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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 high numbers allow bragging rights in action-gaming, and it must also be remembered that, in the final analysis, hardware makes software possible. (Though no one boasts of their Xbox 360 Power Supply.) And thus it is that many may find the Xbox 360 and PS3 to be pretty similar under the hood, no matter Sony’s much-hyped “emotion engine” said to render facial expressions so realistically as to provide a more engrossing gaming experience. Nonetheless, each console does have its following of die-hard devotees who insist 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 supplies a much wider experience in that regard, even though the PS3 tries very hard to make up for things through a built-in Blu-ray DVD player, WiFi web surfing, and support for Bluetooth wireless devices. To which it should be added that NetFlix on-demand is available through the Xbox 360, probably doing away with all the PS3’s multimedia advantages. But the PS3 is quite moddable by users with the technical know-how, while Microsoft tries to discourage such hobbyist tinkering under the hood.
Then there’s the issue of costs, with the PS3 selling more than the Xbox 360 due to its slightly greater number of features. Then again, if you’re a hard-core gamer, prices are probably not going to be all that big a consideration, because purchasing decisions will often be made based on software exclusive to each platform. Of course, the truly hard-core don’t care about prices at all and would simply buy both systems!