The PS3 did have a similar issue as well with the yellow/red light of death it just wasn't as common. Admittedly Microsoft did shoot themselves in the foot a bit rushing the 360 out which was basically the main reason for the RROD.
I lost one in 2014. Shame cause I've had a lot of games in it. Digitally. But I also have physical copies which I still have today. I remember going to my friend's house just to let him get a look at my X360 problem. It actually opened in his TV and worked 🤔 he didn't fix anything he just opened it and voila it worked. Now when I went back home and tried opening it. it won't open as if it didn't open in my friends house 😮💨 X360 is such a frail console
@@iSeeCorpsesyou can remove the hard drive if it’s on the internal storage then I’m not too sure you can. Also at your friends did they use their power supply for their Xbox 360? Your power supply could be bad and showing the 3 rings
Like the PS2 before it, the PS3 was my main movie player. In 2006, you couldn't get a blu-ray player as cheap and as filled with the proper lossless audio processing as the PS3. Same goes for the PS2's DVD functionality and cost compared to standalone players.
the ps3 was insane, it was overpriced at launch, but standalone bluray players were even more expensive, my dad picked up a launch model to be his home theater player, and only incidentally started to game on it
i have a friend who vehemently prefers the Xbox OS and im always confused by that, the Xbox UI was always pretty bad, it was inconsistent, advertisement heavy, and overall a mess to navigate. the ps3's XMB UI is so much cleaner and less confuzing, plus the opening sound of an orchestra tuning is still iconic
@@quinnmarchese6313 the Xbox OS was significantly better than the PS3 OS it just made sense even with all the adverts and bs towards the end of the life cycle it was easy to navigate PS3 stuff was just clunky by comparison is just looks clean.
@@TsZen876 that’s what i mean about the UI and aesthetic. It is dated, of course. But it is clean and looks relatively nice. It doesn’t feel TOO out of place. But that’s just my opinion
Depends. I’ll agree that the PS3 ui was better than the last 360 ones but the original blades and the 2008 NXE dashboards dumped on the XMB. I’m a Sony mainly but I have to admit Xbox 360 blades was one of the best gaming UI’s ever made.
@@zachryder3150 Singular most popular consoles ever??? Are you dumb? There's Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony. WTF else is there? All these consoles are popular dummy. Maybe if there were like 20 consoles, then you can make your argument of POPULAR. Everyone knows about the Wii, PS3, Xbox 360. It's a matter of how it all played out, and the PS3 played their cards wrong a lot of times, yet they exclusively gave amazing games that lasted way longer through the generations. AND if you were to match the PS3's to the PS2 and PS4, it for sure is fuckin underrated.
I worked for Sony when the PS3 came out. They attribute a ton of sales to it being an affordable (for the time) Blu-Ray player. While working in a Sony store I can attest to this as the dedicated Blu-Ray player that Sony sold went for $1000 and was built like a tank. Of course Xbox back HD-DVD, and we saw how that went
Few minor things: -Launches aligned, the PS3 actually started off outselling the Xbox 360. The 360 only outsold the PS3 a mere two out of the 7-8 years that they were both on the market. Coming off of the heels of the 24 million selling Xbox and the 150 million selling PlayStation 2, Sony actually thought they would overcome the Xbox 360 in sales by the end of 2007. In a lot of ways, the Xbox 360 was "Rocky Balboa". It lost the fight but did better than anyone predicted at the time. -The PS3 outshined the Xbox 360 in features. Especially in the beginning. Wi Fi, a Blu Ray player, a web browser, full backwards compatibility with the PS3 and PS1, support for various memory cards and internal hard drives, the PS3 had features the 360 just didn't or that wouldn't arrive until years later. That's why their ad campaign was "It only does everything." Then again, the Xbox offered different features like custom soundtracks and cross game chat. Pick your poison, I guess. -The PS3 was eventually able to almost match the 360 in price but it came at a loss of a lot of functionality. A PS3 from 2008 and earlier has many features that the later models just don't have. -While Sony's first party was amazing and they had a lot of support from Japanese third parties, Microsoft still made exclusivity deals for console versions of games like Witcher 2 and Splinter Cell Conviction. The Xbox landscape wasn't as barren as it seemed. -The PS3 was sold at a loss for most of its life. It cost Sony billions of dollars. Even selling at launch for $600 meant Sony was losing close to $200 per console. There was real fear that Sony might file for bankruptcy. That's all the rambling I have. I loved the PSWii60 era. Everybody won.
Having owned the Xbox 360, it's admittedly hard to argue with much of this list... the Red Ring issue, the subscription fee just to play games online (on top of having a subscription to Netflix and/or Hulu), and technically Microsoft's only portable gaming system was... laptops, which we know aren't remotely pocket-sized nor were as affordable as a DS or a PSP
@@abrondo4162 That's why they've bought up a bunch of companies and shut them down so Sony can't do business with them anymore. Microsoft is having a tantrum.
1 thing you forgot to mention that original xbox 360 had a lot of necessary accessories you'd have to buy, the WiFi antenna, memory card and dvd remote all of which the playstation didn't need, so how much of a price difference would it be after adding them.
The Last of us vs GoW Judgement argument is kinda weak, also the handheld argument is non-existent. Microsoft didn't even try with a handheld, so why bother comparing the two in that department.
I genuinely still like Gears of War: Judgement. It might have been the weakest entry in the series but it was (and is to me) a fun entry I'll still play again.
Judgement vs one of the greatest games of all time was definitely a point of convo back then. Microsoft had us questioning did they care about good games anymore
Video that Microsoft showed off Gears of War in 2006 one year before the PS3 launched but the PS3 launched in 2006. It just didn't have a showcase to show off it's power.
the first version of the 360 wasnt thechnicaly cheaper you had to buy a hard drive a wi fi adapter and the long lost hd dvd player seperately all those combined make it more costly then the ps3
Here's another thing, not breaking. I bought a new 360 and a lightly used ps3 in 2010. The Xbox red ringed after about three years, the playstation was still working perfectly nine years later when it was ultimately stolen from me. Also I hacked the ps3 with a graphing calculator so I could play OoT on it.
The second point (Free Multiplayer that worked well), once I experience for myself at the time I felt ripped off by Xbox. The exclusives as always subjective but in my case also agree since on Xbox only Halo attracted me while on the other side Uncharted, God Of War and Infamous were WAY more my thing (for some reason Lost Odyssey and blue Dragon did not exist, guess Xbox did not marketed well)
I can honestly say that PlayStation has always been my main console since the PS1 days and as someone that has owned damn near every home console, PlayStation wins by far.
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PS3 could be used as a blu-ray player. Far as I know, Xbox 360 could not. Oh and the last thing PS3 did better than Xbox 360 is ofc the name. PS3 or Playstation 3, makes sense, it's easy. Xbox 360, not as much even though Xbox Series X is slightly worse.
So long WC Gaming. I just keep unsubscribing from WC channels because of Scott. I haven’t heard him on horror yet. But if I ever hear his stupid voice on a video titled “Why A Nightmare on Elm St is the worst horror film of all time” I’ll leave that channel too.
You forgot to mention the PS3 had a much lower failure rate compared to the Xbox 360’s 54% (RROD). Also the Blu-ray Disc on PS3 had games on single disc whereas the Xbox used regular DVDs with games needed 2-4 discs.
Now that Microsoft owns AMD it is likely that they will have good cpus. Sadly it is bad news to us pc gamers bc AMD was the better choice for affordable eficiency, or good and cheap. Idk why MS keeps buying those huge corps that had a friendly face in my mind bc they sold affordable products, but im pretty sure they are going to f&%k that up so they arent affordable anymore.
7. i still say it's a tied. 6. free is good, but depends on your connection. 5. don't really care. 4. same as #7. 3. it's the games that sell consoles. 2. it never really work for sony. 1. hear it was like hell to develop games for the ps3, since it os was difficult to develop games for, while xbox 360 is similar to windows.
For consoles the only time I choose xbox over PS was the 360. I still have my PS4 Pro and haven't bought PS5, now I'm seriously thinking of staying just PC. In a certain way this time I choosing MS/xbox again, but will eventually play the PS games too. Crazy times.
im a pc player and i actively avoid Microsoft ways of getting games and stuff. Game Pass is a great idea but has lot of issues for PC, like mod support--a couple weeks ago i was helping my friend mod skyrim for the first time and we discovered that even though Game Pass claims to allow mods, a HUGE portion of skyrim mods just wont work (any SKSE mod is just not useable) because of the software locks in place that microsoft can use to disallow you to play when you dont pay for the service.
@@quinnmarchese6313 I don't have GamePass either, I have a huge backlog between PS/Steam/GOG/Epic/Amazon, it would make no sense to add more games to it. I'm always a PC gamer first, since my first games in the 90s (DM Skullkeep, Doom and The Dig), but always had one console too, my first being SNES.
Playing since Atari days but ps3 made me a gamer for life. Studios took risks and put out unique, less formulaic games. Just set mine back up yesterday
That exclusives argument was horribly skewed. A few 360 exclusives omitted from that argument are Dead Rising, Fable, Alan Wake, and Mass Effect 1. I won't deny the PS3 had some damn good games, but to say that their exclusives were better is SUPER subjective.
He could’ve given more examples on the 360’s side yeah, but the examples you’ve given here are... dubious. Alan Wake and Mass Effect 1 were ported to PC (in fact the latter eventually got a PS3 port too). Fable 2 was the only Fable game that remained 360 exclusive. Dead Rising 1 was exclusive for the generation but most likely on the basis that the PS3 wasn’t out yet at the time of release.
@@realavt Same. My current PS3 queue includes Saints Row: The Third, Yakuza Dead Souls, Yakuza: Kenzan, the Bad Company games, Wolfenstein (2009), and Alpha Protocol.
Not sure if anyone already said this but the PS3 had antialiasing which made the graphics even smoother! As an Xbox user it is with a HEAVY heart that I must admit PS3 was far better!
Way to admit you literally only read the thumbnail and then had a knee-jerk reaction in the comments instead of actually watching the video and listening to the context before commenting like a normal person
Microsoft won that gen hands down, Sony won ps4 and now everyone is realizing the pc is vastly superior so this video seems like a fanboy attempt, I understand you have to validate your purchase but cmon this is just reaching
I think one thing that was not mentioned was durability. one of my friends had to by several 360s over the years as they stopped working. My original PS3 is still chugging away in my parents basement as a blueray/netflix player. It even has the original 2 controlers.
its been long since my og fat ps3 failed but it lasted an average 4 years longer than most of friends xboxs at the time. all of my friends would compain about there xboxes red ringing, and id just sit and laugh in superior hardware
Those are things that almost everyone acknowledges though, while the list is supposed to be things that aren't acknowledged. Though I don't agree that everything that made the list fits that description either. I mean jfc, exclusives? Really? We're going to pretend that's not the first thing any PS fanboy throws out there?
I bought a slim ps3 and accidentally fell asleep while it was still on. The fan broke because of it. While my Xbox 360 I had left on for entire weekends and the fan never died. I guess people just had different experiences.
@@bobthedopeman7327 theres a really interesting pdf collecting failure statistics for that gen of consoles, the Xbox 360 had nearly a 25 percent failure rate over the first two years, far and away becoming one of the least reliable of consumer electronics at the time.
The only reason I stopped playing my PS3 is because the controller stopped working and I had too many PS4 games stacking up waiting to be played. I even dusted off the Vita just last week and I’m still impressed by it
i maintain that the switch is just the vita with a bigger screen and more first party support--the vita was amazing when it came out, its too bad Sony didnt see enough of an install base to keep actively developing for it. i also discovered my personal favorite game series thanks to the vita through Persona 4 Golden
The main thing I could say is that ps3 could play multiplayer games for free. The Xbox 360 needed a subscription. I know all systems now have a subscription to play multiplayer. But it was a pretty big deal then. On the PS3 you might have to pay for a DLC to play multiplayer but it wasn't a monthly payment. I'm looking at you the last of us factions. Make another one!
With regard to exclusives, there were quite a few Japanese titles that were only ever available on PS3 - in particular JRPGs. The 360 had a handful of JRPG exclusives in its early years (Blue Dragon, Tales of Vesperia, Lost Odyssey and a few others) but several of these (such as Star Ocean: The Last Hope and Eternal Sonata) were later ported, and after that initial rush the JRPGs for Xbox dried up almost completely. This probably comes back to the PS3 selling SIX TIMES (10.47 million vs. 1.6 million) the number of units as XBox 360 in Japan. I suppose it's less of a "nobody admits" than a "bleeding obvious", but the use of built-in blu-ray, vs. the extra-cost and soon outmoded HD DVD of the 360, was also a major advantage. Yje extra storage of blu-ray also meant that they could fit more game on a disc; Lost Odyssey came on three discs, as I recall, but would have been a single blu-ray. The smaller storage also meant that games would sometimes uses smaller textures or more aggressive graphical compression just to get everything onto a smaller disc.
Jrpgs have always been an outdated & irrelevant genre like every other weeaboos games,shows,movies,music,etc,they don't have gameplay all they have is menus(even a casual game like candy crush & angry birds have more gameplay & are more of a game than jrpgs)these are facts.
I still play on the ps3 sometimes. Love that console. It was my very first “big girl gaming device” and I have a lot of fond memories of it. Playing oblivion. The last of us. God of war. Watching that one game tester show! Haha what a time
oh man THE TESTER???? you just blasted me a decade into the past lmao. there was also that pretty solid comic book show Powers with Sharlto Copley that wasn't quite a Playstation show, but was heavily featured around that time too
@@quinnmarchese6313 idk that other show you mentioned but yeah the tester!! I watched like 3 seasons of that. It was so intense, there was so much drama sometimes. I wanted sooo bad to be a game tester. Fast forward to now and I’ve graduated art school as a 3D modeler and will be working on the entertainment industry soon. One day I will work in games, I know it.
The PS3 was a no-brainer for me because I had a huge back catalogue of PSX and PS2 games before the console even released, and the backwards compatability was essential in my decision to buy it. It is why I refuse to buy a PS4 or PS5, because neither of those allow for the same level of backwards compatability. Annoyingly they stripped all of the backwards compatability features in the slim and super slim, and my PS3 died in 2020. I sent it for repair, but the repair job barely lasted 6 months before it died again. I want to replace it, but buying an original model with the backwards compatability now (at least from what I've seen) is prohibitively expensive, so for me, the future is emulation, sadly.
Part of the reason why I stick with Sony is because I grew up with the PlayStation and switched to the GameCube and Xbox instead of the PS2. Once I picked up a PS3, I just stuck with them. I’m also 55 Platinum trophies deep and don’t feel like starting over.
I had both systems, the ps3 was just better overall IMO. I didn’t find much reason to play the 360. PS3 had better games, better tech, better controllers, and better quality. Shrug. I don’t really care how a console is launched or marketed.
I disagree when you mention the multiplayer. Yes, before PS Plus it existed and was free, but it was a shell of what the Xbox could do. Saying it worked is even a bot of a stretch, as you pointed out in the video itself with the issues it had. Sony had to spend a lot more on its infostructure to catch up. Now if you said that once it released, PS Plus was a better deal than Xbox Live Gold, I would have 100% agreed.
im always curious as to what people mean by "it was a shell of what Xbox could do". to the average gamer, it did just about everything it needed to, the only missing feature i was ever bugged by was the lack of a party chat feature, and that was added eventually. as much as xbox live had, most of it seemed both overpriced and unnecessary, like avatars. obviously, there are people who do care about customizing an avatar, but i wasnt part of that camp. i mean, PSN was pretty low quality and had lots of hacking issues and the like, but the fact that i never needed to have one of my parents credit cards to be able to play cod modern warfare 2 with my friends was a huge deal. the shitty thing about microsoft charging 60 dollars a year was that it was pretty easy to find that they werent using that money to make actual improvements and were just kinda collecting it--Sony saw that microsoft could get away with that and decided to join them on that level. Xbox Live was a fine service, but it also made every comparable service worse by dragging them down.
I didn’t really have issues with Multiplayer on my PS3, I played so much Battlefield Bad Company 2 and B3 back then haha experiences may vary I suppose
@@whocares9033 thats fair, but i was always happy with the compensation, if you had a PS3 and PSP you got four free games, plus three free months of the premium service
Sony just could. not. stop. shooting themselves in the foot with that proprietary storage format nonsense. I really wished the PSP and Vita did better, they could have been huge.
@GreenishBT I'm like 90% sure it's related to how awesome a jailbroken PSP is/was. They went as far as made it so you couldn't nest a micro SD into a PSVita memory card.
No one believes 360 beat the ps3 during their life cycles. Sales literally show who won out in the end. Better games, more unit sales, and better experiences. Xbox lost while ahead, massive L for the record books
