Which is a better console the PS3 or the Xbox 360?
I don’t know, it’s a very subjective issue, its great future prospect versus great online service. One particular piece of software that makes the PS3 unique is “Home”, this is a unique initiative in today’s world of “Social Communities”.
Home is a virtual neighborhood that comes free to every PS3 user, although the service is till under closed public beta, it is already gaining immense popularity. The idea is simple, every PS3 owner gets his own apartment, an apartment he/she can organize like a real home. You create an avatar, somebody who looks and dresses as you choose, he can dance, laugh, smile and even wave at others. In your home, you can choose your own wallpaper, color scheme and so on. The apartment can be used to invite friends to come over and spend some time, sounds lame, read on.
Your apartment will have a virtual LCD, this will be stream movies, photos and music from your PS3 HDD, so its like inviting friends over and watching a movie, even if the friend lives on another continent. There will a central lobby wherein you can meet friends, make new friends, chat about anything under the sun, using a Bluetooth headset, USB keyboard or chat commands. There will be hang-out zones like a theater where you can watch latest movie/game HD trailers, an arcade where you can play arcade games with your friends like pool or bowling, home will be used to create and play multiplayer games as well. You can purchase bigger homes for a price and add a bowling room, pool table and so on. The best part about this deal is that the entire service is free, you can roam around Home for free, all you is need is a PS3. Revenue generation is via in-game advertising and sales of in-game products.
There is a lot to know about Home, click to read a preview on Techtree.com and IGN.com. Keep watching this place for more on Home, as there is a lot to come.
P.S: This feature does not intend to showcase the PS3 as a superior gaming console, the only objective is to educate the gamer about an upcoming service.
“Which is a better console the PS3 or the Xbox 360?”
I thought what was coming was a comparison by a hard-core gamer.
Anyway, the suite of services that XBox 360 offers are very comprehensive , while the PS3 excels at hardware specs and design.
XBox, with games like Halo 3 and Gears of War 2, might also has an upper hand in the gaming titles available.
What do you say ?
No doubt, but as he already said, PS3 is for “future” gamers. There you go. Although as things stand, currently the X-box reigns supreme in most of the departments… viz., Titles, online service (hardware is a big let down though. Damn you MS people). Once the developers get a hang of the complex coding environment of the PS3 i guess games will start flowing. As far as the X-box vs PS franchise, which is better - which is not, argument goes (amidst the whole shared-unshared random access memory dynamics, 7/8 vs 3 gpu mechanisms and the presumable “bottleneck” probabilities) one thing is for sure neither of the two parties are going to “roll over and die” allowing the other party to gain a commanding control over the console domain. Lets see who prevails!!!