360 versus PS3

[Luigison]

PS3 has some good exclusives but it seems kind of pointless to get if you already have a working 360.

I lost. 

[Chupperson Weird]

Self-pwn?

[Lizard Dude]

I'd lay off the red-ring jokes this soon after the 8001050F ApocalyPS3.

[Jake]

I lost. 

Self-pwn?

Everyone else would act like such smug *****es, it was hilarious yet sad.

I guess nothings really changed much huh

[Lizard Dude]

I remember when people said that they liked Xbox or PS2 and would be talked down upon for saying it.

You babies don't know what a real console war is. SNES vs. Genesis, that was a war. How soon the struggles of the Greatest Generation are forgotten.

[Black Mage]

That's because a lot of these guys were too young to experience the brunt of it. I can remember being in the trenches at recess, dodging the blast processing while interspersing rounds of mode 7.

Then we'd all go home to our bloodless Mortal Kombat. And that's how we liked it!

[Luigison]

I wasn't trying to make a joke.  I was just pointing out that I laughed at Jake's need to include the word "working" in his post.  I should have just came out and said that instead of just lazily typing "I lost".

The PS3 problem didn't affect me because I was out of town and playing SMB Wii with one of my brothers.  If I'd been home wanting to play it would have been upsetting considering that people may have lost some saves and/or trophies.  The problem was a time keeping oversight that a first year CS student should have been able to avoid.  Good thing it fixed itself. 

Also, if I understand the 360 problems with heat sink connections they shouldn't be happening on new systems now anyway. 

[Trainman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5g0bB6wP7E

This is what a 360 usually sounds like when running any ol' game.

[bobman37]

Actually, a 360 sounds absolutely nothing like that.

Yes, a 360 is a bit louder than other systems (my Wii scared me when I first played it, I thought it wasn't working), but a very, very small price to pay for awesome, awesome gaming.

Besides, if you install your games onto your hard drive, the noise goes away.

[Trainman]

Way to take the joke at face value there, bobman.

[ShadowBrain]

I haven't used my PS3 in forever--did that Error thing just come and go?

[Chupperson Weird]

I never even knew it existed.

[Toad]

I think Sony fixed the thing within the second day of complaints..?

I can remember being in the trenches at recess, dodging the blast processing while interspersing rounds of mode 7.

Then we'd all go home to our bloodless Mortal Kombat. And that's how we liked it!

Me too! I didn't participate so much as spectate. Fireworks are fun!

I didn't play any form of Mortal Kombat until it was on the GameBoy. Shame on me. I'm not big on fighters anyway, but I knew about them..

[Lizard Dude]

Sony fixed nothing. The glitch was based on the systems' internal clock erroneously thinking it was February 29 on a non-leap year, thus somehow making it think it was 1999 and blocking access to trophies, saves, and some newer games entirely no matter if you were online or not. Sony just waited 24 hours for the problem to naturally end. There has been no patch since the ApocalyPS3.

[Mr. Wiggles]

That was such a derp moment it amazes me how the PS3 userbase totally flipped about it.

Then again, all i ever play on my PS3 nowadays is Valkyria Chronicles and since that game has no online play or Trophy's it wouldn't have mattered to me if they disappeared or not.