mikrucio wrote:
the ps3 has more RAM. better processors. a built in next gen video drive(blu-ray) for out of the box 1080p video. and as always 1st party games from $ony are 10 fold better than 1st party games from M$. not to mention 10 times more 1st party games. The multi platform games this gen wont be as varied in quality from last gen. (NFSU2 is better on xbox than ps2 for example) So you decide. THE XBOX360 is LOUD! be warned.
Hate to disagree mikrucio but you'll find that the PS3 and Xbox360 have the same amount of ram, also the Xbox360 GPU is more advanced than the PS3s. If we're really being picky about things then it also depends on what you're doing with the CPUs in the machine. You can do things with the Xenon that the PS3 would struggle with and via versa, how relevent those things are to the game you're making is highly variable and dependent on the title itself.
As for console life-cycle, the Xbox360 launched more than a year ahead of the PS3 so yeah I'd expect a new version about a year head of the PS4 as well. That still leaves a reasonable 5 year mainstream dev life for the Xbox360 though and only about 6 years for the PS3.
Also you're paying through the nose on the PS3 for that next-gen blu-ray drive that no-one cares about or is using the space of. Whereas the Xbox360 has done the online things superbly and still doesn't require more than one DVD.
Personally I'd see what games the OP wants to play and if he wants to play game online, if he does then xbox live is a superior system to anything that the PS3 offers.
Andy
