Analysts Pick Sony PS3 to Win Current Console War

[Marcus Yam]

PlayStation 3 to be long-term winner, says experts. And if not, it'll still play your Blu-rays.

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[gekko668]

Well the PS3 only does everything.

 

[Parsian]

i dont see how they came to this conclusion...

The biggest title, the over-hyped IW's byproduct, has sold more on xbox360... and yet the two systems are very comparable. isnt that an indicative that the xbox360 consoles are more abundant?

if the blue ray is the main variable underlying this projection, well what about the fact that the cost of stand alone blue ray players are going down?

 

[husker]

[citation][nom]Parsian[/nom]i dont see how they came to this conclusion... [/citation]

Because they are looking 3 to 5 years down the road. The xbox360 was first to market and kicks butt now, but it will look long in the tooth when the ps3 is hitting its full stride.

 

[hakesterman]

This was a given, it wasn't a matter of if, but a matter of When. The PS3 is far superior to all the
other consoles. If it doesn't play Bluray it's garbage, once you have Bluray you don't care about anything else. The Controller on the PS3 is hands down better too!

 

[techguy911]

[citation][nom]Parsian[/nom]i dont see how they came to this conclusion... [/citation]

If you know anything about hardware the ps3 potential is beyond the xbox360, most games use 1/4 of the power it has at it's disposal.

If the 360 had better hardware then why are they not used for folding@home?, why is the military not buying 360's? and why do largest rings of crackers use many networked ps3's to crack SSL?.

The bluray is only icing on the cake, the bluray is not just for movies but games having more storage on one disk means more content and last of all if you say you can't see the diff between a dvd movie and bluray you need your eyes checked.

 

[Parsian]

on a related note, the M$ has posted job for motherboard design for XBOX team:

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=7339&mp=1

 

[False_Dmitry_II]

[citation][nom]husker[/nom]Because they are looking 3 to 5 years down the road. The xbox360 was first to market and kicks butt now, but it will look long in the tooth when the ps3 is hitting its full stride.[/citation]

The 360 has 512 MB of RAM to be used however. The PS3 has 256 MB on CPU, and another on the GPU. The PS3 does have more CPU power, but it is a good near infinitely harder to actually use it. All of this makes them both effectively similar as far as that goes. (if you're making comments on their relative abilities)

The xbox 360 has been annouced to stick around well after the next console comes out. If you were referring to how people are still buying PS2's and assuming that the PS3 will sick around relatively as long comparing the original xbox and the PS2.

 

[SneakySnake]

Can't say I disagree.

I'm an avid PC gamer, and only bought a PS3 for the exclusives and Blu-Ray, but it is quite the console. Anyone who hasn't played the MGS series needs to, it's hands down the best gaming I've ever done. Owning a 360 and a gaming PC doesn't make much sense, cuz pretty much the only game that the 360 has that the PC doesn't is Halo.

 

[tayb]

They've been saying this for over four years now. Yawn. The Wii has more consoles sold than MS and Sony combined.

 

[Parsian]

[citation][nom]techguy911[/nom]If you know anything about hardware the ps3 potential is beyond the xbox360, most games use 1/4 of the power it has at it's disposal.If the 360 had better hardware then why are they not used for folding@home?, why is the military not buying 360's? and why do largest rings of crackers use many networked ps3's to crack SSL?.The bluray is only icing on the cake, the bluray is not just for movies but games having more storage on one disk means more content and last of all if you say you can't see the diff between a dvd movie and bluray you need your eyes checked.[/citation]


the CELL PROCESSOR of PS3 is better at mathematical calculations over the XBOX360's... But PS3's GPU is very comparable to that of XBOX360 (although back then, X1900 series were better than GeForce 7800 series) since they belong to almost same generation...

PS3 has a fast ram but very little of it, its harder to program for and ... XBOX360 is much simpler solution, it has started earlier and cheaper to produce game for than PS3... (atleast thus far)

there is only so much PS3 can handle, due to its hardware limitation its not that much more than xbox 360s. If you consider the fact that NATAL is coming and Micro$ofts renewal of the console, its not so obvious to why the projection favors PS3

 

[zerapio]

I didn't read the blog post but I don't think the analyst would arrive to the same conclusions if say MS releases a BD enabled XBox 360 or if Nintendo refreshes the console or perhaps releases a new console in 2 years.

 

[matt9719]

I completely agree with the analysts prediction. Blu-ray is one of the reasons I chose the PS3, and it is absolutely beautiful on a 50inch plasma TV... not to mention the amazing 24 bit 5.1-7.1 channel uncompressed surround sound. While the sound may not be as important to other people as it is to me, honestly if someone can't see the difference in detail (resolution) compared to a regular DVD or upscaled DVD, then they should at least see the difference in color depth and vibrance when the right plasma or LED lit LCD is used. I digressed, but honestly the cell is an amazing processor and XDR ram (I think that's the name) is blazing fast allowing massive amounts of information to be transferred from the cell to ram, but other than for Folding@home, I do not believe it's being used near its potential. Overall I am excited to see what games in 2015 look like on the PS3... I'm sure they will blow the xbox 360 out of the water as I believe current games are using almost all or all of its processing power. (The processor architecture (I think it was netburst) currently is so far ahead of what is in the xbox 360, whereas not that far ahead of the cell.)

BTW I own all three systems so I am not a fanboy or all that biased.

 

[tayb]

[citation][nom]techguy911[/nom]If you know anything about hardware the ps3 potential is beyond the xbox360, most games use 1/4 of the power it has at it's disposal.If the 360 had better hardware then why are they not used for folding@home?, why is the military not buying 360's? and why do largest rings of crackers use many networked ps3's to crack SSL?.The bluray is only icing on the cake, the bluray is not just for movies but games having more storage on one disk means more content and last of all if you say you can't see the diff between a dvd movie and bluray you need your eyes checked.[/citation]

lol. 1/4th of the power? Is it fun to pull numbers out of your ass? Must be.

And I'm laughing at your main arguments here that the Xbox 360 is slower because 1. It doesn't do folding@home, 2. The military isn't buying Xboxs, and 3. That "crackers" use the PS3.

First, Microsoft doesn't allow folding@home. The Xbxo 360 has plenty of horsepower and an almost equal amount to the PS3. Anyone claiming the PS3 is significantly more powerful is completely blinded by fanboyism.

Secondly, the military TRIED to buy consoles from Microsoft and Microsoft told them flat out "no." They wouldn't make money from selling them so they declined to sell them to the military.

And lastly, "crackers", as you so eloquently called them, don't use the Xbox 360 because, once again, it isn't anywhere nearly as easy as to use a PS3. Microsoft hasn't and never will allow third party OS downloads and runs a very tight ship. Sony doesn't.

Duh.

 

[Parsian]

Nobody doubts BLU Ray is a superior technology over DVD... It is the issue of whether the consumers would still buy PS3 over XBOX360 purely because of its BLU Ray feature... Note the fact that for a very long time, PS3 was flavored with CHEAPEST BLU RAY tag and had the advantage.

but over time, this is not going to be true. Blu Ray stand alone players are getting cheaper.

ALSO, you have to consider a release of xbox360 blu ray and project natal
or the release of slim xbox or a next gen xbox which could drive the costs of the console significantly lower than PS3 slim

 

[phantomtrooper]

If I were to buy a console it would be a PS3 hands down.

 

[Parsian]

[citation][nom]soldier37[/nom]The Wii youve got to be kidding. Not even in my vocabulary. Idiots buying that along with the crapbox. High End PC gaming is where its at and the PS3 is the best Blu ray player period. If you dont have either you just need to crawl under a rock.[/citation]


that's mean!!!

however, +1 for the comment on Wii but then again wii is the only GF friendly activity for lifeful people and people practicing pervertism

 

[Mr_Man]

I think the PS2 won this console war. Think about it.

 

[UbeRveLT]

[citation][nom]Mr_Man[/nom]I think the PS2 won this console war. Think about it.[/citation]
I would say the original XBOX won.....

 

[Guest]

By this analyst's logic, Wii could win if they just kept making them FOREVER. Cheerleading for sales of a product that's still on the market years after it's competitors have released NEW versions isn't exactly "winning".