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Xbox 360 Prices Dropping, How Does it Compare To PS3?
Boston (dbTechno) – Microsoft is expected to announce a price cut across all three available Xbox 360 consoles, but how will they compare to the PS3?
At their current cost the more equipped Elite with its 120 GB hard drive will run a buyer around $450, a Premium and the 60 GB drive at $350, and a low class Arcade at $280.
Rumored price cuts have the Elite listed at $400, the Premium at $300, and the Arcade at $200. That would put the Elite’s price tag about even with the Playstation 3, which Sony currently only makes in the 80 GB version.
Their will always be talk of which console is better than the other, but it really depends on what a gamer wants from his system. For a person that wants the best deal for his/her money at the moment, it appears that the Xbox 360 Premium is the top choice.
The expected price cut would make it cheaper then the PS3 and Xbox 360 Elite, and also much cheaper than buying an Arcade and then buying all the other goodies separately.
For someone interested in Blu-ray, then the PS3 would be the top choice, as it comes with the Blu-ray feature and movie downloads, and while the Xbox 360 has movie downloads a Blu-ray player will cost about $300 by itself.
Author: Staff
Surely it also depends on other factors like….
Do you want Wi-Fi – Built in on the PS3, $100 extra on the 360
Do you want to play games online – Free on PS3, $50 a year minimum on 360
Do you want reliable hardware – <2% failure rate on PS3′s, 33% failure rate on 360
Would you like to play games like Resistance 2, LittleBigPlanet, Motorstorm Pacific Rift, KillZone 2, MetalGearSolid 4, Infamous, MAG, DC Online, God of War III etc – or would you prefer games like Halo 3, Gears of War 2, Fable II etc.
Would you want to invest in a company with a track record of long-term console support and extended lifecycles to give you the most value and longer term return on your investment like Sony – or invest in a company like Microsoft who’s first console lasted just 4 years before they removed all support for it forcing people to upgrade and a company that is alledgedly already planning to release Halo 4 on a revised console to make you splash out more cash sooner than you would like to?
The decision is no where near as clear cut as this article makes out, and I still maintain that all things considered the PS3 is far better value – by quite a margin in my opinon – and that now applies to it’s gaming abilities as well as it’s Blu-ray and media abilities…
@ps3owner:
Spoken like a true fanboy!! now instead of writing lameass comments, how about blowing the dust off your p.o.s3 and play some games! oh yeah i almost forgot, all ps3 games suck! so does online, free? yeah ever heard the term “you get what you pay for”? i think the choice over gears 2 or resistence 2 will be settled soon, with gears way outselling resistence, atleast by 3 to 1!! and for the so called rrod, old news brother! let it go! let it go!- peace
@PS3OwnerActually, the old 360s are the crappy ones. The new ones are a lot less prone to fail. And Xbox Live is way better than PSN. And the original Xbox only lasted 4 years because of issues with Nvidia. That won’t happen this gen. For a second there, I thought you were Ivan_PSP, the fanboyish way you were talking.