Which Game Console Should You Buy? | Extreme Niche Empires

Both the PS3 and Xbox have their pluses and minuses. Much of the choice between them boils down to personal taste and what you really are going to use it the most for.

Gaming has advanced a great deal in the last few years, and many game systems now also become Blu-ray players and as products with which you may stream all kinds of Internet media content. The very best gaming consoles as of early 2012 are detailed below.

Sony PS3

The PS3 has come a long way in three years. It now starts at a reasonable $299 and has a more compact case and is much quieter. All the games which you play on the PS3 now are in HD, and the interface is extremely easy to use. It comes with a Blu-ray and DVD player built into it. Wi-Fi is built-in and it also has a large hard drive. In addition, it has output in HDMI and 1080p video.

Having said that, the PS3 does not have support for PS2 games and it does not have an infrared port. So remotes that are not Bluetooth are not supported. We also find that the online gaming and media options are not of the same quality as the Xbox, but the PS3 is getting better and better.

This device is 33% smaller and 36% lighter than the old PS3s. We find it to be a more pleasing gaming console than anything Sony has come out with before.

You can get a PS3 today with a 160 GB hard drive or a 320 GB hard drive.

Microsoft Xbox 360

The latest Xbox is slimmer and is much quieter when it is running. It also has a better cooling fan and a 250GB hard drive. It has Wi-Fi built-in and a whopping 5 USB ports. One thing we have definitely noticed with this updated game console is how quiet it really is. When it is idle, the 360 is just about quiet, and when the hard drive is running, you can hardly hear it. This is far better than the old 360s.

The 360 during the past has suffered from what some call ?red ring of death,? that has caused some people a lot of problems. The older 360s were not really good at heat dissipation. This led to the unit burning out after a year or two. Microsoft states that have fixed this problem in the new, slim devices. We also don?t like that you can?t swap out the hard drive if you want. Sony permits users to do this with PS3s.

We do find the 360 to be tops in online gaming and streaming of media, however.

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