Had a run in with local game shop today (360 vs PS3)

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I went into my local branch of Insane Games today to enquire about a Wii. Outlook is good and there's a good chance that I'd have one before Christmas. Good I thought.

I said about how I have a 360 and this should contrast the playing style nicely, and the person I was speaking to said "Don't say that too loudly" jokingly. His collegue was/is a PS3 fanboy in the extreme. He basically went on ranting to me about how everything that I could say about the 360 would be better on the PS3. I thought my only piece of ammo to that statement would be the onilne service. But apparently the PS3 online service has been play tested against Live and is better. I'm still not believing that but there ya go. Then I said "What about the cross platform compatibility? With 360 to PC?". Now I know this isn't necessarily a good thing, in fact I see it to be bad, but I needed ammo. He said "The Dreamcast had it so Sony could develop it in an instant" or something along those lines. In my head I thought, two things to say to that. One, I could swear I rememebred seeing something like "Microsoft Windows CE" or something on the side of my Dreamcast.. But more importantly, I'm sure Microsoft would never ever allow Sony to develop some kind of cross platform link with Windows.. But apparently the PS3 uses Linux so it wouldn't need to. :confused: I said..
"Well I'll be happy with my 360 and Wii for less than the PS3" and he said...
"That's ok because the PS3 is better than both of them put together."
I was a bit like.. Woah you're being patronising as hell to me here and I'm the customer. So I'm right. He actually said to me, "I've had 30years experience in this field and I know what to expect from the developers and believe it or not... You don't." I was appalled at being spoken to in that manor but there ya go. I mentioned that Ridge Racer PS3 vs 360 shot and said that the 360 version looked better. He replid with something along the lines of "No it doesn't, the PS3 version has better graphics, more levels, more cars, better game." He also mentioned about the PS3 having a built in "HDDVD player". I was quite happy about this because he threw his Blu-ray ammo out the window there, but he said "The PS3 has a HDDVD player built in which is £1000 on it's own anyway." OcUK sell one for £400? :confused:

In all honesty I don't know a hell of a lot about the PS3. But I must say I was appalled at the manner in which I was spoken to.

But yeah, could anyone shed some light on how much of that is correct etc?

Cheers,
Naffa
 
Well it doesnt have a HD-DVD because it has a Blu-Ray drive, being that its a major drive behind the PS3 i'd be inclined to think this man is infact a ****.

:)
 
in all honesty, the guy sounds like a proper **** and he's right up sony's arse.

the PS3 is only a shade more powerfull than the 360 and that's all there is to say about the 2 consoles.

people should chose the one which has the games they want to play.
 
Also, the 360 has been out for a year rendering it 'old tech' in some peoples eyes. I believe that the 360 will keep up with the PS3 no problem, but for a console that's a year later I'd expect the difference we see with a 7800GTX to 8800GTX. Massive!! :D
 
Tony Hawk Project 8. PS3 online anyone? Oh that's right - nonexistant.
COD3 reportedly better on 360? Interesting.

And of course...

Gears. Nuff said.




BTW - I'm not anti-PS3, and will likely end up with both, just like current gen. But you did ask for ammo! :)


Edit - I was given some bum info about Resistance.
 
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With the 360 being made by Microsoft the same creaters of Windows as we all know I'm guessing the 360 has it's own version of Windows meaning any company that's been making PC games for years is already going to have a great deal of exp in making games for such a platform. Wouldn't this aid games in being coded very well and so on there for run very smooth on the console. Also with that in mind wouldn't that make many games on the XBox 360 apear to run smoother than say the same game made on the PS3 even though there may be slightly less muscule under the Xbox 360s shell.

I remeber the Dreamcast with Dead Or Alive 2 and how so many people said how much better the game looked and ran on the Dreamcast. This could be due to the Dreamcast being a lot easier to creat games for as the Dreamcast also had a version of Windows CE.

This is just me and my brain ticking over so shot me down in flames if I don't know what the heck I'm talking about.
 
Just looked up Microsoft XNA wikipedia and it makes a lot more sense now. In other worlds instead of coming out with all that I did on my last post I could have just put.

XNA end of story. :D
 
McDaniel said:
Well it doesnt have a HD-DVD because it has a Blu-Ray drive, being that its a major drive behind the PS3 i'd be inclined to think this man is infact a ****.

:)
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Tell him to have a look at the PS3 game reviews. Then compare the same 360 games if possible (Tony hawks 8) and to compare PS3 games to the likes of GoW. It doesn't matter if it is a 'second gen' game, it is out at the same time as the PS3 and in our case months before so it is directly comparable.

Seeing as games are the most important factor with a console, that should shut him up.
 
30 years experience and still does not know what the **** he is chatting about. Whilst the ps3 may or may not become a great console. He was chatting out of his arse.

Lets just say he was lucky you were his customer and not me ;)
 
Damn I wish some of you guys were there! :D

Oh yeah, he also said about how GoW was/is really really buggy and how Microsoft just released GoW now as buggy as it is to beat the PS3 launch.

And what do you make of him saying the PS3 online system will be better than Live? I personally think it will be awful in comparison to Live.
 
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