Xbox 360, Wii, PS3 PROS & CONS
By SathingtonWaltz 19 Comments
XBOX 360: Pros
- Excellent online service, packed with features
- Strong 3rd party game support, and good exclusive franchises
- Comfortable controller
- FULL Achievement support
- Custom soundtracks for ALL games
- FULL game installs
- Relatively affordable, depending on your internet situation.
- Headset comes with system
- Windows Media Support
- Good Warranty
- Decent Backwards Compatibility
- Aesthetically pleasing user-interface
XBOX 360: Cons
- Monthly/Annual fee for Xbox Live Gold
- Unreliable hardware
- Noisy hardware
- No built in WiFi
- Expensive WiFi adapter/accessories
Wii: Pros
- Good 1st party and 3rd party (depending on where you look) support
- FANTASTIC HOMEBREW
- Decent web browser
- Great weather/news services
- (SUBJECTIVE) Revolutionary controller (this is heavily dependent on the developer as well, some games control amazingly, some atrociously)
- FREE online service
- Virtual Console!!!!! =D
- Fantastic Backwards Compatibility
- BUILT IN WIFI
- Very affordable
- Intuitive and fun user-interface
Wii: Cons
- Almost non-existent online features
- Weak online infrastructure, un-intuitive friend code system
- Lot's of shovel ware!
- Weak first party multi-media support
- (SUBJECTIVE) Overpriced Virtual Console
- Waggle heavy gameplay
- Lack of Black Wii in North America (=D)
PS3: Pros
- Fantastic first party support
- Lot's of AAA exclusives
- FREE PSN service
- Reliable hardware
- (SUBJECTIVE) VERY comfortable controller
- BUILT IN WIFI
- Blu-Ray
- Decent web browser
- Great value/bang for your buck
- (SUBJECTIVE) Beautiful/Intuitive user-interface. Very slick and efficient.
- Amazing multi-media support/features
- Flexibility with hard drives (ie: you can buy a 500 GB hard drive and swap out your stock one)
- Support for installing other operating systems (fat ps3's only)
PS3: Cons
- Online service somewhat lacking compared to Xbox Live
- Incomplete backwards compatibility
- Partial support for trophies
- Limited support for custom soundtracks
- Expensive headset
- Lack of out of box headset
There you have it! Feel free to suggest anything I forgot to add, or should remove from the list.