Why is the PS3 so much more expensive than the Xbox360? Why is the 360 more popular?

Question

Why is the PS3 so much more expensive than the Xbox360? Why is the 360 more popular?

Answer 1

360 is more popular because it had a 2 year head start. PS3 is more expensive because it has many features, especially blu-ray, which is expensive. But 360 needs a lot of add-ons to have all the capabilities that PS3 has, and that would make it cost more

Answer 2

i guess cause the ps3 has got a bluray drive and now they are increasing the capacity of the hard drives on it

xbox 360, i dont know, well its cheap but it doesnt have a bluray player and has got a big hardrive.

Answer 3

the ps3 is more advanced

the 360 is more popular because its cheaper, thats the only reason

Answer 4

its more expensive because the ps3 has much better hardware capabilities. equivalent of a super computer. (hence the BLU-RAY. thats why everyone went crazy over it [including scientist] [citation needed])

its more popular because its CHEAPER!. and more games readily available right now

Answer 5

Well I mean this my opinion but, I think the ps3 is so expensive because it was blue ray built in. also wifi built in for xbox 360 you have to connect to live with a wireless network adapter witch can cost up to $100 if you aren't in range of your computer to just use a cable. I think xbox 360 is more popular cause it was first to come out and everybody wasn't going to wait another year when the could get this and not only that it there is a lot of good games for 360 that's my opinion

Answer 6

The 360 lacks the features PS3 has.

ps3- 80gb: $499 with MGS4 and a Dualshock 3

40gb (and cheaper 80gb) : $399

xbox 360(premium)- $349

(elite)- $449

if you want the accessories that ps3 comes with, that would add up to over 700 dollars, so that means ps3 is cheaper

xbox 360 pricing to match ps3's features:

$349/$449- console

$50- XBL subscription(only for 1 YEAR) pay $50 every year

$100- wi-fi adaptor

$200- HD-DVD drive add-on

$20- rechargeable battery kit

all comes out to $720/$820- add $50 each year you subscribe for XBL

and i believe the only reason it is more popular is because of the one year head start. if they were to come out at the same time, i believe ps3 would have more units sold.

Answer 7

okay its not that much more expensive. it's only $100 less and if you think about it, it's cheaper. the ps3 has built in wi-fi, that's something you will need to buy if you want to hook up to the internet wirelessly with an xbox. ps3 has built in blu-ray. this means better graphics and a cheap blu-ray player. ps3 has free online while with an xbox you need to pay $50 a year for online. added all the years you will pay for that, you should rack about $700 over the years of the xbox.

why 360 is more popular? because it's been out a year longer than the ps3. and being the first next gen console to hit the market, people always want the next best thing, so they pick it up and they imidiately defend the console. when the ps3 came out it was at $600, making people hate it even more, some people still think its $600. and also people think that it doesn't have any good games while this is obviously untrue because most of the great games on the 360 are multiplatform so the ps3 has them as well. the ps3 also has great exclusives like MGS 4 and it will be getting a load of great exclusives for the rest of this year and next. the xbox on the other hand is only getting some. so people like 360 more because they still are assuming things that were only true at the beginning of the ps3's life cycle. now that it has been about 2 yrs the ps3 has matured and become the best console of this generation, not by much but still better. and the people who constantly bash the ps3 really have never picked up a ps3 controller and started playing it, it would be nice if they tried it out because they would realize it ain't bad after all.

also its reigen based too. people in america like the xbox more but people in japan love the ps3 while the xbox is almost non existant in japan homes.

but i'm enjoying my ps3 just fine, so i don't care about what other people think of my ps3. and also its a great deal for what your getting

Answer 8

its cuz it has way more technology and better features, also 33% of xbox 360 break and only 0.2% of ps3 break. also ps3 has a blueray player and some blueray players cost of 800$ but u get one with the ps3 and the blueray player is very good. the 360 isnt more popular, cuz the playstations have been around longer than the xboxs and the ps2 has sold over 140 million systems and the orginal xbox sold  24 million.

ps3 is better cuz...

- ps3 has a blue ray player

-ps3 supports 1.3 HDMI which has rich colors and xbox supports 1.2 HDMI

- ps3 has much more and better exclusives, most of them cant go to xbox 360 because it cant handle that many data(DVD- 8.5gb, blu-ray 50gb)

- because of the blu-ray's huge space, ps3 will have WAY better graphics than 360

- online is free for ps3 not like 360

- you can browse the internet on ps3, no such thing for xbox 360

- when developers get used to the system, the graphics will be WAY better than 360. should take them a year to get used to it

- developers stated that they will start using ps3 as the lead platform and port ps3 games to xbox

- playstation home is coming out this spring, its a virtual community where you can hang out with friends and customize your own apartment which xbox doesnt have(FREE)

- ps3 is a true HD console. xbox 360 upscale games to 1080p and ps3 DISPLAY games up to 1080p

- built in Wi-Fi

- xbox 360: 33% hardware failure

ps3: .2% hardware failure(see the decimal? less than 1%!)

- ps3 has better back-comp except the 40gb

- xbox 360 already has been maxed out to its potential with gears of war. ps3 has not been maxed out yet- look at uncharted drakes fortune, better graphics than gears and its only 30% of ps3’s potential

- you can upgrade your harddrive without voiding warranties with any 2.5 HDD, which xbox cant because you have to buy a xbox HDD

(they actually have the step by step on how to upgrade it on playstation.com)

those are the ones that i know right off my mind but there are much more reason than this

Now I want you to do me a favor, list all the reasons why xbox is better than ps3. I PROMISE you that nobody will get at least 5 reasons

if you get ps3, look at this, you will be able to play metal gear solid 4, haze, killzone 2, resistance 2(60 player online!!!!), final fantasy XIII, motorstorm 2, little big planet, better version of GTA IV, god of war 3, uncharted drake's fortune, heavenly sword, ratchet and clank, SOCOM: confrontation, gran turismo 5, ETC- http://news.filefront.com/ps3-exclusives...

Prices as of today:

ps3- 80gb: $499 with motorstorm

40gb: $399 with spiderman 3 blu-ray

xbox 360(premium)- $349

(elite)- $449

if you want the accessories that ps3 comes with, that would add up to over 700 dollars, so that means ps3 is cheaper

xbox 360 pricing to match ps3's features:

$349/$449- console

$50- XBL subscription(only for 1 YEAR) pay $50 every year

$100- wi-fi adaptor

$200- HD-DVD drive add-on

$20- rechargeable battery kit

all comes out to $720/$820- add $50 each year you subscribe for XBL

ps3 features:

$399/$499- console

spiderman 3 blu-ray movie/motorstorm

online- free

rechargeable battery- built in the controller

wi-fi built in

blu-ray player(better than HD-DVD) built in

all comes out to $399/$499, oh my,look at that, its the same price as before

PS3 will win the console war, no doubt. Xbox 360 and Wii are so weak from technological point of view, that in couple of years they won't be capable of dealing with serious graphics. GTA IV, for instance, isn't even announced for Wii - this toy won't be able to cope with the game's requirements. Xbox 360 is getting GTA IV, however, the game is going to be released on several DVDs - Xbox 360 owners will have to interrupt gaming process and switch discs (Rockstar complained about this issue). Only PS3 will have it on single BD-DVD.

Let's compare PS3 and XBOX 360:

1). A third of XBOX 360 (33%) are malfunctioning right from the start. PS3 return rate is only around 0.2%. Despite some people say, that new 360 has no breakdown issues - just visit Xbox section of Yahoo answers and see for yourself an amount of complaints.

2). PS3 has 7 kernels in Cell processor, Xbox 360 -only 3.

3). PS3 uses advanced tech called Blu-Ray, one disc can store up to 25 (single layer) and dual layer 54 gb (in the future - up to 200 gb), Xbox 360 - regular dual layer DVD-9 (8.5GB). It's possible to get HD-DVD (max. - 30GB) for 360, but it'll cost you around 50$. Besides, HD-DVD had lost the format war with Blu-ray. Toshiba had stopped to manufacture them, Microsoft too.

4). Calculations per sec - PS3 - 51-billion-dot-product-operati... per second

Xbox 360 - 33.6-billion-dot-product-opera... per second

5). PS3 has full media support - USBs, built-in 4 slots card reader (except 20GB and 40GB versions), ability to use printer and so on.

Xbox 360 has USBs and only 2 memory slots.

6). PS3 supports up to 7 Bluetooth Controllers

Xbox 360 - up to 4 Controllers

7). PS3 - wi-fi included (except 20 gb version)

Xbox 360 - wi-fi will cost you around 100 $

8). From the first technical sight - graphics are stronger in 360 (it has a stronger graphics chip - Xenos), BUT PS3 can use it's Cell CPU for graphics too, which gives you better graphics in total. PS3 uses a weaker RSX chip, that was developed by Nvidia exclusively for PS3. RSX runs on 550 Mhz. It's difficult to compare their graphics, because 360 has a video chip with totally different structure and operating memory is divided differently in both consoles. Xbox isn't that versatile in dividing tasks between CPU and GPU as PS3. That's why PS3 exclusives look better than 360's exclusives.

9). Xbox 360 is widely known for so-called "red ring of death" problem - it gets overheated easily. My PS3 was running for more than 15 hours non-stop with no problems. Sometimes Xbox 360 becomes so overheated, that thermopaste on CPU melts, drips on motherboard and successfully shortcircuits it. That's why in some countries people call Xbox 360 "Coffin 360".

10). In 2008 PS3 will get more than 300 games, including Metal Gear Solid 4, The Agent and other great exclusives. Here is the good link to the future PS3 releases. http://ps3.ign.com/index/release.html......

11). PS3 online is free, Xbox 360 - you have to pay.

12). There were reports, that 360 scratches discs. No reports on that in PS3.

13). The funniest thing, that right now there are no games for PS3, that show full potential of the console. Biggest games weigh only 25 GB (Xbox 360 will need more than 3 discs even for those).

14). On PS3 you can install other OS, such as Linux Yellow Dog, Ubuntu and others. Sony officially lets you do it. There is no such thing in 360.

15). PS3 HDD can be replaced easily with any 2.5" SATA 5400 RPM HDD (used in laptops). 250 GB will cost you around 170$. In 360 you have to buy exclusive HDD, where 20GB will cost you 100$.

16).Sony expects PS3 to stay on the market for, at least, 7-10 years. Also Sony reduces price now. There is a cheaper 40GB version of PS3.

17).Sony constantly upgrades PS3 software (free updates for OS) - you get new functions and improvements.

18). PS3 controller (sixaxis) has a motion control - you move controller - game responds. Wii has it, Xbox 360 - doesn't. PS3 is getting rumble controller (Dualshock 3) on 15.04.2008, Japan already has it. On www.ebay.com I saw those controllers on sale 50$ and up (unofficial import).

19).On PS3 you can help sick people by running Folding Home project. Wii and Xbox 360 didn't even think about it.

20).New 40GB is 399$ or 399 euro (depends on the region) - it has no backwards compatibility with PS2 games, has 2 USBs instead of 4, no built-in card reader, but it's the same PS3, strong, reliable, less noisy, different cooling system. The price is friendly.

21). But, to be just, I'm not a PS3 fanboy, so (despite I own one) hear this - PS3 games (exclusives) are very hard to develop due to complicated Cell's architecture. We have to wait till developers will figure out how to develop games properly. Sometimes multiplatform games run not so good on PS3 due to the same developing issues - it's hard for developers to get a grip on such advanced technologies.

Answer 9

360 came out first

Ps3 has way more things than the 360

bluray

wifi

free online service

etc..

Answer 10

because it is better

Answer 11

The PS3 is more expensive because of the Blu-ray technology and 1.3 HDMI.  The PS3 is a better machine with better parts, so that's why you don't see the ring of death on the PS3.  360's failure rate?  About 30%.  PS2's failure rate:  .02%.  

Is the 360 more popular.  It has sold more than the PS3, but then again, the 360 had a 1 year lead.  If you look at the same time period between the 2 machines, the PS3 has outsold the 360.