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[kpopSuperstar]

It has an amazing library of exclusives, but... the flimsy controller and the HORRIBLE install times ruins it. Xbox 360 was so much faster and better to use.

There were times where you had to wait 30 minutes for games just to install some trash the game needed to boot on the PS3, still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The UI is also pretty weak on the PS3 compared to the 360 blades.

 

[adamsapple]

No.

Xbox 360 was magical.

 

[BennyBlanco]

No. 360 had way more memorable games. But I never cared for Naughty Dog games. Id unironically rather play Lost Odyssey again than any ND game.

 

[Drew1440]

I always felt the Xbox 360 had a bigger effect in that generation with its achievements, NXE dashboard, party chat that was standard across games. The PS3 had a nice run towards the end, but it was really Naughty Dog that held up the PS3.

 

[MiguelItUp]

In it's later state, maybe. But man, the 360 was doing SO much better for the longest time. Loved its dashboard a lot more as well. I couldn't stand the PS3's dashboard for a LONG time.

I had both consoles, and I think about my time with the 360 over the PS3 moreso, so I guess that says a lot.

That being said I really did enjoy my time with Warhawk and Resistance. Last of Us as well. But everything else was 360 for me, lol.

 

[zaga]

No, because the Uncharted games were the only good exclusives. I borrowed a friends PS3 just to play the Uncharted games.

By comparison Xbox 360 had some amazing exclusives (and timed exclusives)

Oblivion
Bioshock
Mass Effect 1 and 2
Halo 3, ODST, Reach, 4
Gears of War series
Fable 2
…

Also most/all cross platform games ran better on the Xbox 360 eg Oblivion, Skyrim

 

[Aion002]

For me yes and by a huge margin.

MGS4 and Demon's Souls>>>>>>everything else.

 

[Porcile]

Wii has more unique and fun exclusives, and the 360 has one of the best shmup libraries of all time as well as some other cool exclusives. I can only think of a couple games I would still want to play for PS3.

 

[EruditeHobo]

FolksSoul, Everybody's Golf 5, Uncharted, R&CF: Tools of Destruction, Motorstorm, Resistance and Boku no Natsuyasumi 5. Sorry you fell for the "PS3 was bad in 2007" meme.

Forgive me. There are so many horrendous takes on here, jokes like this is indistinguishable from very bad opinions that some will sincerely defend as if it was something upon which their very lives depended.

 

[nial]

Forgive me. There are so many horrendous takes on here, jokes like this is indistinguishable from very bad opinions that some will sincerely defend as if it was something upon which their very lives depended.

The only horrendous thing there was that I somehow put a 5 after Boku no Natsuyasumi (probably due to Everybody's Golf 5...) when it's clearly the third game I'm talking about - and the fifth one doesn't even exist -. Fixed!

 

[OuterLimits]

No, because the Uncharted games were the only good exclusives. I borrowed a friends PS3 just to play the Uncharted games.

By comparison Xbox 360 had some amazing exclusives (and timed exclusives)

Oblivion
Bioshock
Mass Effect 1 and 2
Halo 3, ODST, Reach, 4
Gears of War series
Fable 2
…

Also most/all cross platform games ran better on the Xbox 360 eg Oblivion, Skyrim

Plus some 3rd Party games that eventually did come to PS3 often ran like shit compared to the 360 version. Sony did release some great 1st party stuff late in generation then.

Also arguably PS+ was much better then because online wasn't locked behind it. Sony was forced to put really good monthly games on service and offer really good sales to entice people to subscribe.

 

[Elios83]

Yes because they were able to build the best library of exclusives, third parties learned to use the hardware properly while Microsoft lost its way after the first two years focusing on Kinect trash and starting to wind down their first output except for Halo, Forza, Gears.
Overall 360 was better until 2007, 2008 was a transition/swapping positions year and since 2009 PS3 became the better system.

 

[Ogbert]

No.

360 and Wii had better games.

 

[deriks]

Wii had amazing games until 2010. 2011 and forward started to suck, but still

 

[Bass260]

Nope.

I lived through the days of Lair and Haze.

I remember when Heavenly Sword was the killer app.

Wii60 for life.

 

[Giallo Corsa]

No.

- Stupid price

- 1st controller didn't even have vibration

- Terrible online platform compared to Xbox live.

- Installs could take ages

- No games that interested me, always found the Uncharteds auto-pilot Marvelized games, couldn't give a shit about the weebo Jrpgs, Killzones were the epitome of "meh" when you could be playing the Halos, The Resistances were also meh.
GOW3 I liked, same with TLOU.

It boggles the mind how people consider it a better console than the PS4, heck, I've spent way more time with my PS5 (no games console®) than I ever did with my PS3.

To this day, the PS3 and the Wii are the worst, least used consoles I've ever owned (although the Wii was especially shit-tacular).

 

[EruditeHobo]

The only horrendous thing there was that I somehow put a 5 after Boku no Natsuyasumi (probably due to Everybody's Golf 5...) when it's clearly the third game I'm talking about - and the fifth one doesn't even exist -. Fixed!

Thank god.

 

[nial]

Thank god.

Thank god for the CECHA00!

 

[Bungie]

For single player yes but multiplayer/co-op wise no. I cherish that more personally, Nothing topped Halo, Gears & Fable co-op & that's something I always appreciated about the 360 even up to it's final days is that every 1st party game came with multiplayer in mind. Made releases within the friend group even more exciting as well.

 

[Varteras]

I loved the 360 early on. It was my console of choice right up until about 2010 or 2011. But I was impressed by how PS3 came back. If I could go back in time, I would have spent more time on PS3 instead. The Wii? Fastest I ever got rid of a new console. I think my turnaround time was 3 weeks on that one. Never looked back.

So, yeah. I'd say that for me the PS3 ended up being the best console of that gen in my eyes.

 

[Gojiira]

Its literally not a debate at all, rough start but by the end its library was absolutely killer and just like every other gen set it apart from Xbox. Fuck the Wii…

 

[ClanOfNone]

The one PlayStation gen I didn't buy. After multiple console failures between the PSX and PS2, I went with the 360 instead.
"My Xbox is rock solid, Microsoft really knows how to build console hardware!"
My Vulcan-like logic was flawless, the 360 was clearly the superior choice.

I went through three RRoD's and the fourth console finally lasted the remainder of the gen.

Picked up a PS4 at launch and the optical drive stopped working after a year or so, then I had the overheating issues after that.

I have shit luck with hardware.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Nintendo Wii had that gen locked up, ps3 made a comeback that's correct.

 

[Perrott]

FolksSoul, Everybody's Golf 5, Uncharted, R&CF: Tools of Destruction, Motorstorm, Resistance and Boku no Natsuyasumi 3. Sorry you fell for the "PS3 was bad in 2007" meme.

Not to mention the Japanese release of GT5 Prologue, as well as Heavenly Sword, Lair, Warhawk, The Eye of Judgment and Studio Liverpool's last Formula One title. Plus early PSN jewels like Flow, Super Rub 'a' Dub, Calling All Cars, Everyday Shooter, Super Stardust or PixelJunk Monsters.

The only way it could have been better is if Haze had not been delayed until 2008

 

[kevboard]

fuck no... I hate that fucking console. I hate turning it on, I hate the dog shit controller, I hate how awful its online features were, I hated updating games, I hated installing games...

there's nothing about it as a console that I like. using it was torture compared to the 360.
all it has going for it are a handful of exclusives like MGS4, Motorstorm 1-3, Folklore and Resistance 1.

 

[SkylineRKR]

That gen was weird. The consoles were unreliable as fuck during its first 2 or so years. Games often ran like shit too. But compared to now, there were a lot of great games actually. Like, complete trilogies of Gears of War, Mass Effect, Uncharted, Dead Space etc. Such trilogies of blockbuster releases you won't find within 1 generation of consoles anymore. Bethesda released 2 mainline TES games, and also Fallout as well as expansions and handouts (NV). Rockstar did 2 GTA games, Red Dead, Max Payne 3, several expansions, Table Tennis. Performance and hardware quirks aside you can't say it was really worse than now. Bungie had Halo 3, ODST, Reach. All great games. Naughty Dog UC1, 2 ,3, TLOU and Left Behind.

They also tried different things, like MS pushing DoA, Ninja Gaiden, 2 PGR games and Sony having Motorstorm (also a trilogy, btw). Not the biggest money makers, but great games.

The PS3 was very backwards in a lot of things. Downloads, updates.. sometimes I just shut it off because I wanted to play or show a quick round of insert game and was greeted by this shit. 360 was a bit more user friendly.

But anyway, 360 was absolutely the better system between 2006 and 2009. They had the benefit of being early, thus having a library and usually multiplatform games ran better on it such as those from Ubisoft. I jumped ship late 2007, from 360 to PS3 and during this period I often regret this choice. But during the back half of this gen the PS3 was in a much better place.