Xbox 360 peaked early on with more focus on the 'hardcore' demographic in their Live service and exclusive games. Then in 2010, they fell hard by pushing for the Kinect and casual audiences with TV applications which is basically the norm today. The PS3 definitely picked itself up following MGSIV and The Last of Us being its last major exclusive game in 2013. One of the few negatives I can think of is the massive PSN hack of 2011. This may have been a huge reason for why the PS4 changed to a paid subscription on PS+. I was a huge PS3 fanboy but I have started playing my 360 more to relive the classic exclusives that I missed out on due to not liking modern gaming so much.
I don't think Sony and M$ expected the Wii to have the impact that it had. Kinect was great tech, pushing it onto consumers with the Xbox one was a bad move on their part. I remember the PSN hack! That was a big deal at the time. The free games made up for it 😅
@@MAWK3 Imo I don't think console gaming ever recovered since the 8th generation. I completely lost interest with all the focus on updates, online only games, digital streaming, massive storage spaces etc. My PS4 barely got any play and is collecting dust. I'm sticking to my older consoles and revisiting the games that I didn't get to experience at the time.
People forget that the Kinect was a huge success. It sold like crazy, which is why MS pushed it along with the Xbox One, but the core audience wasn't there for it.
I recently bought a ps3 because the games were better then than now. Fallout 3 vs 76, Gta 4 vs 5, and Mgs 4 vs 5. I miss the old times when we didn't have to worry about buggy, unfinished, and predatory games.
The PS3 eventually selling ever so slightly more units than the 360 is Golden State throwing their 3-1 lead levels of comeback for Sony. It always was the better console, Sony just needed to step out of their own way and let the thing be the powerhouse it is.
It absolutely wasn't. The PS3 doesn't warn you when you're running out of space, and you can never fully use it's storage because games need to download AND install. The store wasn't ever good and only worsened with time. Having to cycle to numbers to set up an IP adress was so awful that I used it as part of my thesis on my UX/UI capstone project. I love the XMB on the PSP, but on the PS3 it falls short. Also, inferior performance on multiplat games because the hardware was a nightmare to program to. The Last of Us looks as good as it did because the devs optimized on the ASM level, but that's not feasible for most AAA projects when you're targeting multiple platforms.
If Sony didn't spend so much time smelling their own farts they could've made something that didn't drift developers away from the start with their quirky architecture towards the CPU. Making third party games performance abyssmal. But I have to say the Blue-Ray approach was a good decision, having to own multiple Xbox 360 discs for one game is ridiculous. It's the very reason Metal Gear Solid 4 isn't on the 360.
@@moister3727 MGS4 isn't on the 360 because it was paid for and, IIRC, distributed by Sony. It would've fit just fine on a couple discs, just like Wolfenstein: The New Order, Blue Dragon, Final Fantasy, and so on. Also, I don't get why people take issue with this kind of stuff. There have always been multi-disc games out there, even since the early 90's when the format was born. It's not like you have to switch discs every five minutes either, but just when you hit certain checkpoints within the games.
@@du0lolYou’re right mostly. Keep in mind you have to pay fees on each disc. Have to pay for printing and for each disc printed you pay for each copy sold to Microsoft. Microsoft relaxed these rules later in the generation as did Sony. Sony offered to pay for the printing on their system. Save some money and don’t pay fees? Easy decision. If Microsoft wanted it they could’ve done it. But didn’t.
I dont think it was absolutely the better console at all, they just managed to get better, putting out better dev tools and UI etc, while that dumb dumb who launched the Xbone also made the 360 UI and other practices progressively worse. Thank god he was ousted lol. Now they are both sides of the same coin as consoles, and just different services and approaches now (Xbox is basically PC and the console, while Playstation is its own thing with some ports to PC outside the Xbox ecosystem)
I'm a bit sad that the boomerang controller was cancelled. Most people haven't seen it actually in someone's hand. It actually looks brilliant and very comfortable. Instead we got the uncomfortably small and cramped dualshock 3
I was a PlayStation kid growing up and to be honest Nintendo won this generation by a landslide and it wasn’t even close. I enjoyed the home console experience but the most fun I had was soft modding my Nintendo wii and going crazy
3rd best selling console of all time ,PlayStation only has one entry in the top5 Nintendo has the majority. that gen in particular Nintendo won ,so accolades mostly.lol@@qwerty-dm8gr
Your speaking lie.. I was there when it released… if you put all the accessories at that time, the Xbox did it will be 900 bucks. Sony one on every level.
Almost? LMAO Sony absolutely lost the seventh generation of consoles. If it wasn't for The Last of Us, which came out on the tail end of the generation, it wouldn't have sold those extra few consoles to inch by Xbox's sales. The 360 carried that gen, while the PS3 lacked exclusives, received dubious titles like Starhawk, and got inferior versions of nearly every third party game (Bayonetta comes to mind).
Lacked exclusives....? lmao. Sony had already started their come back by the time Last of Us came out.. and when developers cared to use the better hardware the multiplats were better on PS3 (Mass Effect comes to mind). Your lacking exclusives comment is totally laughable though, like you're grasping at straws. Exclusives is what PlayStation does, that's the reason they had the comeback?? You even named one as the reason they sold a bunch at the end??? Like... Xbox biggest issue is lack of exclusives!? Are you in bizarro world? lmao
Wouldn't say the PS3 lacked exclusives. If anything, that was the main selling point for the platform. Resistance, Killzone 2 & 3, Uncharted, TLOS, GOW and Journey were all stand outs on the platform. 360 had Halo, GOW, Forza in comparison.
@@MAWK3 Remember the "Playstation has no games" meme? Thats from the seventh generation. Sony was always struggling behind the 360 with inferior ports and underwhelming exclusives. I mean, I loved Resistance, but nobody talks about it anymore. In fact, I was more into exclusives that felt like Sony failed to properly develop, like Siren and Twisted Metal. Other than Uncharted, none of the Sony exclusives felt like "must play" material, and couldn't pull numbers anywhere close to what you'd find on the rival platform. Killzone died. God of War died before it got rebooted. Infamous died. Journey also came out near the end of that generation with The Last of Us - which is the point I'm making. People think of console generations like races, but there isn't a finish line. Microsoft stopped running after years of success to invest on the Xbox One, and that's different than being outsold because you have a better product. Maybe if TLOU came out in 2007 it would've been a different story. In 2012 it was so late that they had to re-release it on the PS4 to recoup development costs.
i never got how people think bayonetta is such a huge dub for the 360. both versions have under 60 fps, both versions suck - they should have capped at 30 fps or dialed the game back.
Xbox 360 peaked early on with more focus on the 'hardcore' demographic in their Live service and exclusive games. Then in 2010, they fell hard by pushing for the Kinect and casual audiences with TV applications which is basically the norm today. The PS3 definitely picked itself up following MGSIV and The Last of Us being its last major exclusive game in 2013. One of the few negatives I can think of is the massive PSN hack of 2011. This may have been a huge reason for why the PS4 changed to a paid subscription on PS+. I was a huge PS3 fanboy but I have started playing my 360 more to relive the classic exclusives that I missed out on due to not liking modern gaming so much.
I don't think Sony and M$ expected the Wii to have the impact that it had. Kinect was great tech, pushing it onto consumers with the Xbox one was a bad move on their part.
I remember the PSN hack! That was a big deal at the time. The free games made up for it 😅
@@MAWK3 Imo I don't think console gaming ever recovered since the 8th generation. I completely lost interest with all the focus on updates, online only games, digital streaming, massive storage spaces etc. My PS4 barely got any play and is collecting dust. I'm sticking to my older consoles and revisiting the games that I didn't get to experience at the time.
People forget that the Kinect was a huge success. It sold like crazy, which is why MS pushed it along with the Xbox One, but the core audience wasn't there for it.
@@du0lol Oh yeah it sold millions but died in relevancy by the time the XBone was announced
I recently bought a ps3 because the games were better then than now. Fallout 3 vs 76, Gta 4 vs 5, and Mgs 4 vs 5. I miss the old times when we didn't have to worry about buggy, unfinished, and predatory games.
The PS3 eventually selling ever so slightly more units than the 360 is Golden State throwing their 3-1 lead levels of comeback for Sony. It always was the better console, Sony just needed to step out of their own way and let the thing be the powerhouse it is.
It absolutely wasn't. The PS3 doesn't warn you when you're running out of space, and you can never fully use it's storage because games need to download AND install. The store wasn't ever good and only worsened with time. Having to cycle to numbers to set up an IP adress was so awful that I used it as part of my thesis on my UX/UI capstone project. I love the XMB on the PSP, but on the PS3 it falls short. Also, inferior performance on multiplat games because the hardware was a nightmare to program to. The Last of Us looks as good as it did because the devs optimized on the ASM level, but that's not feasible for most AAA projects when you're targeting multiple platforms.
If Sony didn't spend so much time smelling their own farts they could've made something that didn't drift developers away from the start with their quirky architecture towards the CPU. Making third party games performance abyssmal.
But I have to say the Blue-Ray approach was a good decision, having to own multiple Xbox 360 discs for one game is ridiculous. It's the very reason Metal Gear Solid 4 isn't on the 360.
@@moister3727 MGS4 isn't on the 360 because it was paid for and, IIRC, distributed by Sony. It would've fit just fine on a couple discs, just like Wolfenstein: The New Order, Blue Dragon, Final Fantasy, and so on. Also, I don't get why people take issue with this kind of stuff. There have always been multi-disc games out there, even since the early 90's when the format was born. It's not like you have to switch discs every five minutes either, but just when you hit certain checkpoints within the games.
@@du0lolYou’re right mostly. Keep in mind you have to pay fees on each disc. Have to pay for printing and for each disc printed you pay for each copy sold to Microsoft.
Microsoft relaxed these rules later in the generation as did Sony.
Sony offered to pay for the printing on their system. Save some money and don’t pay fees? Easy decision. If Microsoft wanted it they could’ve done it. But didn’t.
I dont think it was absolutely the better console at all, they just managed to get better, putting out better dev tools and UI etc, while that dumb dumb who launched the Xbone also made the 360 UI and other practices progressively worse. Thank god he was ousted lol. Now they are both sides of the same coin as consoles, and just different services and approaches now (Xbox is basically PC and the console, while Playstation is its own thing with some ports to PC outside the Xbox ecosystem)
We didn't even get the PS3 here in Europe until March 2007.
amazing video man , really love your voice.
Really appreciate that thank you 😊!
One the reasons the price was cut was that they removed the ps2 backwards compatibility but all versions did support the original PlayStation
I'm a bit sad that the boomerang controller was cancelled.
Most people haven't seen it actually in someone's hand. It actually looks brilliant and very comfortable. Instead we got the uncomfortably small and cramped dualshock 3
As much as I loved the ps3 man the 360 just felt ‘better’
Very nice video. Quality content 😎👍
Thank you so much!! ❤
Great vid ,can we get more ps3
Absolutely! Thank you so much 😁
nice video very informative.
They came back like hurricanes tho
They really did pull a 180 half way through and came out on top 😁
@@MAWK3yea back when the gaming scene was competitive now PlayStation just blows Xbox out the water
I was a PlayStation kid growing up and to be honest Nintendo won this generation by a landslide and it wasn’t even close. I enjoyed the home console experience but the most fun I had was soft modding my Nintendo wii and going crazy
Then did they "win" anything if you had to hack your wii for it to be fun like????
3rd best selling console of all time ,PlayStation only has one entry in the top5 Nintendo has the majority. that gen in particular Nintendo won ,so accolades mostly.lol@@qwerty-dm8gr
Fucking awesome video
Thank you bro! 🙏
I skipped ps3 coz I was a cod zombies player
Amazing video!
Thank you so much! Glad your liked it 😁
Your speaking lie.. I was there when it released… if you put all the accessories at that time, the Xbox did it will be 900 bucks. Sony one on every level.
Almost? LMAO Sony absolutely lost the seventh generation of consoles. If it wasn't for The Last of Us, which came out on the tail end of the generation, it wouldn't have sold those extra few consoles to inch by Xbox's sales. The 360 carried that gen, while the PS3 lacked exclusives, received dubious titles like Starhawk, and got inferior versions of nearly every third party game (Bayonetta comes to mind).
Lacked exclusives....? lmao. Sony had already started their come back by the time Last of Us came out.. and when developers cared to use the better hardware the multiplats were better on PS3 (Mass Effect comes to mind). Your lacking exclusives comment is totally laughable though, like you're grasping at straws. Exclusives is what PlayStation does, that's the reason they had the comeback?? You even named one as the reason they sold a bunch at the end??? Like... Xbox biggest issue is lack of exclusives!? Are you in bizarro world? lmao
Wouldn't say the PS3 lacked exclusives. If anything, that was the main selling point for the platform.
Resistance, Killzone 2 & 3, Uncharted, TLOS, GOW and Journey were all stand outs on the platform.
360 had Halo, GOW, Forza in comparison.
@@MAWK3 Remember the "Playstation has no games" meme? Thats from the seventh generation. Sony was always struggling behind the 360 with inferior ports and underwhelming exclusives. I mean, I loved Resistance, but nobody talks about it anymore. In fact, I was more into exclusives that felt like Sony failed to properly develop, like Siren and Twisted Metal. Other than Uncharted, none of the Sony exclusives felt like "must play" material, and couldn't pull numbers anywhere close to what you'd find on the rival platform. Killzone died. God of War died before it got rebooted. Infamous died. Journey also came out near the end of that generation with The Last of Us - which is the point I'm making.
People think of console generations like races, but there isn't a finish line. Microsoft stopped running after years of success to invest on the Xbox One, and that's different than being outsold because you have a better product. Maybe if TLOU came out in 2007 it would've been a different story. In 2012 it was so late that they had to re-release it on the PS4 to recoup development costs.
i never got how people think bayonetta is such a huge dub for the 360. both versions have under 60 fps, both versions suck - they should have capped at 30 fps or dialed the game back.
@@dmer-zy3rb It runs fine on the 360, even if it doesn't always hit the 30fps target. It's a slideshow on the PS3.