Should I get a Xbox 360 or PS3?

[mmm-five]

Steve_Evil said:

A PC will do video streaming to the 360, provided you have XP Media Center edition, the Media Center versions of Vista will also do it when they arrive. It's the only reason I blagged a copy of MCE, will only support certain video types but you can get round this with a bit of video conversion software.

Sorry, meant to say neither Connect360 or Windows Media CONNECT will do video, rather than Windows Media CENTRE.

[tycho]

Windows Media connect will stream audio and pictures, Media Center will do video as well. the 360 actually gives a better looking interface than a dedicated Media Center Pc as it renders it in high def if your tv supports it. Also, the 360 is the only certified Vista Media Center Extender at the moment.

Apparently Vista has Media Center functionality with all versions of the software.

I have my 360 connected via cat5 and it runs perfectly. I hve a tv tuner and can use the 360 like a Sky + box and timeshift, record and pause live tv etc.

[thekirbyfake]

fidgits said:

well i got one - thus far impressed (except for fan noise)

The fan noise during game play is ridiculously loud.

I thought mine was faulty but a quick Google showed "They all do that, Sir"

[fidgits]

has anyone else's 360 seemed to suffer from an awful lot of crashes?

I'm averaging one every 2 days - and i dont play it that much!

(my PS2 crashed twice in 5 years!)

[robdickinson]

The thing is realy sensitive to heat, make sure theres decent air flow around the PSU and the xbox itself.

Some have poorly applied heatsink past on the chips inside, usualy resulting in the red light ring of death.

[scorp]

fidgits said:

has anyone else's 360 seemed to suffer from an awful lot of crashes?

I'm averaging one every 2 days - and i dont play it that much!

(my PS2 crashed twice in 5 years!)

Depends what you play, Oblivion crashes every couple of hours of play for me. As games get more complicated its more common to see crashes like this. GTA on the PS2 crashed often compared to the average PS2 game too.

[robdickinson]

I've played 100+ hours on oblivion, crashed twice, due to heat as I had the transformer in a poor location, its a relativly new xbox tho. Remember to clear your oblivion cache from time to time.

[fidgits]

how do you clear the cache?

[robdickinson]

Hold 'A' down when the game starts booting, this is only for oblicion, and only realy if it starts taking a long time to enter cities/buildings etc.

[Furyous]

tycho said:

I have my 360 connected via cat5 and it runs perfectly. I hve a tv tuner and can use the 360 like a Sky + box and timeshift, record and pause live tv etc.

Please tell me more.... my ps2 is on its last legs, as is my sky box, I would dealry like to hace sky + capability, but with sky's customer uncare dept, dont want to buy one.

A 360 that games and does sky+ type things sounds very interesting.....

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[robdickinson]

I think you'd need a PC with XP windows Media center + a digital/sky tuner and a large HDD to acomplish this, the 360 just acts as a portal/extender ontop of the PC.

Coments have been made that the PS3 will be a media center of its own. Well without a tuner or video in , and only a 60gig harddrive its not going to do that, especialy when looking at HD material.

[:J:]

Sony's Phil Harrison took the stage at the European Game Developer's Conference in the fall of 2005 and talked critically about Microsoft's plan to release two retail versions of the Xbox 360?

He said :

"Are there two versions of the Xbox 360 that people want to buy? I don't know," said Harrison. "I look at those formats. I think it just confuses the audience. They don't know which one to buy, developers don't know which one to create for, and retailers don't know which one to stock...So I think we wouldn't take that strategy. We wouldn't create confusion."

So off the back of this, I presume there will only be one version of PS3 released :lol:

If you buy the core 360, you can upgrade over time to a full system with all the features of a premium. Well, at least Sony will be the same...............ooops, nope, if you buy the basic PS3, you cannot and will not be able to have all the features of a full system. Basically, if you want all the features the PS3 has to offer, you have to pay full whack for it from the off

Also been reading a few reviews of Blu-Ray vs HD and so far HD seems to be winning

I hope Sony falls on it's face tbh and the reasons for this are all the comments they make about the Xbox, they seem to think they are superior in every way and it is beggining to do my head in. The Sony Fanboys don't help the situation, how stupid do you have to be to start slating 360 and saying PS3 is better when the thing doesn't exist yet ?? They laugh at the fact the 360 crashes from time to time (cause my PC never does that ) and yet they have NEVER seen a PS3 working due to the delay of the launch. Why was it delayed.......cause the PS3 kept crashing and had really bad overheating issues, what irony eh !!

See pic of new PS3 below :

[BigAlinEmbra]

Sounds like this place is awash with people from the xbox side of the fence!
Price wise personally I don't reckon there is much in it. The HD-DVD add on for the xbox will take it very close to the PS3, but as has been stated you've got the added advantage of being able to stagger the cost.

Think it then comes down to the games imo. If you really want PGR and or Halo then you'll only kick yourself if you buy a PS3.

I think any meaningful comparison of capabilities is impossible just now, given that nobody has really seen/used the PS3 yet. I think it would probably be fairly foolish to imagine that a machine coming out a year on from the 360 will be noticeably technically inferior though.

My strategy is this....
Just bought myself a PSP, which I absolutely love!
I'm going to whack a deposit down on a PS3 then flog it for the silly early prices you see on ebay. Early machines are known to be the most problematic so I wouldn't recommend getting one for yourself. 360's are probably starting to reach the stage where the bugs are ironed out, so if you have to have a machine very soon get a 360.
Personally I'll use my profits from the ebay scam to pay for my holiday next year, and hopefully have a reserve to get a later model PS3.