Power Gamers Supply Xbox 360 Popularity
Though all videogame consoles would like to be the entertainment focus of your home, Nintendo’s Wii is marketed towards a more general audience (with which it has been wildly successful) while the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and Sony’s Playstation 3 chase the hard-core action-gaming crowd dominated by male teens and tweens, as reflected by Xbox 360 Accessories like an Xbox 360 Wireless Network Adapter. In matters concerning hardware, the Wii is outmatched by both the Xbox and the PS3, but it’s the software that makes a game console successful or not. Thus do Microsoft and Sony’s catalogs appear rather similar, as both are gunning after the same market with a similar number of titles with a similar range of genres and gameplay.
But serious numbers mean serious bragging rights in action-gaming, and it should also be remembered that, no matter what else is said, it is the hardware that drives the software. (Though no one boasts of their Xbox 360 Power Supply.) And thus it is that many may find the Xbox 360 and PS3 pretty similar under the hood, despite Sony’s much-hyped “emotion engine” said to render facial expressions so realistically as to make for a much more emersive gaming experience. However, each console does have its share of near-rabid fanatics who swear that major differences abound between the two. Yet it’s a safe bet that few, if any, would turn down a rival console given as a gift!
The real differences, in fact, concern those truly special features unique to each platform, as well as the different online experiences they provide. And Microsoft has a noticeably richer online experience than that of Sony, whose online service is not bad at all. But the Xbox 360 provides a more extensive experience in that department, though the PS3 does try very hard to make up for it with a built-in Blu-ray DVD player, WiFi web surfing, and support for Bluetooth wireless devices. To which it ought to be noted that NetFlix on-demand is available through the Xbox 360, likely neutralizing the PS3’s multimedia advantages. But the PS3 is extensively moddable by users with the technical interest, while Microsoft rather discourages such hobbyist tinkering under the hood.
Then there’s the issue of expenses, with the PS3 selling more than the Xbox 360 on account of its slightly greater number of features. Naturally, if you’re a hard-core gamer, prices are probably not going to be too big a factor, as purchasing decisions will often be made based on titles exclusive to each platform. Of course, the really hard-core don’t care about prices at all and would just purchase each one!
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