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Discussion in 'The Water Cooler' started by greatwhitehunter3, Nov 29, 2014.

  1. greatwhitehunter3

    greatwhitehunter3 Grizzled Veteran

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    Alright so I'm not a "gamer" at all but my aunt asked me if I knew anything about them for her kids for Christmas.

    What are the differences between them all? Just gb storage? I see almost everything is bundled too?
     
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    A ps3 is a ps3. Some have more storage capacity than others. The system itself doesn't change.
     
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    Get a xbox1
     
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    What he said.


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    Take them kids hunting instead.
     
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    I've had all the Playstation consoles except this last one, the PS4. I've been very happy with all of them and still play the Ps3 some. I don't play games nearly as much as I used to so don't know if I'll ever get a PS4 but I wouldn't hesitate to buy or recommend the PS3. Xbox is okay too, never owned one...always preferred the Sony platforms personally just because that's what I always stuck with. It's a Ford vs Chevy, Mathews vs Hoyt type debate and really a non-issue, it's all good.
     
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    Alright, I am still learning about bow hunting but I can contribute here. There are basically three top game systems pretty much the world over. Sony makes the play station. Microsoft makes the Xbox, and Nintendo Makes the Wii. Ranking them in order of which at best is somewhat subjective but will generally go with Sony and Microsoft fighting for top spot and Nintendo in third. Both Xbox One and Playstation 4 support Blu-Ray disc playback. Information on the web says that Microsoft is working on making the Xbox one able to play Xbox 360 (older version) games but that the update has not yet been produced and has no official roll out date. Playstation 4 does not have the ability to play Playstation 3 games. However, if history is any indicator, that may change. Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 were originally not able to play Xbox and PS2 games but were later made compatible due to large consumer outcry. The key in the short term is to look at the titles and on-line services available and make your judgment from there. Look at what you get for free and what you have to pay extra for. In the long term, whoever is backwards compatible first is the winner.
     
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    I was told yesterday at Wal-Mart that it takes 8gb just to download call of duty for ps3?
     
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    I do quite often.
     
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    How'd you end up liking farming simulator?
     
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    I loved it until I earned enough money to reach a certain point, then I broke the game wide open by buying windmills and took the fun out of it, lol. I don't know if real life would lose the interesting element if I had $200mln or not but I'd be willing to find out, lol.
     
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    If you download the game onto the console I'm sure it would easily be 8gb... If you bought the disk I'm not sure it would be that much... but who knows.

    My brother just downloaded the Halo Anniversary series on the Xbox One and it was a total of 60GB.
     
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    Alright, this is all new to me!

    One PS3 console bundle she asked me about was 500gb, controller and a Lego game for $230. Reasonable?
     
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    Very reasonable. 2 years ago I paid 260 for a 250 gig bare ps3
     
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    I would say that is reasonable as well.

    I love how the PS3 acts as a Blu-Ray player as well.
     

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