Posted on July 25, 2008 - by Jordan H
Two Months Later
So, it’s exactly two months tomorrow since I bought my Xbox 360, and contrary to Hilly Billy’s statements, I’ve had a great time with the Xbox 360 and never looked back. So far I’ve got GTA IV (story completed, working on 100%), Halo 3 (working on that one) and Battlefield: Bad Company (someway through story, playing multiplayer loads though).
Talking to PS3 owners, they’re still having awful problems getting online in a lot of games. Notably, the other day PS3 released (and re-released) their 2.4 firmware update and 2 years of work didn’t really show. In my opinion, the in-game XMB wasn’t well thought through - people don’t want to view their photos whilst playing a game, they just want to send their messages! Still no game invites on the PS3 either.
Now - back to Xbox. Microsoft have announced some HUGE changes to the Xbox interface and I think they look pretty cool. Yeah, maybe they copied off Nintendo a bit in the avatar design, but it’s still gonna be great to play for real prizes in 1vs100 and have eight-player parties before going into games.
I did play my PS3 today though, only for Burnout Paradise since I haven’t got that for Xbox 360 yet. Criterion have just released their Cagney update and I tried out lots of new features. It did take a few hours to download though.
Now, I’m going to sit here and wait until Hilly Billy leaves a comment, which I guess won’t be long 
>Jordan
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July 28, 2008
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You called moi?
Here comes a rolling flameball back at ya - ill quote and add my comments
“I’ve had a great time with the Xbox 360 and never looked back” - Good for you when my 360 RRoDed it was a waste of time
“they’re still having awful problems getting online in a lot of games” - Uhh what are you talking about?
“Notably, the other day PS3 released (and re-released) their 2.4 firmware update and 2 years of work didn’t really show” - They only started developing ingame xmb sometime in December after numerous users of the US PSforums asked for it so it is actually about 8 months of work and it is (probably) pretty lame because the PS3 has about 1/2 the RAM that the 360 has as Sony didnt really think of adding ingame XMB. They are soon to add youtube support and speed up the ingame features (like when the new store came out it was really slow for a month until another update came)
“people don’t want to view their photos whilst playing a game, they just want to send their messages!” - Well ou can ACTUALLY view your photos, only look at the thumbnails and the ingame messaging works perfectly except for a little slowdown
“Still no game invites on the PS3 either.” - 1/2 true, 1st party games have invites (motorstorm, resistance) and so do the following games off my head: Battlefield bad company, rainbow 6 vegas 1 + 2 (although its as messages), GT5: Prologue etc
“Microsoft have announced some HUGE changes to the Xbox interface and I think they look pretty cool. Yeah, maybe they copied off Nintendo a bit in the avatar design, but it’s still gonna be great to play for real prizes in 1vs100 and have eight-player parties before going into games.” - The only smart idea I saw was the inclusion of netflix and 8 player parties, other then that it is all copied and is taking the vista route - I prefer the old “blade” style of the system and the Mii “idea” is AWFUL, an extremely blatant copy. The real prizes in games is also a bad idea as it will only be the top of the top and will just go down in the bad books (those who loved Counter Strike Source will know what I mean…)
Im currently getting ready for something the 360 will never have - multiplayer with OVER 16 vs 16 people online which is technically impossible on 360 and the lag would be immense on peer 2 peer - roll on resistance 2 and M.A.G thanks to Sony dedicated servers!
The console war rages on indeed
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July 28, 2008
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Hilly Billy, time to answer to your comments
“[Online troubles] Uhh what are you talking about?” - Talking to some members of the clan, nobody can connect in CoD4 and even B:BC is messing up.
By game invites, I mean across games, so if I’m playing on Bad Company and someone wants me to play in their GTA game, I can just stick the disc in and join their game. That is something the PS3 doesnt have yet, and even when Home (eventually) comes out you will have to enter the Home environment before you can join a game.
Microsoft have also addressed the RROD problems recently and the newer consoles made are much less likely to get the problem. Also, when I was playing on my PS3, I met a few people whos hard drives became corrupt and they had to send their PS3s back to Sony. They lost all their data.
The console war continues
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“”“[Online troubles] Uhh what are you talking about?” - Talking to some members of the clan, nobody can connect in CoD4 and even B:BC is messing up.”" - Havent heard anything yet on cod4 messing up, my clan hasnt said anything about that but indeed B:BC did mess up for a whole day but that problem was quickly fixed
“By game invites, I mean across games, so if I’m playing on Bad Company and someone wants me to play in their GTA game, I can just stick the disc in and join their game. That is something the PS3 doesnt have yet, and even when Home (eventually) comes out you will have to enter the Home environment before you can join a game.” - Meh IMO its not too much needed but it is still a welcomed feature, I heard somewhere that when home releases an update may be rolled out for a “mini” home too which is viewed from XMB so maybe then… Who knows…
“Microsoft have also addressed the RROD problems recently and the newer consoles made are much less likely to get the problem. Also, when I was playing on my PS3, I met a few people whos hard drives became corrupt and they had to send their PS3s back to Sony. They lost all their data.” - The fact still remains that the RRoD (although now lowed from refurbished and redesigned consoles) is still in the region of 10-12% while the PS3 failure rate is around less than 4%, The only errors I have heard on PS3 are of the general dust on the disk reader and the extremely rare “Yellow Light Of Death” the hard drive error probably stems from turning the internet off while downloading crucial updates, the same can happen with 360
Like Hirai said in E3-
“Global PlayStation boss says first-party titles and Blu-Ray capacity set console apart from 360 and Wii
Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz Hirai believes that PS3’s “unrivalled” first-party product and Blu-Ray capabilities mean the console enjoys better exclusive content than either of its competitors’ machines.
Addressing the issue of Microsoft’s investment in ‘exclusive’ downloadable content for titles such as GTA IV – and speaking after the much-publicised deal that made Final Fantasy XIII (not XIII Versus) a 360 game – Hirai explained:
“On the exclusivity front – whether it’s downloadable or not – one of the unrivalled strengths we have, and we’ve proven this time and time again, is the power of our internal worldwide studios. Our first-party product is obviously platform exclusive and is the best out there.
“We’ve talked about a raft of great titles, whether that’s Little Big Planet, Resistance 2, SoCom, God Of War 3, Killzone 2, MaG, Motorstorm: Pacific Rift.
“Secondly, if we talk about Blu-Ray, there’s a lot of capacity there. Our discussion with a lot of the publishers is about how the PS3 version of a game has the capacity to exclusive things consumers will be interested in – interviews with the makers of the game, documentary on the franchise or ‘making of…’ footage.
“That’s as well as additional weapons, levels, tools and characters. Those things very much differentiate our offerings over and above other versions of the same game.””
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Hilly Billy, see http://tinyurl.com/ps3epicfail
Oh and btw, I’ve never bought a Blu-ray dvd and I probably won’t for a while. Neither did I ever use the PS3 to browse the internet or play music. I have a computer and iPod for that. Same with photos. I have a console for playing games on, not doing everything else too!
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“Hilly Billy, see http://tinyurl.com/ps3epicfail” - What is that? 1 forum post from gamespot with no screenshot? JUST one? I dare you to go on the 360 forums and type in “RRoD” and see the 50+pages full of complaints, lots recent :D, I would hardly call it an “epic fail” just a rare fail, RRoD is epic
“Oh and btw, I’ve never bought a Blu-ray dvd and I probably won’t for a while. Neither did I ever use the PS3 to browse the internet or play music. I have a computer and iPod for that. Same with photos. I have a console for playing games on, not doing everything else too!” - The boundries between gaming and other activities is thinning, its better to have all than one, then I dont have to rummage around for everything at once and your bluray argument is coming from just you, tonnes of people love bluray and its growing steadily, with sales increased by 300% in July. Unlike 360s laughable mess with the HD-DVD
Time is wearing thin for the 360