$400 ps3 dont have bc which are the 40GB systems. $500 ps3 is bc but are emulation software. Those are the 80GB system but if your lucky u can get a 60GB system that is bc and it has the ps2 emotion hardware so thats the better of the 3 choices.
Decided to dig this back up for a new fresh round of discussions. I’m finally coming down with some cash and I STILL have yet to make up my mind on this issue.
Keep your PS2 if you’re still trying to play PS1/2 games. It’s probably the most convenient video game system ever made. Shit weighs like nothing. Only drawback is you can’t play on a lot of HDTV’s without lag but as long as you have an older TV laying around you’re good.
Yeah the old consoles are staying. But i’m trying to gear up for ST:HD SFIV BlazBLu etc… Still not sure which route to go.
I’m having sort of the same internal debate. Mine is whether to purchase SFHD and SFIV for PS3 or 360. I’ve got an MAS stick and a T5 stock with pelican adapters for PS2/3. No stick for 360 yet.
I’m probably just going to bite the bullet and get the games and a stick for 360. There’s just going to be more online competition (and a more streamlined interface) that way. If it’s one thing Microsoft has done a great job with on their console, it’s XBL. I’ve no problem paying 50 a year for it.
tough choice, i have both and i’ll probably get it on both and i expect the xbox to get more play but if i had neither i’d get the ps3 because of the blu ray, superior hardware and free online. I’m sure there will be many srkers on both psn and xbox live and we’ll be the only people playing the game 2yrs after its release anyway.
Microsoft recently dropped the price on the 360. So you can’t go wrong, and your saving some cash for other purchases.
It also has a great online service. Servers stay up with their games like Street Fighter Anniversary Collection which came out in 2004 and still has a decent community for it. The same can’t be said for PS’s online. After 2 or 3 years (Roughly) the companies usually shut down their servers.
Plus you can have a stick made for you.
There is no doubt fighting games like Blazblue will make it to the 360 as well. Companies know there’s a well established userbase outside Japan.
It would be foolish of them.
I’ve gotta say ps3 imho. Free online,backwards compatibility with ps2 fighters, get an adapter and use ur ps2 stick! As well as all the new fighters. The only downside is VF5 is not online. If VF5R comes out I am pretty sure this will change.
We may need to double check that. From what I’ve been hearing from people within my game design classes is that they are removing BC entirely from newly manufactured PS3s regardless of HD size. If so, that’ll really hurt the new PS3s for the American market for fighting fans.
Yeah the new 80 gigs have no bc.
seriously I could care less about online play for fighters if they don’t have a ggpo like netcode, but I think that’s about to change ''take a look at ggpo for capcom fighters sticky"
ps3 is going to get the fighters first in japan, if you hate to wait just import,ps3 is region free for games.
you can still get the MGS4 bundle,BC compatible before is sold out ‘‘hurry’’
ps3 is expensive but you pay for what you get:blu-ray,cell processor,bluetooth,wireless,multimedia features.
with 360s you just get RRODs
PS3. It’s gonna be the tourney standard. You can’t use good sticks on a 360.
DreamCastic.
i’ve got a 360 and i’m not at present too worried about missing out on any games.
the only things i think the ps3 will get that the 360 will probably miss out on are tekken 6 and maybe tatsunoko, since that might be going to wii and is sort of on the fence.
any other fighting game that’s going to matter in the coming year or so are going to be released on both consoles, at least in the states where it’s relevant to the majority of us.
so then, it comes down to which games you want to play that are console exculsive, which are starting to become a minority point. I got my 360 for xbox live arcade, where you can find a lot of good games for cheap.
controls are an important selling point however, as the official controller really doesn’t work for fighting games very well, compared to a ps3 controller which works a little better (although in my opinion not as good as a ps2 controller, i actually had a hard time getting things to come out when i went to go play on my friends system a little while ago). If you bought a 360 for fighting games primarily you’re just going to buy a stick anyway, just like if you bought a ps3 for fighting games.
all in all i think there’s no wrong choice here when you are talking about fighting games.
I’d keep my PS2 even if I got the PS3. The PS3 introduces input lag when playing PS2 games, which can throw off your timing in fighters.
Plus, as people have pointed out, backward compatibility has been taken out of newer models.
Totally the 360. Consider:
Pretty much ALL the new fighters are crossplatform, save for like, Tekken 6. In addition, 360 has some quality older fighters available via XBLA (UMK, HF).
360 has bitchin online play; always a plus. And KOF UM is coming along for 360, and will likely have online play absent from the PS2 version if you don’t live in Japan.
The newer model 360s are not anywhere near as prone to red ringing as the earlier models.
Cheaper!
So really the only pluses to the PS3 is that there are converters available for PS2 controllers, and that it’s entirely region free. And granted not having to buy a JP 360 to play some of those games before they come out over here is a plus, but I’d still give the edge to 360 overall. Plus if you’re into arcade shooters, it seems to be the system of choice for those developers, so there’s that too. And on the controller issue, if the SF4 controller is as bitchin as I’m hearing, then I fail to see how that’d be an issue for much longer. Seriously, man up and buy or make a new stick. I’ve got a DC one, a Saturn one, a Genesis one, a SNES one, and the PS2 one, and it’s not exactly killing me here.
Well… as a GG player, I am just waiting for Blazblue… And IIRC, it will be PS3 exclusive due to the lack of interest from Japan in the 360.
Also, I live in Japan, so I will play mostly in the arcades anyway. All I need is a training mode at home.
But if I was living in NA, and the games I want to play are SF4 and SFHD, I would go with the 360.
Im prtyyt sure its on the asain psn store but heh
Also the only thing thats keeping the choice open is the online, me personal I feel like online is jus for shits and giggles when I want real comp friends in real life are the way 2 go. and I dont think Blaz Blue will come 2 the 360
If you like fighting games (Like me) you should get a PS3…More Jap support and plus most of your favorites are already out for the Playstation plus fighters just suck online to much lag doesn’t matter what console its on
Only time will tell what games go where. Xbox users are safe on anything Capcom puts out. Blazblue is questionable though. Just get what you want. Youll be cool either way Im sure.