Poll: Which console has worse problems?

[Ashcrexl]

interestingly enough, i find my blu-ray player (yeah, i own a blu-ray player AND a ps3) is the least reliable thing i have.

and yeah, RRRRRRRROD is the worst, defos. the psn thing isnt hardware.

 

[noble cookie]

Well, xbox 360's dont RROD that much anymore, especially if you look after them.

Mine has been fine for 4 years and it's still going. Sure its a pretty bad problem but at the moment I think PS3 has it the worst.

 

[Thunderhorse31]

Seeing as how I've never had a single problem with my 360 (4 years old), had my PS3 get the YLOD, and am always on XBL with zero issues (DLC, connection, etc.), I say the PS3 has worse problems.

But yeah, that's TOTALLY subjective.

Objectively, on a massive scale, the 360 is worse - but goddamn if Sony isn't trying to catch up.

 

[Grey_Focks]

Regardless of what the PS3 owners have recently gone through, the Xbox 360 is still worse. Games become literally unplayable if the DLC for them is downloaded and the console is offline (same goes for XBLA games)

...Wait what? My internet sometimes goes down, and I am still fully able to play all of my games with DLC, including Fallout 3, both Mass Effects, both Dragon Ages, Borderlands, Halo 3+Reach, both Gears of wars...what you said just isn't true at all. I've also played quite a few XBL arcade games offline. Sounds like you're just unlucky? Will agree about them dicking over non-gold users though.

Honestly, every system still has it's problems, and I'd say that, for the 360 and PS3 atleast, the pros still out-weigh the cons. Also, isn't this kinda a versus thread? Aren't those not allowed? Even if this doesn't count as one, 10 points from Griffindor for the OP starting a pointless flamebait thread.

 

[General_Potatoes]

The xbox has tech issues.
The ps3 actually doesn't have as many issues other than the hack
And the wii...... is just plain bad.

 

[Lt. Dragunov]

Both have issues, right now sony is in the spot light but when this all has died down microsoft will have it's next big problem, and the baton will be passed back to sony and so on and so on.

 

[GamingAwesome1]

I see much ragging on the Xbox's free membership abilities.

Which is totally valid.

Here's the thing that baffles me, your closest competitor offers everything you do for free, how do you counter this?

You raise the price and make free memberships worse.

Just my personal bitchings, right now Sony is ass-deep in all kinds of problems.

 

[bluewolf]

Well, my xbox crashes allot when I play games like fallout 3 and dragon age, but I would say my ps3 is worse due to harder controlls and the hacking.

 

[Macrobstar]

I prefer the 360. While I'm enjoying better games and better online service, everyone else can enjoy no games and no online service.

While we don't have online services, I'd say PS3 has far beter games than 360.. unlesss you have a fetish for masculine space marines

 

[jpoon]

Microsoft's RROD's are easily worse than PSN being down. I'd take the PSN situation any day over having to be raged out on a Red ring.

 

[Rhiehn]

Blaming Sony for PSN being hacked is a bit like blaming a bank for being robbed.

 

[Monty McDougal]

my "pong" machine keeps freezing. ha ha ha ha just kidding

 

[Yoh3333]

Meh, i'll stick to my PS3.
I don't care about the breach. Took me 10 minutes tops to call in and get my card cancelled. No problems whatsoever.
As of actual problems: I still say Xbox have had it rough from the get-go. RRoD was horrible design but preety much fixed with the slim version. My brother also complained alot about the loud noices the old one made. When i tried it at his place i actually understood why he complained. But that was but a small issue.
As of games? Currently i would say PS3 is the winner here. This year seems to be a year where Sony brought their big guns out. Resistance 3 (not sure if it is coming in 2012 or 11) Uncharted 3 (Uncharted is a great series) Infamous 2 (Seems to be preety good, not a huge fan myself but hey, people like it) Motorstorm Apocalypse and the rest of the games that have allready come out: Little big planet 2 (likeing it quite abit) Killzone 3 (A decent shooter, never liked it though) Yakuza 4 and ofcourse SOCOM4.
That's a preety good lineup. I've failed to see the Xbox lineup as much since i dislike their series (Gears of War is kinda dull... I would LOVE to have Halo. Played it a couple of times and i love it)

So yea, as of online people have allready discussed how MS fails to deliver to people with free membership.

So i will stay with my PS3 and PSN+ till the next gen comes out. Then i'll see what will happen.

 

[IamSofaKingRaw]

Poll didn't work
OP: I guess Playstation has the worst problem i.e. only having a couple of good games

You must be joking....

The PS3 has a free online service on par with XBL.

Having used both pretty much equally, I cannot disagree more.

PS3 does not have player reviews so you can say "this guy is being a team killing douchebag, I don't want to play with him again.

PS3 does not have a report form in the console so you can report people who are obviously cheating in games, you have to go to their online form that's hidden in the bowels of the Playstation support pages (note: they do have a form you can use if someone sends you a bad message, but it only works if someone sends you a message and it's only for reporting the contents of the messages. you can't trick a cheater into sending you a message and then report them for cheating from three).

PS3 does not have cross game or party chat so you can talk with your friends regardless of what you are playing.

PS3 does not automatically sync your trophies. You have to do it manually, and then the system forces you to sit through the 30 second or more sync process at times when you don't need to sync because you have no new trophies. I say it forces you because if you cancel it, it won't let you do whatever it was you wanted to do.

Playstation Network is NOT on par with Xbox Live, it's missing too many features that should have been included at launch.

And no, my goal here isn't to be negative. Like I said, I use both. And I'd love Sony to step things up. But they don't, and PSN keeps jogging a mile or two behind Xbox Live. It's quite disappointing to the point where I can't get multiplatform games I plan to play online for PS3 anymore. Not after trying to play Red Dead Redemption online over PSN... No. The "avoid player" feature is the bare minimum that Sony needs to add before I'll even think about getting any multiplatform title with multiplayer for PS3 again.

Well PSn has party chat (only text though) that can be used with members in different games. It also has a video chat feature with the PSEye but no one uses that.

The trophy thing I don't get what you mean by syncing tropies. When does that occur?

Most games have a report function ingame to rport cheaters. Other than that you just go on PS.com and report them yourself. If you want to report thtem that bad, yu have to go though that trouble I guess.

Essenially, cross game voice chat and trophy syncing are why PSN is not on par with XBL.....

Sure.

 

[Joshica Huracane]

Poll didn't work
OP: I guess Playstation has the worst problem i.e. only having a couple of good games

To be fair, theres only... 4 or 5 franchises That I can think of (and that are any good at all, in my mind) that X-Box has exclusive rights to.. And while they're good, I think I'd rather go with PS3 exclusives.

OT: I think the PSN problem is big, but hardware issues with the 360 outweigh it. The wii just doesn't have what I personally am looking for (but clearly has no big problems seeing as its a machine that prints money).

 

[Trolldor]

But then there is this:

Regardless of what the PS3 owners have recently gone through, the Xbox 360 is still worse. Games become literally unplayable if the DLC for them is downloaded and the console is offline

That's wrong.

So long as you're on the console you originally purchased the DLC on, all XBL content works offline. There's a license transfer tool available online if you change consoles.

Bullshit, I say. Bullshit.

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.

If you've sent it in for repairs, or moved the HD from one Xbox to another, then you will need to use the transfer license tool. I did it and got all my DLC offline back.

 

[Thundero13]

Poll didn't work
OP: I guess Playstation has the worst problem i.e. only having a couple of good games

To be fair, theres only... 4 or 5 franchises That I can think of (and that are any good at all, in my mind) that X-Box has exclusive rights to.. And while they're good, I think I'd rather go with PS3 exclusives.

OT: I think the PSN problem is big, but hardware issues with the 360 outweigh it. The wii just doesn't have what I personally am looking for (but clearly has no big problems seeing as its a machine that prints money).

Tis all just in my opinion, I like the Wii best and the others only have a couple of games that I like ie Portal/ 2, LBP, R&C, Halo (sort of)

 

[TOTL_UNIALAYSHUN]

360 DEFINITELY has worse problems. RRoD, obviously, but just imagine if the Microsoft servers got hacked. How much worse would it be than Sony's? Especially since millions and millions of users PAY monthly. I'd much rather just play offline than buy a new console.

Um, I would believe that Microsoft has more security than that. The PSN was free, they couldn't afford as good of a security.

Oh of course, I know it wouldn't happen, but I was just saying it as a "What if?" scenario.