in the present, the Sony issue is much worse. 77 million (?) users all losing access to PSN strikes me as more serious than the slim posibility that my console may all of a sudden RRoD.
If you're talking about overall though it's harder to say. The blame for the RRoD went to Microsoft while a lot of the blame for the PSN outage is on the hackers. I'm tempted to say Sony will be getting less negative publicity for this than Microsoft did for the early consoles failing.
If users' credit details really were stolen though then it gets a lot more serious.
Well, I guess in the present, the Sony issue is much worse. 77 million (?) users all losing access to PSN strikes me as more serious than the slim posibility that my console may all of a sudden RRoD.
If you're talking about overall though it's harder to say. The blame for the RRoD went to Microsoft while a lot of the blame for the PSN outage is on the hackers. I'm tempted to say Sony will be getting less negative publicity for this than Microsoft did for the early consoles failing.
If users' credit details really were stolen though then it gets a lot more serious.
Bullshit, I say. Bullshit.Sentox6 said:
I can't play my Saint's Row 2 at all, because I'm offline. I can't even load the data, since it's DLC data.
Then you're using a different 360 than you originally purchased the DLC with, or somehow your licenses are screwed and you should redownload the content, although I've never heard of this happening.Onyx Oblivion said:
To anyone else reading this thread: you can use all DLC offline on your 360. This is a known and verified fact.
That's odd. Because I purchased all the DLC on the exact same 360. And even did a license transfer for the old stuff for Oblivion, which also didn't work, when I hit my 4th Xbox in fall '09. And even then, you only get one license transfer a year for the system with the highest failure rate in existence.Sentox6 said:
The issue here must is the limited patch storage, then.
The DLC can't be activated without a patch, and since the 360 uses a stupid cache system for the patch, only the most recently updated games with patches still in-queue allow DLC usage when offline.
Not quite as bad as what I claimed before, but still a shit system.
I don't think I have enough DLC on my system currently to verify this one way or the other, unfortunately.Onyx Oblivion said:
To clarify how it works, by memory: DLC is linked to the console ID it was purchased on, and can be played offline with any profile on that console.
Arcade games are linked to both the console and the gamertag for offline play.
well my friend just lost 750 usd (were both 16, so thats an ok amount) due to the sony-hacker-thinge, and i have personally never experienced haveing the RRoD on my xbox so i would say that the playstation haves a worse flaw..... at least until they get it fixt 
They're all problematic, took my wii 20 minutes to download a 1.2meg file, I've been through 6 x360's, because Sony is a giant bunch of assholes I have 8-10 gigs of linux and such on my 60GB HDD that I can't remove without formatting my system.
All my 360 rechargable batteries hold about an hour charge (biggest waste of money ever), PS3 updates take 15-20 minutes on a 25/25 connection, my keychain has more memory than my wii.
All and all? I'd rather play my PS2 or Sega Genesis as they work when they're turned on.
All my 360 rechargable batteries hold about an hour charge (biggest waste of money ever), PS3 updates take 15-20 minutes on a 25/25 connection, my keychain has more memory than my wii.
All and all? I'd rather play my PS2 or Sega Genesis as they work when they're turned on.
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OP: I guess Playstation has the worst problem i.e. only having a couple of good games
OP: I guess Playstation has the worst problem i.e. only having a couple of good games
Overall I think the 360's RRoD epidemic was worse than the Sony incident since the 360 was all on Microsoft and the hackers are to blame for Sony's issues. The RRoD problem is all but fixed by now and Sony will come back with an upgraded security so I think everything will work out.
Lord knows they both pale in comparision to the problems I get ever trying to play PC.
Lord knows they both pale in comparision to the problems I get ever trying to play PC.
