Why do you have a PS3? What do you use it for?

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TheSlamma

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Sep 6, 2005
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I tried Uncharted 3 on a friends PS3.. man that game is bigtime linear in some sections.

They should call it Drakeons Lair
 

tdawg

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May 18, 2001
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Blu-ray, MLB: The Show, Uncharted series, inFamous series, media streaming.
 

sygyzy

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The only reason I have a PS3 at all is for the 1 or 2 exclusive games they have a year, like Uncharted. I used to say it's also because it is my blu-ray player but the fact is, I haven't put a blu-ray disc in there for at least a year. Soon I'll have a dedicated BR player. In the end, it was a very expensive investment for me to have the system. I prided myself on having all three systems (Wii, 360, PS3) but in reality, I only play on the 360. I actually think the other two suck, a lot. I sold the Wii. I am not sure why I don't sell the PS3. I guess it's because I am enjoying Uncharted 3
 

Adrenaline

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Jun 12, 2005
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-What exclusives do you enjoy the most on the PS3?

God of War
Infamous
Uncharted
Ratchet and Clank
Killzone
Resistance
Little Big Planet

-How are the media server capabilities?

Netflix works great on it. We have had no issues.

-Blu-ray. Come on, do you really use it?

We use it all the time. We have about 100 Blu-rays now.

-FOR THOSE OF YOU WITH BOTH SYSTEMS: Which do you use more and why?

We have a 360 and the only thing that gets used on it is the Kinect. We are on our third 360 and I would like to sell it but my wife and daughter love the Kinect so I have to keep it.
 

purbeast0

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Sep 13, 2001
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i use mine for exclusives, never multiplatform cause PS3 controller sucks compared to 360 controller, and PSN is LOL compared to XBL for online gaming.

i also use it as a media player to watch xvids and other videos.

i don't use it for bluray at all personally. i also don't use the backwards compatability at all either.

when i wanna play online, 360 all the way. when i want to play single player, ps3. ps3 has much better single player exclusives.
 

Karl Agathon

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I bought my PS3 in early 2008, when it was the most stable and fastest
Blu-ray player on the market. I figured that if I was going to spend that kind of $$$$ on a Blu-ray player (and back then they were very pricey), I might as well get the PS3 because of its many other capabilities. Every now and then I will buy/rent a game for it, but it mainly serves as my Blu-ray player. The 360 is what I do the majority of my gaming on.
 

zerocool84

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Nov 11, 2004
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I had a 360 but sold it for a PS3 Slim because I don't play games enough to warrant paying for XBL and I wanted a Blu-ray player/Netflix streamer.
 

prism

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Exclusives - God of War, Uncharted and inFamous.

Media Server - I tried using the PS3 Media Server program, but I had way too much trouble with it as it's not the most user-friendly program and I'm not very software-savvy. The PS3 does work great with Netflix, and I prefer its Netflix UI to the 360's.

Blu-Ray - Yes. I don't have a dedicated BR player.

Which System - I use the PS3 more for Netflix (unless I'm in my living room; then it's the AppleTV) but I play more games on the 360. All of my favorite PS3 exclusives are either single-player only or single-player-centric, whereas my 360 favorites (Haloooooo) have very robust multiplayer suites. However, I don't game much at all any more and only hold onto each system (including a Wii) for the rare exclusive that I want.
 

BadRobot

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May 25, 2007
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netflix
blu rays
ps3 games
ps2 games
ps1 games

in that order, my wife and kid use it more than I do unfortunately. If Sony could somehow steal kinect I wouldn't have an Xbox most likely.
 

Veliko

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I bought my PS3 for WipeoutHDa couple of years ago but I don't use it for anything other than playing blurays now.

The controller is rubbish and Sony really need to change the design.
 

Sulaco

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Mar 28, 2003
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Have all 3 "current gen" systems.

PS3 was purchased earlier this year, really only for the exclusives. MLB The Show, GT5, Uncharted, and Heavy Rain. I also enjoy some of the PSN downloads.

That being, I vastly prefer the 360. The controller is miles better and more comfortable, and XBL is a much better experience in every way.
I don't watch many movies, even fewer in BluRay, so that's not a big factor for me.
 

Via

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Jan 14, 2009
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I use my PS3 mostly to steram Netflix.

Lately I've been playing RE2. I saw that it was only $2.99 in the playstation store and I don't think I ever got to the very end (I never owned it and always ended up having to return it), so I figured it might be fun to replay.

I know games have gotten easier over the years but this was a total shock. It took me at least an hour just to get into the police station. Now, after 7 or so play sessions, I've gotten the hang of it again but it's is still fricking hard.

The graphics did hurt my eyes, but only for a short while. Now I don't even notice them anymore becasue the gameplay is so phenomenal. RE2 truly is a great game.

I think when I'm done I'm going download and replay RE3 and RE4 as well. I'm undecided about going back to RE1; I finished that game at least 5 times.
 
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-What exclusives do you enjoy the most on the PS3?
Gran Turismo and Ratchet and Clank are the two Sony exclusives that I would really miss if I didn't have a PS3, but I have a 360 as well so I'm not really forced to choose. That said, I never had the original Xbox, but I have scads of PS1 and PS2 titles, and since I bought my PS3 early, it still has backwards compatibility with basically everything. Granted, I almost never take advantage of that, but occasionally we like to have old school gaming nights at my house, and it's nice knowing I can fire up Twisted Metal 2 or Grand Theft Auto III and have it work.

-How are the media server capabilities?
I like them better than the Xbox 360, honestly. The PS3 integrates with Windows Media Center as well as the Xbox 360 (although it's a bit slim on codecs), and the Netflix UI is simple and intuitive. Outside of Netflix, I don't use either for much streaming, but the Xbox 360 does have the edge when it comes to letting you stream your own music during a game over a media server.

-Blu-ray. Come on, do you really use it?
Absolutely. It's actually the principal reason I bought the PS3 over the 360 when they launched. My roommate and I have around 500 Blu-rays between us, and a couple hundred more DVDs. The PS3 is better on every front than the Xbox 360 in playing physical disc media, from the upstreaming of DVDs to Blu-ray (which the Xbox 360 doesn't have; sure, you might be able to find an HD-DVD drive for it, but since they haven't made any new ones in years, you're going to have a severe lack of media). As something of a videophile, I'm biased in this area, but HD streaming cannot come close to Blu-ray at this point; what's the point of a giant TV with an excellent picture if you're just using it to display a sub-par source?

-FOR THOSE OF YOU WITH BOTH SYSTEMS: Which do you use more and why?
For media use, the PS3, hands down. Actually, I don't know that I've ever used the Xbox 360 for media (outside of music, and that's primarily streaming while playing a game). For gaming, it honestly depends on what's been recently released. I'm not a big console gamer any more, but Forza 4 just came out and I've been playing that heavily for the past month. My roommate has been playing a lot of Fallout 3 on the 360, but he also just got Heavy Rain for the PS3. I bought GTAIV on the PS3, but I got Red Dead Redemption on the 360 because of the image quality issues which were hotly debated on the internet. Generally, if I start a series on one machine, it makes sense to continue it on the same machine, since some games will give you perks for having previous save files. Ultimately, they're both on par with each other, and it probably comes down to exclusives. For me personally, the Blu-ray is the dealbreaker if I had to pick only one, but if you don't care about that, then I suppose it won't factor into your decision.

One thing I will add (although it sounds like this probably won't affect you): Transferring saves between systems. When I moved in with my roommate, we each had both systems; consequently, we now have two Xbox 360s and two PS3s in our house. When I was playing Gran Turismo 5 earlier this year, I could copy my save game onto a thumb drive and transfer it between systems in seconds; if he wanted to use the main TV, I could go up to the TV in my room and still make progress in my saved game. Piece of cake.

You would think the Xbox 360 would be just as easy, being that it's built by a company that specializes in PCs. Not so. When I tried to port my Forza 3 save over from his Xbox 360 to mine, everything got erased. I had a Level 50 driver profile and a number of livery paints and decals which I had spent dozens of hours on; all told, I probably lost 100 hours of progress or so. And it wasn't just my Forza 3 profile, it was all my games (fortunately I had only played a couple by that point, but I did lose all my GTA: Episodes From Liberty City progress as well). That was a giant pain in the ass, and it effectively means I will never try it again; I don't want to go through that hassle again. Which means that if my roommates are using the main TV, I can't play any 360 games on my profile without physically moving the machine (not worth it to try and disconnect it from the entertainment center). That's a huge red flag to me, but, again, since you probably won't be transferring saves between multiple machines, it probably doesn't affect you.

Overall, I use the PS3 more, but that's because our household is definitely more about watching media than gaming. For gaming, I would say you can't go wrong with either system. I like the Move more than the Kinect, but there's not any software out for either that I would say is a must-have title, and neither is really worth it at the moment. Ultimately, I'd say get the PS3 and keep the 360; I don't see a reason to get rid of one just because you get the other.
 

coreyb

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i use it to stream stuff off my computer, console gaming sucks to me so i have a stack of mostly unplayed games as well.
 

oogabooga

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Exclusives: I liked Mag, LittleBigPlanet, Uncharted, 3d dot heros for my Ps3 which I think are all exclusive titles. There are others (MGS, GT5, Resistance?, KillZone?) I think, but honestly I am still mostly a PC Gamer.

Media Server: Coupled with PS3 Media Server it is great. Then again, I think this software also works with XBox (DLNA and all that) - It's a capable media server, but AFAIK Xbox is equally capable?

BluRay: For sure! Main reason I use my PS3 since I don't have a lot of time for games and the time I do have I mostly use for PC gaming. The quality really is a lot better for films that benefit from it, and even things that don't persay (I love my Futurama S6 on Blu Ray).

Both: My buddies have both and I think they mostly use the PS3 especially for media, netflix, and bluray. The times they'll use the XBox is mostly for games they have on it. They tend to be split as the two guys who game own the separate systems, so they'll play cross-platform releases on whoever got it first for their system. They don't seem to have a PS3 Only! or XBOX only! attitude towards things and neither is a trophy whore so they're happy to save $60 bucks on new releases when the other guy buys it.


Overall, having a PS3 (and computer), I've never felt the need to get an XBox, but that's mostly cause my PS3 does everything I want to do as well or better since it's mostly a media machine for me that happens to have a few nice games with it.

Thoughts on the XBox
- I think Live is better than PSN, but PSN is free so for me that's a big plus (I don't really play online all that much for consoles).
- Kinect is probably better than move, but I don't know anyone who has either and have used neither of them.
- XBox has a nice catalog of exclusive games, but so does PS3
 

OptimumSlinky

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A lot of people have commented already, but I'll throw two cents in:

I bought a PS3 Slim for its Blu-Ray capabilities, and to see what some of the hype was all about (Kill Zone 2, Uncharted). Turns out, it was just hype (in my opinion).

Honestly, it collects dust except when I want to watch a DVD.

It seems to me that you either LOVE Sony exclusives, and can't imagine a life without them, or you look at them all and go, "Meh."

Your circle of friends also has a lot to do with it. All of my friends play on Xbox Live, so the majority of my major purchases (Battlefield, MW) are on 360 so I can enjoy the social aspect of playing with them.
 
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