Nemo Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 Xbox 360 The Xbox 360 is the second video game console developed by and produced for Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. As of April 19, 2012, 67.2 million Xbox 360 consoles have been sold worldwide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360 A list of ALL xbox 360 games. List of best selling xbox 360 games. Pros of having an xbox 360 (please note, this is subjective): -Performance of most multiplatform titles are better like GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Skyrim, Bayonetta etc. -Better controller in knowledge of some. -Better online experience. -XBLA. -cheaper than the cheapest ps3. -can listen to music whilst playing games. Cons: -Paid online. -Additional hdds are very costly, this can be bypassed by using usb drives for saving but its a chaotic mess to manage all those sticks. -Small List of Exclusives. -No Blu Ray player, as a result some games have more than one disc. -ALL xbox games are NOT region free, whereas PS3 games are. Useful tips: Xbox 360. You get a month of XBL gold for a new account you create on the console. You can do this three times for three different gamertags. Often letting Xbox gold run out is cheaper than getting a years worth of XBL gold. You get an option to renew your Gold account for 100 Rs for two months or 50 Rs for one month. This option seems to be timeless. Been going on for a year now. You can enable background downloads from the settings section of your console. This way it will download stuff even when its turned off. You can queue up downloads from the Xbox 360 website. Then just have someone turn on the console and turn it off in like 2 minutes. Useful for queuing up demos and games if you are in the office and you dont have to walk someone at home through finding stuff on the marketplace. Most 2.5mm headsets work fine with Xbox 360. You dont have to shell out for an official Xbox 360 one. You can use any run of the mill USB pen drive on the 360. Not sure about the size limit. Its either 16 or 32 GB. You can use a fat Xbox 360 HDD with the slim if you dont mind opening the case. IVG Xbox 360 FAQ. Xbox India website. Playstation 3 The PlayStation 3, officially abbreviated as PS3.) is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, with international markets following shortly thereafter.Major features of the console include its unified online gaming service, the PlayStation Network its multimedia capabilities, connectivity with the PlayStation Portable, and its use of the Blu-ray Disc as its primary storage medium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3 A list of ALL PlayStation 3 games. Pros of having a ps3: -Blu Ray player. -easily changeable HDD. -Free online (you can get paid subscription to playstaion plus membership but its NOT required to play online). -Huge list of exclusives. -IVG is a ps centric community, hence you can make friends here on the forum and play with them online, multiplatform games specially have a big, way bigger than xbox, community for ps3 here. Cons: -most multi platform titles perform poorly. -no option of listening music during gaming in most, if not all titles. -costlier than the cheapest xbox 360. -controller is not as ergonomically good as xbox 360's. -Huge update times, particularly game updates. -Horrible after sales support, worse than microsoft's in India. Tips for ps3 - Upgrading your hard disk is easy and cheap , doesn't even void warranty unlike what many people say . A simple RCA to aux converter , will allow you to use any 3.5mm headphone for FULL sound at as little as 10rs Pressing triangle while over a pen drive to browse its files ( According to the media you are on you can run the files ) , pressing x will only show those files in the required media folder in pen drive ,, PS3 has an optical input so it can also run 7.1 surround sound systems which 360 can't any pen drive works for backing up saves and media but it has to be FAT32 , not NTFS You can use ps3proxy to download stuff on your pc and then copy it to your ps3 if your wi fi is slow. If you have ps+ , you get new free games every month and sometimes mid month too. The store is updated every Tuesday . Ps+ users can auto back up their save files on cloud by changing it in the settings . The browser , even though bad , has flash and JavaScript both so works well with most PC websites . How to use a pc to download stuff to your ps3 IVG PS3 FAQ. Playstation India website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemo Posted May 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 List of must have titles for Xbox 360: #AAA- Halo series Gears of war series Forza series Shadow Complex Super Meat Boy Mass Effect The Witcher II #AA- Fable series Crackdown Series Condemned Alan Wake Project Gotham Racing List of must have titles for Playstation 3: # AAA- God of war 3 Uncharted series Ratchet and clank series Killzone 2 Journey Gran Turismo 5 Metal Gear Solid 4 #AA- inFamous series Resistance series Little Big Planet series Yakuza Motorstorm Heavy Rain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemo Posted May 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 ivg members' pointers welcome to update the buying guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceman™ Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 add gt5 to the list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemo Posted May 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchizoidFreud Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 F*ck Resistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceman™ Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 mass effect comes on PS3 too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemo Posted May 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 F*ck Resistance. i know its a f**k all series but its got good scores and people specially PSf**s will question why i have not placed a game revered so highly by interwebz mass effect comes on PS3 too not the original Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devil_angel Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 Off the top of my mind: PGR and AW on Xbox. LBP on PS3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Boss Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 Metal Gear Solid 4, Little Big Planet, Heavy Rain, Motorstorm, Yakuza must be mentioned. Also ICO and SoTC collection is one awesome exclusive. Also, if condemned is mentioned, then Siren Blood Curse is the one for PS3. PSN titles like Journey, Flower, Dead Nation MUST be mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aftrunner Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 Good stuff nemo. TBH I think you should just leave the list of games as it is. Otherwise you will have every person on the forum telling you to add his favorite game in there somewhere. Useful tips section would be nice too. Of the top of my head. Xbox 360. You get a month of XBL gold for a new account you create on the console. You can do this three times for three different gamertags. Often letting Xbox gold run out is cheaper than getting a years worth of XBL gold. You get an option to renew your Gold account for 100 Rs for two months or 50 Rs for one month. This option seems to be timeless. Been going on for a year now. You can enable background downloads from the settings section of your console. This way it will download stuff even when its turned off. You can queue up downloads from the Xbox 360 website. Then just have someone turn on the console and turn it off in like 2 minutes. Useful for queuing up demos and games if you are in the office and you dont have to walk someone at home through finding stuff on the marketplace. Most 2.5mm headsets work fine with Xbox 360. You dont have to shell out for an official Xbox 360 one. You can use any run of the mill USB pen drive on the 360. Not sure about the size limit. Its either 16 or 32 GB. You can use a fat Xbox 360 HDD with the slim if you dont mind opening the case. Someone can throw up some useful stuff for the PS3 as well. Edit Added a couple of more things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piper Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 One of the strong points on PS3 is that all game discs are blu-ray, hence more scratch-resistant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadoken Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 Nemo you can connect External USB HDD to the xbox as well , though i dont know if theres any size limit or something.You can easily access your digital content on any xbox by signing in to your gamertag. Although i think this is possible on ps3 now too? , since you can just go online and deactivate the ps3 you arent using. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemo Posted May 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 nice list afty. done. now some one please list some tips for the ps3 as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meaNmachine Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 Nice job Nemo In pros of 360 you can add : XBL cards are available in India for Indian XBL acc. (Microsoft points & gold membership cards) In cons of PS3 you can add : PSN cards not available for Indian PSN acc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarath Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 I did something for the PS3 like this > http://goo.gl/3hyiq You are free to take a cue or two Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sackboy Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 Pro of ps3 - Everything is standardised , so power cable ( normal 3 pin pc/tv/monitor one ) , hdd ( 2.5 inch laptop hdd) and controller cable ( normal mini usb ) are all normal ones so they are REALLY cheap .. Ps3 exclusives have really good graphics too.. Con of 360- A new power cable , controller cable , hdd will set you back by a HUGE amount.. And the multiplatform point isn't that big a deal as you still can play the game but PS3 exclusives is , they are HUGE in number , and is music that big a deal ? The only games I prefer my own music over soundtrack is racing games and most of those give the option ( in the menu , not through XMB though ) Tips for ps3 - Upgrading your hard disk is easy and cheap , doesn't even void warranty unlike what many people say . A simple RCA to aux converter , will allow you to use any 3.5mm headphone for FULL sound at as little as 10rs Pressing triangle while over a pen drive to browse its files ( According to the media you are on you can run the files ) , pressing x will only show those files in the required media folder in pen drive ,, PS3 has an optical input so it can also run 7.1 surround sound systems which 360 can't ... any pen drive works for backing up saves and media but it has to be FAT32 , not NTFS .. You can use ps3proxy to download stuff on your pc and then copy it to your ps3 if your wi fi is slow ( can someone link the ivg guide ? ) If you have ps+ , you get new free games every month ( 100% you will get at least 2 new ) and sometimes mid month too .. The store is updated every Tuesday . Ps+ users can auto back up their save files on cloud by changing it in the settings . The browser , even though bad , has flash and JavaScript both so works well with most PC websites . don't remember any more Also afty , 3.5mm headphones or 2.5mm ... Do you get full sound ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sackboy Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 Holy sh*t why didn't any of my spaces show up ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sackboy Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 Holy sh*t why didn't any of my spaces show up ? Edit:- if I put two enters , one shows up Also you shave said XBLA as if ps store is bad , ps store has amazing games like journey , flower , fat princess , pixel junk series too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadoken Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 PS3 has an optical input so it can also run 7.1 surround sound systems which 360 can't ... I dont know about 7.1 but 360 does have optical out , I have used it on my 5.1. Edit : And yes i just checked, Any external HDD works as long as its FAT32 . Best part is you can take your digital games anywhere you want , without having to download it on any other 360. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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