PS3 or Xbox 360? Help me work out what to get for xmas!

both are good both are bad if you look at and it depends on what you are looking for eg ps3 not that loud 360 is online play works better on 360 but you have to pay £3.33 a week to use it ps3 free ( but iv had many problems with it mostly headset f**king up on me ). the ps3 has only a had full of games that i would class as must haves the 360 has loads. the ps3 has blue ray the 360 you got to spend £100 for the hddvd player. and last of all and its a bit of a mix as dashboard on 360 is easy bar the fact that its advertisements riden the ps3 is nothing new it the same as the psp which i hate but has no advertisements in it which i like

Now that I am finally in possession of both I can say with much greater authority (though it never stopped me before) 360 is the way to go. If you only have one console it must be the xbox. I'm enjoying the PS3 but for every good there are just as many bads to it. For instance, Drakes seems like a good game form the demo but it just didn't wow me like it did some people out there. I really felt like i was playing a half assed version of Gears with less precise shooting and even less realism. At least when my heavily armored marine takes 50 rounds I can sort of believe it when he shrugs it off. When a dude in q t-shirt takes out 20 ak packing trained fighters with whatever he finds laying around, it just seems silly. This guy isn't even Indiana Jones cool :/

Ratchet also looks like a ton of fun but the fact of the matter is I have a Wii so no amount of pretty could standard issue paltforming action is going to tear me away form the majesty that is Galaxy. Not to mention I just enjoying playing portal on the 360 more than I did that R&C demo. I put it on my wish list, but with the piles of fantastic games already out there I dunno if I'll ever get time to play it.

As for Motor storm, it seems like fun but for all the hype surrounding it when it came out now that I've gotten a chance to play it for a while it feels painfully average. The riders are all stiff and unrealistic and remind me of the little plastic men attached to radio control motor cycles. The game play is fun but it's not different enough from every other racer over the years to really make me care. The new sega rally has track deformation that really makes a difference. MS couldn't even seem to manage that. And don't even get me stated on the god damned vehicle select menu. literally 10-15 seconds to switch between cars!? It doesn't take that long to load and entire level and 12 vehicles on the track!? They just now patched it to select vehicles in an old fashioned click on a picture of it menu which just feels archaic, much like the PSN store. Speaking of that, does anyone else feel like that wondered onto a website circa 1996 when they try and download anything on the PS3? And while on that subject how much fun is it to spend 5 hours downloading a 1 gig demo on the ps3 (when it takes me 30-60 min for the same on live!) only to then watch this amazing piece of the future spend 2 minutes installing the demo! "installing?" are you serious?

Hell I downloaded the folding at home thing (60 min for a 50 mg file) and then installed it (2-3 min) and then was immediately prompted to downloaded a newer version! Cause I couldn't have just gotten that to begin with?! I can't even use it to fight cancer with out wanting to kick the thing. It seems for every good idea sony has they find 3 ways to f**k it up. I desperately want to like the thing ( I did pay $500 for it) but so far it's spent most of its time running the ps2 version of singstar.

Also I have to wonder, why is it I never heard of the "installation" issues with the demos before? IS it that this really doesn't bother anyone else or is it because Sony fans aren't about to go make a point of the systems failing if they can help it. Maybe I'm being to critical but waiting a good minute or longer for a progress bar to pop up and tell me it's 0% done just drives me up a wall.

Unless MGS4 is really the second coming of video game Christ (master chief and or Mario being the first? 0_o) I don't know that it will ever be more than a ps2 up scaler for me. There was a good week there when I could use it to stream divx but now that I can do that on the xbox as well along with the media center features why would I bother switching to it?

Am I a fan boy? Kind of, but I also own all three consoles and can separate fact from feeling when necessary. The problem with the PS3 is that it's an amazing piece of hardware with terrible software. The 360 is a decent piece of hard ware with the best software MS has ever made running it. And while you may think MS makes nothing but garbage software keep in mind they do have some of the best programmers in the world working for them. They just restrict them with windows because of the ridiculous legacy support. After spending so much time with the 360 I'm convinced MS could make an absolutely spectacular OS if they would allow them selfs a full hardware break at some point.

There I go rambling again... looking forward to this discussion continuing :)
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Sorry Im late to the game I know but I just have to reply to your comment!

That is single handedly the best and most honest description of the PS3. I am in your exact position and couldnt agree more. The PS3 is a superb piece of kit severly let down by its software. For me it is 95% used as a movie player. What happened to the good old days of just put the game in, flick a switch and it runs... installing games and demos is for the PC.