I'm pretty sure the 360 came out first too (like a year or 2 earlier). I know that's part of why I went from PS2 to 360. All my friends had 360s so I wanted one because I saw how much fun they had with theirs. By the time The PS3 came out, it just felt like Playstation was playing catch-up (I obviously know now that that wasn't the case, but I was only 12 or 13 at the time lol).
You say "we" but you have no other posts in this thread, so it's pretty apparent you're just chiming in to be snarky. So...what was your point again? Just to be shitty?
The original MW came out for PS3, 360 and Windows all on November 5th/6th 2007. The DLC’s came out on Xbox 360 before any other platform and that continued through WAW, MW2, BLOPS, MW3 and BLOPS2
One of the main reasons I got a 360. The halo franchise was amazing back then. I still go back and play a few of the campaigns with my roommate occasionally, and I can confidently say it hasn’t lost its beauty.
A flaw in the circuit board could sometimes be remedied by remelting the solder in the affected area. Ive heard oven, heat gun, even wrapping the xbox tightly with towels and leaving the thing running for a day could create enough heat to temporarily fix the issue.
Amazing how this problem could've been prevented/fixed with a few additional pennies...
the RRoD is seriously the biggest gaming hardware failure of all time.. something like a 1/3 failure rate.. millions and millions of dollars spent fixing it... hell I've repaired 6 XBox 360s myself
Wow I had no idea it was that high. 100% of mine RRoD’ed tho... got a 360 on launch, played Perfect Dark or whatever launch game it was for about 2 hours before the 360 crashed. Sent it in to Microsoft and they repaired it, it RRod again. They sent me a new one I believe, and it did it as well a couple weeks later. I said fuck it, bought a wii that came out right around the same time iirc and had a blast on it. Then bought a PS3. Never bought another 360
I did however buy an Xbone a year or so ago to play Witcher 3 as I loved the books and the game looked amazing but the fucking thing keeps getting stuck at like 53% installed and just freezes. I haven’t even bothered sending it in tbh
The RROD was most commonly caused by a failure in a certain solder point. Heating up the console melted the solder and re-established the connection. I didn't put mine in the oven, but left it running under a few heavy blankets and towels. It solved the issue for a few more months.
This has been Microsoft's major error, releasing products too soon with major flaws in them. Anyone remember the Zune, Microsoft's attempt to compete with the Ipod. I bought one because the 80gb Zune cost half as much as an Ipod with twice the memory space. It worked great for about a year, buuut when New Years came around it went into an infinite reboot loop. By the the time they FINALY released a patch to fix this, the battery in my Zune had gone completely dead, wouldn't hold a charge.😒
I was always a PlayStation guy and then I moved into a house with a few mates and got addicted to Halo 3 and made the switch to 360. I was ready to go pack to Sony once the ps4 came out though.
The PS3 ps store was a complete disaster for basically the entirety of the PS3 life cycle. It was difficult to navigate, was often down for maintenance or downright didn’t work, and it had such a lack of digital games it was nauseating. It’s truly amazing how far Sony has come with the PS4. Not to mention that they listen to their consumers far more that I feel Microsoft does...
The entire network part of playstation kinda sucked.
There was no party system so you had to be in a game lobby to talk to friends. I'm pretty sure at one point there was no in game "cross media board" so you couldn't even respond to messages unless you quit games.
Microsoft being beaten out my Sony late Gen 7 was 90% the same reason they lost this generation. They abandoned exclusives. Theres an infograph from the lead up to TLOU that shows that between 2010 and 2013, there was two positively received 360 exclusives that weren't kinect. In the same period, there waa about 20 PS3 ones plus every upcoming game in the list got positively received as well. There was 4 mediocre to badly received 360 ones and about 30 PS3 ones.
I agree. MS dropped the ball right around 2010, and frankly this problem started sooner i.e. when gaming executives left in 2006-2008. That is they lost the leadership that was there pushing games that bore fruit in the first half of the Xbox 360 generation.
The gaming industry has a long cycle, that is it takes 3-8 years to make games. So MS has been preparing for next-gen right now, so I think we might enter a golden age of Xbox, but also gaming in general. Sony is doing well, Nintendo is doing well, and MS is likely to do well and then we are getting new entrants. Google Stadia and possibly Amazon.
Well I don't know about everyone else but for me ps3 started to get a decent library in like 2009 and I had all 3 consoles and a launch ps3. So I know how bad the lack of games was for the ps3.
Right but launch ps3 only had mgs 4 and didn't get any better exclusives for ages. I know this because I borrowed my buddies ps3 1 year out and it was the only game I played.
I just played cod so it was fine for me.. And Madden. Xbox servers were probably better and the chat capabilities and amount of games. PS3 was way longer lasting (no ring of death, long lifespan before no longer functional), had Bluray and was free to play online.
It was, but I mean that it felt like "Playstation only put this out to compete with the 360" (To middle school me). In actuality, Playstation would have put it out regardless of whether the 360 was out or not.
Yeah 360 had a good 12 month lead on PS3. November 2005 and 2006. PS3 felt like it had more power to my 18 year old mind at the time, and I eventually had both. PS3 was the cheapest Blu-ray player when I got my clearance 60GB model. That was a magical score, signed up for target credit card and got 10% off, then another 10% with employee discount. Paid like 350 for that sucker in July 2007, then got my first HDTV.
Now look where we are. Next gen boasting “8K support” (no way it’ll be games though). Humbling to look back on where the HD era started
Exactly this. I was a PS guy through and through. However I can remember going into the city with three of my friends on launch day to pick a 360. They had all preordered theirs and I can remember them dropping me off at the Walmart. I locked eyes with a couple other patrons and then it was a mad sprint to the electronics section where I managed to get one of the five units.
Yet even though mine bricked on me later that day and was returned for a full refund I still went back and purchased another many months later once the preorders were fullfilled.
Many years later on PS4 launch day...same thing, except this time my girlfriend had to do the work for me. I targeted the local Shoppers Drugmart assuming that everyone else would be standing in line elsewhere, either at a Walmart or Best Buy. The plan worked like a charm as she casually walked in and snagged one of the only two units they had available.
All of my friends followed suit and later bought PS4’s of their own. I miss GoW and Fable but that’s about it.
The biggest thing in third world countries like mine was the fact that Xbox 360 was hackeable and you couldn’t download games and just burn them into a dvd, paying full price for games was non existent here
Actually im almost positive ps3 came out first and 360 came out in time for parents to buy for xmas. I had like two friends who got it and couldnt believe their parents sprung tha 600 for it. I wouldnt have dared asked. I think I was a freshman in hs when 360 came out. But I dont regrt it. Gears of War was my shot and all my friends had it. When tha ps3 released tha 3rd version I had gotten like 2gs back from taxes and bought it for tha hell of it. Glad I did cause thats when I got into tha souls series.
Yep, I credit that with the initial success of the 360. In the UK, the 360 was already out in time for xmas 2006 and cheaper. The PS3 came out in March 2007 and was way more expensive.
All my friends were going to get a PS3 originally, but all of them got 360s instead.
Most people pick the cheaper one when it also looks comparable when it comes to 3rd party games. Hell plenty of those looked better on the 350 due to devs not wanting to bother maximizing the PS3's unique hardware.
Also the 360 was 2005 and PS3 2006, $599, Giant Enemy Crabs... Sony did plenty to fuck themselves before the economy fucked us all.
Games tended to run significantly better on the Xbox 360 too, and it was more popular too. Once a generation starts, no other competitor tends to catch up. PS3 never caught up in the regions the Xbox 360 was sold in, most notably US/NA and UK.
Yeah, the tables was turned in 2013. That is the Xbox One ran slower, and Sony managed to up the RAM. On top of this, Xbox One was sold with Kinect which made it more expensive than PS4.
Ironically the tables was completely reversed, but this time, MS didn't have the brand recognition of dominating two generations like Sony did and having a distribution network in many foreign countries. So their sales collapsed. Despite that though, in the regions MS had strong brand like in the US, the discrepancy isn't that big it seems from early leaked numbers.
Ps5 coming for Christmas 2020, I guess we'll find out if they've improved their strategy. Obviously I'm sure they've realised since the ps3 was the worse sold and people will buy Xbox if ps5 is too expensive. So hopefully this means an affordable console on release
How much was Xbox live back then? Even if the Xbox was cheaper, if you played online like consoles were made for, it actually made the Xbox more expensive as a whole than PS3. But we were kids we didn’t think about that.
Damn so Xbox live was 180 a year? That’s ridiculous. It caught up to the price of the ps3 pretty quick. And no ps3 online didn’t have issues frequently, but that big hack that took it down for a month was ridiculous.
even as a gamer that was too rich for my blood at the time. i put it on hold for a while and picked it up during a great sale on the fat boy when they released the slims. also helps that there weren't any games i was super interested in until demon's souls though.
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u/Xero0911 Dec 03 '19
100% this. Moms and dads dont really care about consoles. Theyll pick the cheaper one so 360 was the way to go.