Honestly, it depends on what media I am using. With games & Blu-rays, my PS3 is the most silent, with DVDs, I HAVE to run it on my 360 or it sounds like my PS3 is about to take off.
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Also it seems like the slim models get really hot around the fan right?
At first I thought it was just too hot in my room, but my 360 is surrounded by nothing obstructing and I even sat a cool air fan nearby. Still hot as lava.
No fanboy - they are both hot systems. I wouldn’t mind a weaker ‘new’ console that was low power and low noise. Having the loud ass ‘hum’ is annoying, and turning up the AC because of games is NOT cool.
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Yea my 360 Slim is loud as fuck. Both systems run rather hot, but the 360 at times sounds like a Jet Liner.
Fixed it.
My old 60GB PS3 is the loudest shit I’ve ever heard next to my friend’s 360 Elite, probably because it was aging though. My slim 320GB PS3 and my brother’s 500GB PS3 are both silent
If you gotta problem with noise cop a SNES or Genesis. Ain’t gotta worry about failure rates and when MS and Sony decided to pull the plug on us in the future(I hope not), they ain’t gettin through the security of a system that’s obsolete.
I’ve had 2 original 360s and they were both loud as fuck. I got my slim and it just sounded drastically quieter. That’s just my experience with it. I’ve never had a PS3 to compare it to. Though honestly no two xboxes are the same. Some might be louder than others. My friend has one from launch year that gets heavy use and never red ringed or had the disc drive take a shit like most did. It was the same way with the original xbox. Some of them caught on fire and some didnt. Who knows that might work to our advantage next gen. Some Xbones might forget that kinect needs to be plugged in
I had 8 fat 360 all of varying noise, current slim loud as shit unless I install. Had a 60GB PS3 completely silent, heard the fan like twice ever.
MicroSoft could use that as an ad campain “xbox360, each of them is custom made and unique, like a snowflake!”
So it recently occurred to me, granted this isn’t a totally fair comparison, but Microsoft’s DRM for marketplace items (full games or DLC) is just as strict or more strict than Xbone titles.
Say you downloaded games or DLC to your hard drive, and you wanted to play at a friend’s house. If you only brought the hard drive (or moved games to a flash drive) and his console isn’t connected to the internet, games revert to demo mode and DLC is inaccessible.
When connected to the internet, content functions as normal.
It’s not a fair comparison as DLC =/= full retail games, but why is it only now people choose to be up in arms about this?
Yo, both my ps3 and 360 sound like freakin’ jet engines. My PC makes less noise and it has all kinda fans and shit.
Did Microsoft enable comments to be made on the Xbox One reveal video on Youtube again? Lol
Good shit on Sony making that call, I know it’s “left to publishers”, but can’t publishers do it on this generation of consoles if they wish?
As long as they do nothing to enable publishers to add the DRM (ie. no adding something similar but going “But the publishers don’t HAVE to use it”) Sony have my money.
Sony’s plan with DRM is make the publishers the bad guy. This will put an interesting spin on Multi platform games with one requiring DRM while the other doesn’t.
My thoughts exactly. The non-DRM version will most likely be very attractive to consumers, unless the DRM version is significantly cheaper or has some other extras thrown in.
Companies are going to have to really consider if the extra revenue from the DRM is worth the likely loss of sales upfront. After all, making money from reselling games doesn’t do you much good if no one is buying your games to begin with.
This might create a situation where DRM games actually become less attractive to developers, causing them to focus their attention on the non-DRM version and the platforms that support them.
or all companies requiring it on both platforms. who knows?
sony skirting the blame will help them. i like how used games seem to be a huge deal for early adoptions, when probably no decent games will be used for a while.
Yeah… I’m getting the PS4.
All companies requiring it and giving consumers no choice in the matter is possible, but not probable I’d say. All it takes is one company to go “Hey guys, if we don’t use DRM I bet we can boost our sales upfront…”, and like that, competition rears its head and people have a choice.