What should i buy?

msghomemaintenancemine do charge up whilst im playing, they dont have them stupid insert AA battery packs they have a proper battery like in a mobile phone
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never heard of 360 controllers with built in batteries.

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http://www.ixbt.com/consoles/images/info_xbox360/xbox360rbp.jpg
never have to remove it, just plug the lead in to your controller and console for it to charge

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Oh right, the plug and play kits. I thought you meant your controllers had built in batteries! You do have to buy those packs separately though.

handheld: DS
console: Wii & PC

gaynorvaderHow do you work out that blu ray doesn't exist exactly? :o

Oh no, Blu Ray exists but you don't need to buy an "Next Gen Disk Drive". There's no such thing for the 360. And you don't really need a BluRay player contrary to what most people say. Some people can't tell the difference between 1080p upscaled and 1080p native. So what's the point for a Bluray player when you can buy a DVD player that upscales? Combined with the fact that Blurays are about 10 dollars more expensive than DVDs. As I said, getting a BluRay player while you have an SDTV is kinda useless.

Actually according to this article there are 130 PS3 exclusives. (At least, that's what I counted, I could be out by a few)

Ooof, I knew I should have counted the PS3 games.

I'm not sure about this, I personally prefer the PSN community as there are less kids screaming in your ear and there are always a lot of people online, just not all have mics. I also really like home. The XBLA is definitely plus points for the 360, but you do have to pay (through the nose I might add) to play online with the 360, which is a bit disgraceful.

Eventually down the road, PSN on PS3 games are going to shut down, before Xbox Live. Why? Developers/publishers have to host their own servers and content, this means that eventually the publisher or dev will say "This costs too much to warrant the number of people who play/download this game SHUT DOWN". This also means that download speed and lag varies from game to game. Borderlands is huge for lag online for me on the PS3, while the 360 or PC version won't lag for me. (Yes I've tried all three versions, the PS3 has huge huge voice lag, while the PC doesn't and the 360 has very little). Granted I pirated the PC version, tried the 360 version a my friend's house who has the same internet connection as me and I own the PS3 version.Meanwhile on Xbox Live I'd prefer to have everyone having mics, considering games like MAG or Battlefield 2, for games that require communication, you won't get a hell of a lot. I'd rather be in a town of annoying retards who say the n word all the time over a ghost town with a few live people.Eww, Home. That community is about 10 times worse than Xbox Live, minus the n words. If you make a woman avatar, expect 20 men avatars to flock. Regardless of community, it's going to have good and bad people, it's like this anywhere. Oh yes, don't forget party/private chat, probably the best feature on XBL that the PSN doesn't have.Through the nose? wat? Never heard that expression. 60 dollars a YEAR (in contrast to say, WoW, which is 15 dollars a month, for.. one game), isn't a lot of money at all. It's justified considering the amount of content on the marketplace, it's latency, it's download speeds and it's deal of the week crap. Along with that you can download 360 games, some Xbox games and a bunch of XBLA games. On top of that you have the indie games, which depending on which one you choose, can be really good, or terrible (comes with the community I suppose). Although there's always gems like Miner Dig Deep. Awesome game. There's Netflix that doesn't require a disc if you're in the US, there's a video marketplace, you can download songs if you choose not to pirate them etc.Along with that, Microsoft seems to have a ridiculous idea that timed exclusive content will sell more consoles. GTA IV's episodes came out on the 360 first and still hasn't been released on the PS3 (I think it comes out next month though, it got delayed), Fallout 3's DLC came out before, and now MW2's DLC is coming out later on the PS3.

Frankly if you have an SD TV I wouldn't recommend getting either then PS3 or the 360 as a lot of games have text which is very difficult to read on SD TVs. The Purchase of a DVI->HDMI adapter can help alleviate this problem by allowing you attach your console to a monitor.

The only games I've heard of this problem are Dead Rising, Mass Effect 2 and prepatched Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts. Oh yeah, the PS3 looks like absolute trash when on an SDTV, like, it looks noticeably worse than having it just HD.

Depends on where you live, where I live there is a 1 year (or perhaps it's 2 years now, I forget) mandatory warranty on all electronics. But I do agree that the 360's warranty can be a nice deal, I still prefer the reliability of the PS3 over that though. Chances are far more likely that you'll break your PS3 through accident anyway. Here's how.

But the reliability with the PS3 is a double edged sword. Although I expect my Xbox to break eventually, I don't expect my PS3 to break. Once it does, RAAAAGE. And I have to ship it and pay for repairs? Pffft. I'll either buy another PS3 or just not get one at all. Although it's not a very good point, it's the way I see it.Again as I said, if you have an HDTV, I recommend you get a PS3 since it's BluRay functionality. It's straight out of the box value. While the Xbox doesn't have that. Although if you have an SDTV, weight out the options.

@Natewlie: I agree with some of what you're saying, and disagree with some other things. But neither of us are going to budge the other on those things as they are very opinion-related. I enjoyed the discussion though. ciao

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Indeed, gg.

someone who makes sense

lampslammerPS3- For 299$ you get a blue-ray player (about 250$ for one), a dvd player, a ps1, a good browser(very compatible), music player, and a rechargeable controller (saves money. no AA's, or need to buy rechargeables.)and better built. How many PS3 owners do you know had to send it in to sony? I'll bet everyone here knows someone who has needed to send their x-box in. Another thing i've noticed is that ps3 discs stay in better condition. Most of my games are used and there still immaculate. Not the same story with my friends x-box games. A few of em have the ring on it, and they have a lot more little scratches etc.. and I'm not just talkin out of my ass. Next time at gamestop compare used games from both. I think it's because ps3 has the drive in the front instead of the tray.and of course Metal Gear Solid 4, and God of War 3.