The main thing that caused me to buy an Xbox 360 rather than a PlayStation 3 was the price, as it probably is with a lot of people. However, now I am starting to regret that decision.
To buy a 360 with HDMI, you need to get the most expensive version, the Elite, which is £200. On top of that, it doesn’t play Blu-ray so if you want that (and you will, eventually) add another £130 for a LG BD370, then you later find out how bad the media streaming is on the 360, something which you will probably also want eventually. Things like a complete lack of subtitles and surround sound audio causing the media to error completely rather than even play without sound or down-convert to stereo (on the same codec, AAC, which does work). This means you end up needing an additional piece streaming hardware. I chose the xtreamer for another €99 (£89).
Thats without even having any wireless options.
Total price comes out at about £420, compared to the 120GB PlayStation 3 Slim at £250. That’s almost double the price for the same, or fewer, features.
Thats quite funny, last week i got myself a PS3 for many of the options that you mentioned, the fact that it is blu ray, will eventualy be able to play 3d games + movies without any extra cost, plus less cd’s for those realy big games that need a lot of space. The 360′s dvd’s just arnt big enouth without you becoming a disk dj each time you want to play something. It has the 1080p output via the hdmi as well so its guna look better then the 360 as well.
Unfortunatly for microsoft Blu ray won the media war so they havnt dont so well out of it. but now its to late for them to add the feature because they will be ‘copying sony’.
The Xbox 360 Elite (120gb) does have 1080p over HDMI. This gives it a £200 price tag though; only £50 less than the equivalent (120gb + HDMI) PS3 Slim. On top of this, the PS3 is one of the best Blu-ray players out there in terms of features, speed and long term updates.
I expect the problem with adding Blu-ray support to the 360 is simply that Sony developed Blu-ray and won’t let them. They did go to the trouble of adding HDDVD support before.
ps3 = fat princess = george sell ur fucking xbox and buy a ps3 xD