SK07 said:
Whats your opinion on the PS3 since you have one?
A brilliant machine with better build quality than the 360 and a lot of potential to be amazing. Sony are regularly releasing updates to impove capability within the machine and so far all its done is get better.
A fair range of good fun games, and to my opinion they run smoother on the PS3 (ive tried Virtua tennis, COD3 and R6:Vegas on both machines). The 360 is a bit more user friendly to use and set up, but if you know what your doing then you will encounter no problems.
The blu ray player is great, if you have a HDTV then you will notice the difference in quality, only problem being blu rays films are expensive to buy at present.
The controller does not have interchangable power packs, so you need to have the controller charged to play. The charging cable supplied with the PS3 is a tad short, but is easily extended with a USB cable extension. The battery hold for a fair while, a few hours more than the 360 at a guess, and charges a lot faster too at about 1 and a half hours to fully charge it.
The build quality of the console is spot on, the touch sensitive buttons are something you never really get sick of playing with and the drawless drive makes the ps3 feel like high quality product. Its a very very quiet machine, a lot more silent then a 360, but once you have the sound on you dont notice that much anyways.
Online is decent, but could be vastly improved, and i have no doubt in my mind sony will improve the console to be brilliant online. Download speeds are spot on, my line maxes out when downloading off the PS store. A lot of games on the PS3 i believe use sony as a host for a server, unlike xbox live where you host it via your console, which means that you get considerably less lag on a lot of games.
Having use of the internet browser is brilliant, its definately an excellent addition to the PS3s capabilities. I only really use it for basic browsing and running internet line tests, but its certainly a good feature to have.
Extras. You into racing games? Microsoft requires you to use a wheel designed for the 360, whereas the PS3 doesnt, i plugged up my old logitech wheel on GT:HD and off i went, no drivers, no calibration, just tell it in the options your on a wheel and off you go.
Also, will you be looking to use a wireless connection? If so then you will need to buy a wireless adapter for your 360, which retail at around £59.99, however it comes as standard with the UKs PS3.
I do have some gripes however, mainly with sony being tight in what you get with the console. Your buying an expensive console, that is designed around HD, yet sony neglect to give you an HD cable, you get and RGB connection cable with the converter to take it to scart, you need to buy an HDMI/component cable seperately. Same with voice comms; the PS3 uses a bluetooth headset to chat, so sony decided not to give you one, instead you need to buy it seperately. However i believe Warhawk will have them in the box when you buy the game (dont hold me to that). Another thing is a lack of ethernet cable, with the 360 you get a nice long RJ45 cable for getting onto xbox live, with the PS3 you dont get a cable, i presume this is due to it being wireless, but its nice to have all the same.
Some games on the 360 may need to appear on more than one disk - whoopdeedoo.
Not its not whoopdedoo, and its not excusable IMO. These are 'next gen' consoles. Id expect to have to switch disks on a PS2/dreamcast, but not on a 360 or PS3. I believe it was Driver 2 that used 2 disks on the PS2, and it was a graet annoyance every time you drove to the other half of the map to have to change disks.
But yeah the PS3 seems to get them after the 360.
