Xbox 360 Elite Winter 2009 Lego Batman / Pure Bundle

When you buy a new console you have to think about the following: available features, past games, present games, future games, reliability, and cost of ownership. After some research and thinking, you will see that in the year 2009 and beyond, Xbox 360 is simply a bad choice compared to the PS3.

Features: PS3 wins

This Elite bundles gives you two cheap, mediocre games. The PS3 on the other hand, gives you a Blu-ray player, built-in Wi-Fi, 7.1 surround sound support, more advanced HDMI support, and more.

Past games: Xbox 360 wins.

Xbox 360 has better games from 2005 to 2007. This is because Xbox 360 has a one year head start and the PS3 presented early programming difficulties for developers. It should be noted, too, that games released in 2005 to 2007 now look old and dated compared to the likes of Metal Gear Solid 4, Killzone 2, and Uncharted 2 on the PS3.

Present games: 2008 to 2009: PS3 wins

Multiplatform games look a tiny, tiny bit better on Xbox 360, but the differences are so insignificant that game critics score PS3 and Xbox 360 versions the same. However, PS3 exclusives tend to look better, sound better, and receive higher critical acclaim. Uncharted 2 on the PS3 is now receiving a 97% average rating among 24 publications! In fact, PS3 has the two highest rated HD exclusive games: Uncharted 2 and LittleBigPlanet.

Future games: PS3 wins.

The PS3 is a more powerful console using higher capacity disks (Blu-ray) while Xbox 360 is less powerful and uses lower capacity disks (last-generation DVD). In light of current games and console capabilities, the PS3 has a brighter future than Xbox 360. If you want to play games with the best graphics, the best sounds, the most content (due to Blu-ray disks), the largest multilayer shooters, or the most MMOs, you have no choice but the PS3. Furthermore, if you want games that make you feel like playing a blockbuster movie (Metal Gear Solid4, Killzone 2, Uncharted 2, Heavy Rain ), then the PS3 is the best.

Reliabilty: PS3 wins.

We all know that Xbox 360 is still the most unreliable console in the market, Jasper or not. After 3 years, owners of Xbox 360 are more likely to have to pay for repairs than owners of other consoles.

Cost of Ownership: PS3 wins

Owners of Xbox 360 are more likely to pay higher costs for accessories: Wi-Fi, hard-disk drives upgrades, batteries for controllers. They also have to pay $50 a year just to play online. Paying for repairs after 3 years of ownership must also be considered. Microsoft seems to do everything possible to nickle and dime their customers. Cost of ownership is something you must consider if you want to buy this bundle for kids.

So all in all, this bundle does nothing to make Xbox 360 a better choice than the PS3 slim.
Rating: 1 / 5

For those of you who may not know, Xbox 360 is the most faulty console in the history of gaming consoles, over 50 percent of xbox 360 owners have suffered at least one console totally failing, in many cases more than that, if you want to buy a totally unreliable console that may break on you in 2 weeks or even 2 days (you never know, it’s like a ticking time bomb), then go ahead and buy this piece of crap.

If you prefer to have a console that’s built with high quality though, think about a PS3 or a Wii.
Rating: 1 / 5

The Xbox 360 is better than PS3 by miles but is no where near as reliable, fun or has as many good games as the champion the Wii. The Wii allows you to save all your downloadable games, movies, save games onto memory cards or Sd cards with xbox you cannot move anything from Microsoft’s iron gripped Xbox hard drive which is BS. The Xbox is slow, gets extremely hot for no reason, freezes, the controllers suck, the system itself fails in less than a year (I’ve had two fail each less than 9 months) and the only good games on Xbox I can get on PC with better graphics, controls and access to mods and extra content for free rather then pay Microsoft points every time I want an extra map. Xbox & PS3 are crap and are useless next to a good computer. Wii is the top rated, highest selling, most reliable, and required the least service out of all three consoles. 54.4% of Xbox 360’s failed their owners in any given year since release. PS3 was 14% and the Wii was only 1.5%. There you go.
Rating: 1 / 5

Jasper is still creating lot of HEAT and Fan is LOUD! This is sad. Fix it MS. I can play most of 360 games on pc anyway. I figure keeping it for media center ,but lousy codec support. I decided to buy a Media Box Player instead. Return don’t need it, MS back to drawing board. Add bd player too since my local library has bd for check out.
Rating: 1 / 5

I would like to grab an Xbox but all of the options are so bad. This bundle is 300$, comes with 2 terrible games, no wifi, and Xbox live costs more on top of it. So to get a couple of decent games, xbox live, and wifi (unless your TV is near your router,) you’ll need to drop another 200 or more dollars. Not a good deal. The arcade system is an even bigger ripoff.

Until they offer an Xbox 360 with wifi, Live, hard drive, and either good games or no pack-in games it is just really nasty cash grab compared to the everything-in-the-box PS3. All that and you still don’t have a Bluray player. A full 360 setup is going to set you back 500 or more bucks; just not worth it for a handful of exclusive titles.

If you are looking for an HD “does it all system” the PS3 comes with everything you need in the box. These 360 nickle-and-dime bundles hide the full cost. I just added up this bundle (with the throw-away games which add no value) plus wifi and Live in my cart and it was 410$ before shipping. A 120GB PS3 is 110$ less than that. No brainer.
Rating: 1 / 5