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The xbox 360 is the most advanced gaming system on the market. The graphics are great but it has a cheap pricetag also. the xbox 360 has a good 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. PS3 games are all full price since it just launched.

This review must've been made as soon as the PS3 came out. Obviously, it's pretty unfair, considering the PS3 had just been released and it's not going to immediately have as many games as the 360. Anyone who hates the PS3 probably hasn't tried one before. The PS3 isn't just a console, it's a high end computer as well. It can even run Linux, and it makes a very powerful PC because it has 8 (count em, processors that are usable. My favorite part of the PS3 is free online play. I can log in anywhere with a PS3 by simply typing in my e-mail address and password. The 360 requires you to have your hard drive to log onto your account. The PS3 also plays on a 1080p TV. So people with monster TV's can't use a 360 without playing on 720p or 1080i (which will look all pixely depending on the screen size). The controller is nearly 0 pounds and has wireless dual-shock (the rumbling, like on the controller of the PS1 and 2). You can use bluetooth headsets with the PS3, which is great because I constantly have to adjust the 360 headset. And let's not forget that it can play HD Blu-ray movies for the avid moviegoer (the cheapest blu-ray player is like $350!)
Now, what does the 360 have? More games.

I find the PS3 easily worth the extra $100.

the ps3 is a great system. but its games arent as big of array as the 360's. the 360 has better online, games, and a bit lower pricetag, because u can get a core 360 for around 189 at gamestop