I am finally hanging up the PS2 and actually going to get a more modern console. Any recommendations? Xbox or PS3. I was edging towards
The PS3 as online gaming is free, what is the best console to get?

Xbox 360 by a cricket score. Out of interest what is causing you to pop on one now, given the next generation is a few months away?

Sega Megadrive

No load times, no updates and no red ring of death.

(it also has blast processing).

Depends on what you want out of it. Do you want a Blu-Ray player? Do you play online much or just the occasional dabble? 360 has the best online capabilities, but IMO the PS3 exclusives are better. You may also prefer the PS3 pad seeing as it's a continuation of the Dualshock you're already using.

It does seem like an odd time to buy a ps3/360, given that the next iterations of at least one of them will be out by the end of this year.
If you're not bothered by that, then just go for the cheapest really. Both consoles, by this stage of their life cycle, will have a great and extensive backlog of games for you to try out.

Now probably the best time to get involved if you're a casual gamer. Next gen will take two years to start really producing anything special and all the current gen games will be cheap as chips. Considering buying a PS3 myself to compliment the 360 actually.

I can pick one up fairly cheeply now, and when the new generation come along the games will be cheaper. Not a serious gamer usually just spend an hour playing in the evening when the kids are in bed and the wife is watching soaps. My kids are still too young for games and the new generation will probably be out of date when I am getting pestered for a computer!!! Just want something affordable just to give me a bit of me time! (Much needed after a day with the twins!!)

Ps3 by a country mile. Better controller that you are already familiar with, reliable, free online gaming and you can play Blu rays on it. No contest!

Still got my PS2, will never give it up. Always nice to go back to some retro gaming now and again.

On a different note, started Skyrim over the weekend. Bought it when it came out, played it for a week, then never bothered with it. Started it again and can't switch it off, it's fantastic.

Glad I kept hold of my PS2.

San Andreas is still the .

Next XBox to be announced in a conference on 21st May.

Can't wait. I just hope they let more cats out of the bag for the initial reveal than Sony did.

Just remember how close this is to E3. I suspect they will leave the serious stuff until the expo, but you never know.

Microsoft will have to come up with something very very special to make me consider buying it over a PS4. I much prefer a 360 to the PS3 but it seems to me Sony have learn't from their previous mistakes, and the PS4 looks like a very impressive machine. We already know the Xbox won't be as powerful or have the exclusives the PS4 will have and the online of the PS4 seems so much more impressive than the current PS3. I fail to see how the Xbox could out gun the PS4. Even the controller of PS4 looks miles better than the current version.

Left it a bit late but I found a cheap ps3 on ebay and thought I'd give it a try after being on nothing but an xbox for the last few years.

Really liking the fact that I don't have to pay for using online services, Not signed upto psn yet but the browser is decent and all the rest of it.

Bought GT5 earlier although not had chance to play it as it's spent the last hour downloading what seems to be a ridiculous amount of updates. Just signed upto Lovefilm so I can rent games rather than pouring out money buying the,. Any recommendations on any ps3 exclusives I should try?

You get what you pay for, Live is infinitely better than PSN. If you don't actually use it, it's probably better for you.



The Uncharted series is the only really essential exclusive.

So you prefer the 360 to the PS3, but you can't see how the next Xbox can beat the PS4? All they showed off was the share button and the social aspect, which although a lot better than PSN now, is not that much of a quantum leap beyond what Live is now. Why won't the next Xbox have the exclusives? Sony revealed very few of those either. Which ones grabbed your attention?

The Sony reveal was pretty rubbish. Not that what they showed was bad, they just didn't show much at all. They did it to get in ahead of the next Xbox, but clearly held most stuff back so that they didn't give anything meaningful away whilst Microsoft still had time to change things.

Just started playing Aliens:Colonial Marines. Really disappointed. It's bloody awful

Wow, you paid money for that?I thought everyone knew it was a complete shower

GT will be worth all the updates



Other exclusives would be:

Uncharted series (3 games)
Metal Gear Solid 4 (plus the HD collection if you haven't played earlier titles)
God of War 3 (plus the HD collection if you haven't played earlier titles)
Little Big Planet 1 & 2
Heavy Rain
Ico/Shadow of the Colossus (if you didn't play them on PS2)
Killzone 2 & 3
Demon's Souls (predecessor to Dark Souls)

There are also some great PSN only titles such as Journey, The Unfinished Swan, Flower, and all of the Pixeljunk series of games. Journey is certainly worth getting, absolutely amazing game that has won an absolute shedload of awards, and rightly so.

Thank the good lord I hadn't! Am on Lovefilm

I like the look of Little Big Planet. Just added it to my rental list on love film.

Just starting out on GT5 and so far so good. Quite an enjoyable game, My only problem is that because I broke the controller I have a cheap crappy wired generic one from asda which is ok but as the analog sticks seem a bit stiff steering seems a bit trickier than it needs to be.

Anyone got any suggestions for a cheaper generic controller that's still decent? Preferably wireless. Don't want to buy on ebay as I suspect there are a lot of fakes knocking about, and even in cex they are wanting £36 for a used official dual shock 3 controller.

What is your opinion on it after coming over from 360? My PS3 tends to be used more often than my xbox, but as far as Driving/Racing games go Forza is king IMO, far superior than GT5, GT has fallen behind.

Never really played Forza tbh, But I did play a lot of dirt 3 and I really enjoyed that.

Both consoles have good and bad point's. Not used the ps3 much but part of the reason I got it is I was after a blu ray player. I only paid £70 by the time I'd fixed the drive so it seemed worth it. The web browser seems a lot better. And not needing to pay for a "gold" service to use Lovefilm and other online apps that I'm already paying for to begin with is good. Infact if the ps3 had sky go I'd probably never sign upto xbox live again. I only really used Live for sky go and Halo 4 which I have drifted away from now anyway.

As I get more games I imagine that with newer title's I'll probably be choosing the ps3 version over the xbox.

Good youtube app on ps3 now too