Which is better, Wii or PS3?

[Squeek]

Re: Which is better, Wii or PS3?

It's going to cost $480.

Where in the world do you get your numbers?

It's also a huge waste of money and a lot of gamers are pissed.

[beaner692]

Re: Which is better, Wii or PS3?

$480?! Jezus Crimedy, it better be really good "/ ..

[slipstrike0159]

Re: Which is better, Wii or PS3?

The Xbox 360 is releasing an Elite version which will be coloured black with 120GB Hard Drive and will only cost around $540. Pretty good compared to the $600 60GB Hard drive PS3.

Hah, sure. In any case, there is no reason to get it for that much memory when you can get it modded for much cheaper(assuming the guy i know that does modding does it for 360's too that is).

[beaner692]

Re: Which is better, Wii or PS3?

you never know though, im sure theres a BUNCH of people waiting on the edge of their seats for it.

For example, the PS3 was a s**t load of money, people still lined up early in the AM to get it

[tsugomaru]

Re: Which is better, Wii or PS3?

More hardrive space is not an instant win. 60 GB for the PS3 may seem like a lot, but when you start filling it with games that fill even the Blu-Ray's vast storage capacity, you aren't going to get very many games on there.

At least you have a variety of disc formats for the XBox 360 so you won't be filling your harddrive at 25 GB per game.

~Tsugomaru

[hi19hi19]

Re: Which is better, Wii or PS3?

I'd agree with Grandia... I played the wii for two hours at my friend's house. The novelty wore off after an hour and a half.

[Squeek]

Re: Which is better, Wii or PS3?

Consider playing more than one game.

Consoles generally see the release of hundreds of games in their lifetime. It's not a very good idea to rate a console based on your experience with one.

[Chromer]

Re: Which is better, Wii or PS3?

Not even going to touch this thread. -_-

[All_That_Chaz]

Re: Which is better, Wii or PS3?

Wii has the fun factor (a lot of which for an old fogie like me is that Virtual Console feature *SO COOL*)
PS3 won the graphics battle
360 will probably have the best game repertoire, but that's debatable, the Wii has some excellent stuff, such as the aforementioned virtual console.

[ap19]

Re: Which is better, Wii or PS3?

Wii=family fun/children's play
PS3=graphical realism/storyline play/RPG

[vvav]

Re: Which is better, Wii or PS3?

Wii has the fun factor (a lot of which for an old fogie like me is that Virtual Console feature *SO COOL*)
PS3 won the graphics battle
360 will probably have the best game repertoire, but that's debatable, the Wii has some excellent stuff, such as the aforementioned virtual console.

The funny thing is, the 360 actually outperforms the PS3 in graphics because the PS3 is incredibly hard to program on and the 360 has more advanced graphics while the PS3 is just brute force. More processing speed doesn't necessarily mean better graphics. If I can find it, I'll link the article where I read this later.

Edit: http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-348-1.htm

PS3 vs. XBOX 360

Being a video game developer (I develop for both, Playstation 3 and XBOX 360) people ask me almost daily which platform I think is better. These are my personal feelings, in no way does this reflect my employer.

Short answer: XBOX 360.

Long answer: Price, performance, visual quality, game selection and online support. I think the XBOX 360 wins in every category.

Price: This is obvious; the XBOX 360 core is only $299. The PS3 is around $499 for the 20GB version. It comes with a hard drive, but you don’t need a hard drive to enjoy a lot of great games on the 360 so I think it’s fair to compare both core systems.

Performance: On paper, the PS3 is more powerful. In reality, it’s quite inferior to the 360. Without getting into too many details, the three general-purpose CPU’s the xbox360 has are currently FAR easier to take advantage of than the SPU’s on the PS3. I suspect a few years down the road some high budget, first party PS3 exclusive titles will come out that really take advantage of the SPU’s and do things the XBOX 360 can’t, but I don’t think the console is worth buying based on this speculation (for some it will be though, we'll have to wait and see how these games turn out).



Graphics: The XBOX 360 is a clear winner. The GPU is more powerful. It has more powerful fillrate, and far more pixel and vertex processing horsepower. Part of the reason is their choice of memory, and architecture of pixel and vertex procesing. I can’t get into details but the same vertex shader will run much slower on the PS3 than the XBOX 360. The 360 also has a clever new way rendering high definition anti aliased back buffers. To accomplish the same effect on PS3 is prohibitively expensive. For this reason I think many games will have no choice but to run in non-HD resolutions on the PS3 version, use a lower quality anti aliasing technique, or do back buffer upscaling. The end result in all cases is going to be noticeably worse image quality.

Game Selection: The XBOX 360 has a huge head start here. 1 year is an eternity in gaming. Almost all multi-platform developers have made the XBOX 360 their primary platform due to timing of release-to-market, this means the games will look and perform better on the 360. The PS3 versions will be ports of the 360 versions. (The opposite was true for XBOX 1 vs. PS2). The XBOX 360 is also far faster to develop for due to better development tools (massively popular Visual Studio .NET vs. proprietary, buggy PS3 compiler and debugger), better documentation, and easier architecture (3 general purpose CPU’s vs. 8 specialized processors that require DMA). Timing has also caused all next-gen middleware developers to make XBOX 360 their primary platform, and they will ‘add ps3 support’ as needed. This support will probably be inferior to the XBOX 360’s due to manpower and more importantly, demand. It’s this catch-22 now that will continue to drive the 360 forward and hold PS3 back.

The other obvious point here is that right now the Xbox360 already has a very impressive line-up of titles on store shelves; the ps3 just launched, and has virtually nothing of interest. Also, many 360 games are already discounted ($25 for Fight Night 3 at CircuitCity). PS3 games are all full price since it just launched.



Live: Microsoft’s online support with XBOX1 was phenomenal. They built in-house experience, user base, facilities, $$ commitment from executive level (since it proved successful), and most importantly, feedback from 100,000s of XBOX Live subscribers. Playstation 2’s online support sucked. They are now playing catch-up, trying to emulate Xbox’s model. But they had their hands tied just trying to make the PS3 work, it was incredibly ambitious (blu-ray etc.). I haven’t seen it yet, but I seriously doubt the quality will be anywhere to the level of XBOX 360.

HD Content: The PS3 comes with one built in (blu-ray). The XBOX 360 offers HD-DVD as an add-on for $200. You probably don’t care about HD-DVD right now. But you will soon (The quality between DVD and HD is comparable to VHS vs DVD, if you have the right TV) so I suggest paying attention to the war that’s begun. There are two formats: HD-DVD and BLU-RAY. Basically if you rent a BLU-RAY DVD from Bockbuster, it won’t play in your XBOX 360 HD-DVD, and vice versa with the PS3. The implications of this format war would require another article on its own. But as far as the consoles are concerned, the XBOX 360 wins because the DVD player is a separate unit. Playing movies is very taxing on the DVD reader, and let’s face it. In 3 years when your PS3 DVD drive goes out due to playing lots of movies (PS2 was notoriously bad about this) you will have to go buy another PS3. With the 360, you’ll just chuck your HD-DVD player, and go buy another one at the store. In 3 years standalone units wlil probably only cost about $99-150. Another point for the XBOX 360, is that I don’t know who will win the format-war, so I would rather wait with purchase of a HD player. The PS3 doesn’t give you this option.

PS3 controversy: Shootings, Wallmart fights, $15,000 Ebay sales etc. My advice is ignore it. It will pass soon.

[kylehaas]

Re: Which is better, Wii or PS3?

Wii.
Not only is it fun,
but if you are looking for a game with story,
it doesnt matter how good or bad the graphics are...
(to a certain extent)

WII KICKS SONYS BUTT!
SONY SUCKS!

[GamerShadow]

Re: Which is better, Wii or PS3?

Xbox 360 is the winner IMO. Their online is fantastic, the graphics are just as good or better than current PS3 graphics, and it's considerably cheaper than the PS3.

I don't own a 360, I don't own a PS3, I own a Wii. The only non-Nintendo systems I had were PS1 and PS2, which were pretty good.

I love the Wii due to how cheap it is, and the controller, but the Xbox360 is going to win this one out.

[liltiger3]

Re: Which is better, Wii or PS3?

In my opinion, the Wii and XBOX 360 rule. The PS3 may have good graphics but most of its games are no good.

[crazymagicician000]

Re: Which is better, Wii or PS3?

Wii