Thread: X-Box 360 Vs Playstation 3: What should I buy?

Quote: Originally Posted by Wesley Clark The PS3 plays Blu-ray DVDs, however the Xbox 360, when you use an HDMI cable can function as an upconverting DVD player. I haven't tried it but I have heard other users say upconverted DVDs on a 360 is roughly as good as a blu-ray This is wrong in many ways. 1. You can upconvert with the component cables. 2. Upconverting, despite many people's anecdotal evidence, isn't anywhere NEAR a...

How bout we wait for him to come back?

The idea that putting a $130 vidcard into a "fairly recent PC" turns it into some sort of magical gaming device is a fallacy. It turns it into whatever it was before plus a decent graphics card, which in and of itself, doesn't really let you play much you couldn't play before because you've still got less RAM than you should, a mediocre processor, and a power supply that might or might even be able to feed that...

uhm, the PC has over a decade of titles to choose from man. Take off those console goggles for a sec. And thanks to places like GOG.com a lot of the great classics are back and guaranteed to run on modern systems.

Quote: Originally Posted by Kinthalis uhm, the PC has over a decade of titles to choose from man. Take off those console goggles for a sec. Windows 98 is not Windows ME is not Windows XP is not Windows 7. Games designed for one will not always work in your new PC without a little bit of finagling. And if you count all those older PC games, you also have to count the Xbox library (which is compatible with the 360). Once again rendering the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Justin_Bailey Beefy , your endless number crunching make the fantasy football threads very fun. But the only way you can make the PC have a bigger games library than the Xbox 360 or PS3 (but especially the 360) is if you count all those cheesy match-3 puzzle games that are all over the Internet and every PC game released in the last ten years. Which is cheating just a bit. It wasn't my intention to hijack this...

Quote: Originally Posted by Munch No. Ah, thanks. Too bad, by the way.

Quote: Originally Posted by Munch the 360 doesn't use HDDVD - that was a separate peripheral you had to buy. The regular 360 works off of regular DVD media. Ignorance fought. Thanks!

Not that the OP even seems to still be here, but a PC is much different than a console. Console games just work, PC games often take some fiddling and configuring to get running. Personally I think a console is a better fit for the living room, especially if you have company and just want things to work.

I appreciate the civility between the Xbox and PS3 users. It might be the only place online in which that happens.