Wraith: .
+PSN is free. Sure, Xbox live is only $50 a year, but it will run out, and if you don't have the money to renew it at the time it's up, you are downgraded back to silver and can't play online (I'm a bit bitter about this since my finances are tight for another 3 months and it JUST expired.)
Aliasalpha: Thats a bit of a non-issue since he already has a 360 and plays multiplayer (presumably online), he'd already have gold, just use the same account and you're laughing.
Wraith: +PSN has a large selection of classic games for download. I'm not sure the PS3 slim can play them since they took backwards compatibility out of it completely, but they have a larger selection than the Xbox originals catalog.
I so want to see the psn store for other countries, we have a grand total of 50 ps1 titles for sale (though I'm looking on the PSP at the moment so it MIGHT be excluding ones that can't be played on it but I was under the impression that they all could), still more than the 360's offerings I'll admit but its hardly a massive catalogue to crow about. The marketplace advantage will be determined by what hong kong gets
Wraith: Also, PS3's have less of a failure rating. On the standard models anyways, the slims are too new to know how they are going to last.
The newer model 360s have a vastly improved failure rate, sure it would have been hard to make it worse than the launch models but it sounds like they've learned the lesson about cutting costs in manufacturing and using shit components
michaelleung: I'm leaning towards the PS3 Slim, but if I see a decent deal on the 360 I'll go for that.
But really, PS3. Seems betterer.
You could aways shop around for the best bundle. I bought my PS3 at a shop that was bundling it with Batman which I wanted anyway. I'm buying a mate a 360 as a late birthday present and the shop I'm getting it from has thrown in a free copy of Halo ODST which I'm keeping for myself (he wouldn't like it and the box already has halo 3 & halo wars), saves me the task of hunting down a half price one on ebay (I doubt it'd have the replay value for anything more than half price but "free" is better!)
The 360's with the improved hardware are the Jasper models. The Jasper models, as far as I know, are only the Xbox 360 Arcade, and maybe the new elites, but I've heard some are still Falcon models which can still have a good chance to RRoD. After my RRoD, I bought an Elite with both Fable 2 and Halo 3 bundled in (Good deal for me, I didn't have either game) and it was still a Falcon model.
