Why do internet forums hate the PS3 so much?

[Van Cruncheon]

or HURR PS3 CAME OUT LATER IT HAS TO BE BETTER despite the fact that the RSX is a bargain-grade graphics processor

[Van Cruncheon]

Oblivion, in almost disingenuously simple terms, yes. Truth is, for the average developer, it's easier to get good performance of of the Xbox CPU -- the CELL is a multi-threading nightmare with the current APIs Sony is shipping. But in two-three years? Yeah, the CELL will be probably be delivering overall better results than the 360 tri-core PPC. Xenos' superiority offsets that advantage, making the two systems largely similar in terms of real world performance -- it's just that one costs $600 to the other's $400. I guess if you REALLY want that Blu-Ray support, the extra $200 might be worth it, but I'll pass.

[TVC15]

I always thought 360 had a better GPU, but PS3 a better CPU?

Drinky said it better, but another way to look at it is that the two CPUs, although drastically different-sounding on paper, are close cousins.  They're 2 different branches of the same PPC family.  360 went with fewer, more powerful cores; PS3 went with more, less powerful cores.  In addition, 360 ships with better API.

[Van Cruncheon]

Actually, the CELL is completely out-of-order in terms of operation execution, and the bus doesn't exactly make thread synchronization easy.

[Human Snorenado]

ToxicAdam actually had a really good reply earlier in this thread, on the first page.

It's like an equation, where AWESOMENESS OF GAMES - COST OF CONSOLE = BUY ZONE.  Right now, I'm not seeing anything that's going to outweigh the cost of the stupid thing.

Also, the bonus bells and whistles of the PS3 don't do anything for me and lots of other people out there.  I don't WANT to move to a new media format for movies.  Why should I encourage that?  To my admittedly untrained eye, the visuals on the 360 are definitely in the same ballpark as the PS3, and I don't even own an HDTV yet so why get excited for stuff I'm not gonna notice until I plunk down a good bit of scratch on a new tv. 

And then there's the games issue.  Because of the time of launch and the fact that this gen is looking increasingly multi-platform, the 360 is pretty much ALWAYS gonna have more games for it that I want than the PS3, because it's built up a catalog.  I could buy a 360 and four AWESOME games for essentially the price of a PS3.  Well, who WOULDN'T do that?

[Diablos]

Im sure Diablos can refute all of that with ...uhh 'u guys am dumb scoff'

 

No. I just want to learn about the differences between the two. In case you didn't get the memo, I want both consoles. Quit being such a bitch.

[Fatghost28]

While I think it is either sad for Sony or impressive for MS that the X360 can stand toe to toe with a system releasing a year later and 100-200 dollars more technologicallly, what really pisses me off about the PS3 is how Sony had a year to copy MS on feature set and failed to do it.

-  Custom soundtracks - PS3 does custom sound tracks like Xbox1...360 lets you use custom soundtracks for everything (360 games, DVD movies, movies off the HDD, XBLA games, even Xbox1 BC games if you do the work around)

- Scaling - X360 has a good internal scaler.  Almost every resolution is supported, so you can always be in your native resolution.  PS3 has all these scaling problems with BRD and PS3 games...you'd think Sony, which also makes TVs, would have remembered most HDTVs out there look best when used in their native resolution.

[Bacon]

The Blue-Ray is also fucked on the PS3.

If I play BR movies, I need to switch the 720p setting I have for games to 1080i, and then let my TV scale the 1080i signal to 720p FURTHER degrading quality.

[AdmiralViscen]

Yea, that resolution scaling thing is fucking distinguished mentally-challenged. I love watching the Sbots try to spin it as a nonissue at GAF.

[brawndolicious]

-  Custom soundtracks - PS3 does custom sound tracks like Xbox1...360 lets you use custom soundtracks for everything (360 games, DVD movies, movies off the HDD, XBLA games, even Xbox1 BC games if you do the work around)

How do you do that?

[Mupepe]

-  Custom soundtracks - PS3 does custom sound tracks like Xbox1...360 lets you use custom soundtracks for everything (360 games, DVD movies, movies off the HDD, XBLA games, even Xbox1 BC games if you do the work around)

How do you do that?

Basically start your music player from the dashboard before you launch the Xbox1 game.

[brawndolicious]

Basically start your music player from the dashboard before you launch the Xbox1 game.

Ah.