Which is better and why?

[dukedogsmom]

I am going to try and get a gaming system in January. I'm almost positive it will be a Playstation. But, I was wondering which is better, the Playstation or the Xbox. And why do you think one is better over the other. That will help me out in which system to buy.

[slleipnir]

Better gaming seletion as far as I know....Although, they're coming out with a PS3 sometime.....it's suppose to be REALLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYY awesome!!! Did you ever see how in some PS games they have short little "videos" in the game that are really awesome graphics??? PS3's GAMEPLAY is suppose to be that quality!!!

Sorry that didn't make sense....I have a PS2....good games You should get Harvest Moon if you get it...or Katamari Damacy lol

[PJ's Mom]

My son has an Xbox and absolutely loves it. He also has a Gamecube and hasn't touched the thing in a year.

[Lexi_Lover]

I have a PS2, but the only ones they come out with now are PS2 slim and soon PS3...I personally love teh PS2, I have played GameCube and X-Box...but I find nothing measures up. It has a wide variety of games, easy controls and lots of features too...DVD, music and something else...(I forget) not to mention the wonderful dog and pet games out there...Harvest Moon(farm keeping), Dog's Life(rescuing dog's being snatched up), etc..

[Lobodeb]

My hubby has a PS2 and likes it. However, our neice's sons have both the PS2 and xBox. They claim (4 boys ages 6-12) claim the xbox is better. It supposedly has better graphics.

[Logan]

We don't have any in this house, and I sort of like it that way. Sorry I don't have any input. I know my stepson has a system at his mom's house, a PS2, I think, but I'm not even sure about that.

[The Cat Factory]

Out of the two, I like Xbox better. I think that it has better games. Also, the graphics are alot better. I have both, and I haven't played PS2 for a really long time. I also have Gamecube, and it is my favorite

[katienoonan]

Personally my husband and I both prefer the xbox. We had several ps2's and the five(we had three waranteed,the were replaced free of charge)we had all broke down within several months. Hubby loves his video games so this time around we decided to go with the xbox. We have had it about a month and have had ZERO problems with it. Also, I hear the ps3 is coming out in early 2007 now because the several they had set fire! I heard that from a Sony rep. Good luck with your decision and have fun with whichever you choose Also, you dont have to buy memory cards for the xbox to save games. You could play dvd's on it but it wears out the laser faster(on both systems) since it continually runs as in a game it doesn't spin the whole time.

[Vette]

Id say the XBOX 360. why? well look for yourself.


Xbox 360 System Performance Specifications

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
Two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total
VMX-128 vector unit per core; three total
128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance 9 billion dot product operations per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor 10 MB of embedded DRAM
48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines
48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines
Unified shader architecture

Polygon Performance 500 million triangles per second

Pixel Fill Rate 16 gigasamples per second fill rate using 4x MSAA

Shader Performance 48 billion shader operations per second

Memory 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM
700 MHz of DDR
Unified memory architecture

Memory Bandwidth 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
21.6 GB/s front-side bus

Overall System Floating-Point Performance 1 teraflop

Storage Detachable and upgradeable 20GB hard drive
12x dual-layer DVD-ROM
Memory Unit support starting at 64 MB

I/O Support for up to four wireless game controllers
Three USB 2.0 ports
Two memory unit slots

Optimized for Online Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features with broadband service, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, gamer profile for digital identity, and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies, or listening to music
Built-in Ethernet port
Wi-Fi ready: 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g
Video camera ready

Digital Media Support Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD • Ability to stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras and Windows XP-based PCs
Ability to rip music to the Xbox 360 hard drive
Custom playlists in every game
Built-in Media Center Extender for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Interactive, full-screen 3-D visualizers

High-Definition Game Support All games supported at 16:9, 720p, and 1080i, anti-aliasing
Standard-definition and high-definition video output supported

Audio Multi-channel surround sound output
Supports 48KHz 16-bit audio
320 independent decompression channels
32-bit audio processing
Over 256 audio channels

System Orientation Stands vertically or horizontally

Customizable Face Plates Interchangeable to personalize the console

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The PlayStations3 rather.. small list

CPU

Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS


the links where i got the information from

http://www.xbox.com/en-AU/xbox360/factsheet.htm

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/614/614682p1.html

and the graphics are better on the XBOX then the PlayStation2.

[Vette]

What you could do,, is look to see wich consoles has games that you are most interested in. instead of trying to compair which is better then the other.

you could have the best most powerful console in the world... but that doesnt mean the games are worth a crap that are relased for it.

i think most of the games come out on both consoles though. so.. good luck picking one.

[anna_66]

Definatly the xbox in Mark's opinion, and for all the reasons stated above

[finn's mom]

Most people that I know that have both like the Xbox better.

edited: from what i've noticed, they seem to like the graphics better...

[slleipnir]

I guess it all depends then...cause PS definatly has more gaming selection