Which is better? (Xbox 360 or PS3)

[Cody Carey]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

PS3 is crap and always be crap.

$600 firstly starts it off as an under dog.
Wii allows just about every cd game that Nintendo has made. also some other goodies. i can't wait to wait in line for 7+ ours to get my hands on a Wii next month.

and i also have a 360 and i love it too!

I don't necessarily agree... Lets try to put biases behind us and look at the facts.

Processing:
Xbox 360 has 3 symmetrical IBM processors, each running at or 3.2 ghz.
PS3 has a total of 7 "cell" processors running at 3.2ghz.

System Floating Point Performance:
Xbox 360: 1 teraflop
Play station 3: 2 TFLOPS

Memory bandwidth:
Xbox 360: 22.4 Gb/s
Play station 3: 25.6 Gb/s

Disk Type:
Xbox 360: DVD and fully backwards compatible
Play station 3: Blue ray and fully backwards compatible (allows for more complexed games than can fit on DVD)

I/O
Xbox:
• Support for up to four wireless game controllers
• Three USB 2.0 ports
• Two memory unit slots
• Wi-Fi ready: 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g
Play station:
Support for up to 7 blue tooth controllers
USB: Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
Memory Stick: standard/Duo, PRO x 1
SD: standard/mini x 1
CompactFlash: (Type I, II) x 1
Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11 b/g

GPU:

Xbox: Core 500MHz
Ps3: Core 550MHz

So if you look at the published specs, the Play station has far more potential as a game system... But I will believe the specs when I see the system myself. I believe, however that the play station 3 will out perform the xbox360, and that Sony will do a far better job than Microsoft did with distribution and product quality. We'll just have to wait 'till November 17th to see...

Xbox screenshot:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/view...eId=1&shotId=1
Play station 3 screenshot:
http://www.us.play station.com/PS3/gamedetail.html?ID=153

Info Sources:

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/play station-3/play station-3-full-specs-103733.php

http://news.com.com/Xbox+specs+revea...3-5705372.html