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- funnydale, on 04/14/2008, -25/+168As an owner of both consoles, the decision is simple: I'll get the version that looks and runs better. Which version is that? I have no clue; but considering that almost every multiplatform game on the PS3 runs choppier than the 360 counterpart (save for Burnout, which I bought on the PS3), I'll more than likely get the 360 version.
If both versions look the same or there are minor differences, then I'll get the 360 version because everyone I know plays on Xbox Live and at least for me, the PS3's online network is a vast wasteland -- most of my friends spend more time folding proteins than playing games.
Not that I'm hating on the PS3 -- I just bought Hot Shots Golf and preordered MGS4 -- but the fact remains is that I'll never buy the PS3 version of a multiplatform game (especially a multiplayer one) unless it looks and runs better than the 360 version. - deaftly, on 04/14/2008, -19/+67obvious fanboy is obvious
- mywhitenoise, on 04/14/2008, -26/+6542% is pretty ***** good for a console that's considered a "failure".
- ChinezePanda, on 04/14/2008, -25/+63Rockstar did say the PS3 and 360 versions are IDENTICAL.
Granted we may hear uncompressed audio and see uncompressed video on the PS3.
But other than that... IDENTICAL.
And Im sorry. I own a 360 and a PS3... and Achievements and the DLC are not the selling points of this game OR ANY GAME.
Since.. well. You HAVE TO BUY the DLC. - cavie2002, on 04/14/2008, -2/+39who gives a ***** i just want my game and i want it NOOOW
- deaftly, on 04/14/2008, -40/+75360 version = more features then ps3 version for the same price, the choice is obvious.
- Nobi-Wan, on 04/14/2008, -6/+33I have a friends list for a reason. I only play with those people.
- Nobi-Wan, on 04/14/2008, -7/+33If you pay retail for Xbox Live it costs less than a dollar a week (52 weeks in a year) and most Live subscriptions come with 13 months anyway. If you can't afford that then maybe you should be working instead of playing games.
- charlescheese, on 04/14/2008, -3/+28"whole web communities set up to promote the PS3"
OMG, whole web communities?!? Seriously man, go look out there, there are web communities for EVERYTHING on the internet. There's probably a moldy Frito web community, and I know you already know all about the NAMBLA web community. That a console that's sold about 12 million units would have web communities dedicated to it should be no surprise to you. - TheJah, on 04/14/2008, -7/+31The DLC episodes will be at least 10 hours in length. That's awesome
- santasing, on 04/14/2008, -10/+34I guess it just reflects the number of consoles out there for each brand.
- truspector, on 04/14/2008, -1/+24The same idiot that would pay $100 for a wireless adapter instead of using a bridge.
- BlueSkyfish, on 04/14/2008, -18/+40Hurry up with that PC version, Rockstar.
- inactive, on 04/14/2008, -6/+27We know almost next to nothing about this game, why would the DLC be any different?
- Azimuth1, on 04/14/2008, -15/+36I don't see why the cost of Xbox Live matters, the chances are you already have a Live subscription, you're not paying extra for ths game.
And no, Micosoft dd not pay $50,000,000 for something the PS3 will eventually get anyway. - mywhitenoise, on 04/14/2008, -5/+26joystiq, xbox360fanboy.com, and ps3fanboy.com all took part in this poll you ***** moron...not only that, but you were only allowed to vote once. Enough with the "fail", you sound like you're in junior high repeating the same unfunny joke over and over.
- Nobi-Wan, on 04/14/2008, -14/+33I went over to some guys house that owns a PS3 and he was trying to give me the same rundown about "4 years of Live plus the system equals the cost of a PS3" blah blah blah....
I told him I get my Live subscriptions off of Craigslist or ebay... I even found a $40 package on sale at Toys R Us that included 13 months, 2 arcade games, 200 MS points and the Vision Camera. Plus how can someone add Home as a bullet point to their argument? The thing isn't even in Beta yet. And how do you know that the DLC is timed? Source?
Just play it on the system you're having the most fun with. It shouldn't matter to anyone else. - StandardsDT, on 04/14/2008, -0/+18You must not know anything about pricing do you? The cost of the Blu-Ray player is built in so therefore it does not come free. However I do understand the point you are trying to make.
- KNon, on 04/14/2008, -9/+27The Xbox Live community doesn't just include strangers, it also includes the people you know. If I've got more people friends to play with on a certain console, I'll probably pick that version over the other. Playing with strangers over XBL and PSN is a pretty lame experience most of the time, especially in Halo 3.
- hollismb, on 04/14/2008, -3/+19According to what the recent OXM UK magazine says (which I read elsewhere), the download episodes are supposed to be 'at least 10 hours'. Of course, I haven't seen this magazine myself.
- reed311, on 04/14/2008, -2/+18Well, the numbers are close because online polls shouldn't be trusted at all. Just ask the Ron Paul folks about how well their spamming of polls helped.
- BattleScars, on 04/14/2008, -10/+26I'd still rather pay $0/month
- funnydale, on 04/14/2008, -7/+23I don't give a crap about the "Xbox live" community as a whole. What I was talking about is the people in the gaming coumunity that I hang around with. I hate playing with random people -- which is why I can't stand the PSN network. Say what you want, but Xbox Live is great if you have a bunch of friends spread around the country (or planet).
Other than maybe a few COD4 deathmatches that I play to rank up, I only play people I know online. And when it comes to my group of friends, everyone who has both systems always gets the 360 version of a multiplatform online game while buying the single-player and 1st-party games on the PS3. - WhereAmI, on 04/14/2008, -5/+21To my friends it matters. We just sign up once a month...obviously we care about achievements, cause, our e-penis needs to just get that extra inch.
Basically that $50 fee always comes at the wrong time. - 42Vindictive, on 04/14/2008, -1/+17Yes, because we all know imacbook is a hardcore hoodlum who lives his life on da streetz.
- inactive, on 04/14/2008, -0/+16Well if you take a less myopic view and include *global* sales, you'll see that Sony, starting out a year late, is doing very, very well. Not that facts will remove your fanboy goggles, but it was worth a try.
- inactive, on 04/14/2008, -5/+20Newsflash girlfriends:
A poll on Joystiq.com is not representative of the millions of people who will buy GTA IV. It only accounts for a fraction of them, the geeks who do not understand the jokes or what life is like in Liberty City. - Butros, on 04/14/2008, -3/+18They'll look the same dude. Not worth it to devs to optimize the graphics for both platforms, they will cater to the least common performance denominator in ports like these (thank god that's not the wii)
- Rosco, on 04/14/2008, -6/+20PS3 or XBox360, I don't give a rat's ass. Give me the PC version.
- WhereAmI, on 04/14/2008, -4/+17Dedicated servers, the way online games are meant to be played.
- Spuy767, on 04/14/2008, -5/+18Do you have any idea what you're talking about? Dev houses are being gobbled up by conglomerates who are making games for money, not because they give a *****. The games look better on the 360 because it is less expensive to develop a game on the 360 because you get to use microsoft's EZ-360-Game-Creator 4. Their API is epic, it practically writes games for you compared to what you used to have to do with the PS3. Now that the PS3 has a more mature API, you're going to see games that look better, but the EA's of the word aren't going to invest the extra time it would take to optimize a game for the PS3 as opposed to doing the bare minimum of porting a 360 engine over. I think it's a miracle that the cross-platform titles look as good as they do.
- mattyice11, on 04/14/2008, -5/+18No, he's suggesting that putting the friends list to use is much easier on XBL than it is on PSN.
You sign onto each service and you see that 3 friends are playing 3 different games. You'd like to get the 4 of you together to play the same game. On XBL, you can have the 4 of you in the same game lobby inside of 60 seconds without using anything other than XBL. On PSN this game will never occur if you don't start making phone calls, IMs, etc. This is what he's getting at. - ndnspongebob, on 04/14/2008, -11/+24wow, this is a really depressing analysis, the reason most people put was for achievement points, i have to say achievement points are the most retarded thing to buy a game for. if someone wants to compete for that, thats fine, but buy the game because you like it not for some glorified points. get to know the true essence of the game instead of tallying points, you may end up liking it more or should i say enjoying it more? the whole reason to play game it start with?
- Radan, on 04/14/2008, -2/+15Well, being both a PS3 and an Xbox360 owner I can say that for me the online experience for the different platforms has been like day and night. The problem with the PS3 as I see it is that it tries too much to be everything, including in a way, a computer. The Xbox360 in the other hand has been built from ground up around the Xbox Live feature. The Xbox dashboard where you can see what games your friends are playing and enables you to (if possible) jump right into any game they are playing or invite them to the game you are playing (or inviting them to a private voice chat), simply works much smoother than on the PS3.
Also, on the Xbox, everyone got a mic, so for both good and bad you will actually be able to communicate with people.
Another thing with the whole friend setup on the Xbox is that it makes it possible to easier make "online friends" (or whatever one could call them), which are people who you might enjoy playing with or they might got a good connection, or you simply know they play the same games as you, but aren't really people that you would hang out with outside the game. - inactive, on 04/14/2008, -2/+14At least a 120GB HD for the 360 is only $150. The 320GB HD I put in my PS3 cost $160.
- tumbler360, on 04/14/2008, -6/+18I'm surprised that the numbers are so close. 360 games typically sell 2x-3x more than ps3 games. (Multiplatform games) 60/40 is not a big margin. I feel like the sales for GTA on the 360/PS3 are going to clearly define where gamers are as far as these two consoles are concerned. I was expecting this metric to be more like 25%PS3, and 75% 360. We'll see how the sales figures go.
- HenvY, on 04/14/2008, -2/+13Yeah, the downloadable content costs money. How did you work out more features for the same price? I don't know about the USA but it's actually a couple of quid cheaper here on the PS3 anyway.
- NipGrip, on 04/14/2008, -11/+22You mean $18? Even cheaper elsewhere, I spent a total of 15 seconds looking that up. Oh and it's wireless and works with your phones also. Open standards and all.
http://www.amazon.com/Plantronics-Explorer-Bluetoo ...
Also, how's that easy to upgrade hard drive on the 360? Should we continue to nitpick? - thebaron2, on 04/14/2008, -0/+11Game demos are free on both systems.
- WhereAmI, on 04/14/2008, -9/+20Whats important to note here is that an internet poll on GTA IV 360 v PS3 is accurate and 100% the truth while an internet poll on the failure rate of the 360 @ 66% is inaccurate and biased.
- McSploogins, on 04/14/2008, -23/+34Am I the only one really doesn't care? Whatever differences there are are going to be slim anyway other than dlc, but id rather have free online than dlc, personally.
- VinnieDaMac, on 04/14/2008, -5/+16I'd rather have the option of buying DLC than have no DLC at all. I'm sure most people would buy the DLC if they were given the option to after they beat the game.
- WhereAmI, on 04/14/2008, -3/+14Sony Defense Force was fake...its by the same people that own Wii60.com, its more likely that you yourself truspector wrote articles than Tahiri or I (not accusing though).
- charlescheese, on 04/14/2008, -18/+29How's that $100 wifi adapter treating you and $50 a year XBL for the life of the console which ends up making the console cost about $100 more (see because it's miracle if a 360 lasts 2 years, 50 x 2 = $100)?
Sorry, but the $5 HDMI cable is a much smaller investment than the wifi adapter and XBL. Oh and the PS3 comes with a hi def bluray player for free! - truspector, on 04/14/2008, -5/+15 I would respond to your points but you didn't make any and I find it tasteless to bash retards.
- charlescheese, on 04/14/2008, -5/+15What idiot would pay $40 to $50 for a headset? I paid $8 for mine. Or you can plug in a USB headset and be done with it.
- hotdamn, on 04/14/2008, -3/+13not being able to pay for an online gaming service will not make me reconsider anything, really.
- evnglion, on 04/14/2008, -1/+11wow, you actually use the Wii online? I tried, but I forgot my friends long string of numbers
- HigherLogic, on 04/14/2008, -5/+14I've never understood why people complain about the price of Xbox Live. Seriously, it's like the cost of a fast food meal per month, or a ***** pack of cigarettes.
- damnyooneek, on 04/14/2008, -6/+15IGN said the PS3 had less anti-aliasing problems than the Xbox 360's but the colors are richer on the Xbox 360 but ran smooth framerates
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