Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) > Reviews (354)

Over the past year or so, there has been a lot of speculation over whether the Playstation 3 from Sony is better than the Xbox 360 from Microsoft or not. I believe the Playstation 3 is much better. The Playstation just offers a greater amount of brilliant features.

The only downside people pick out with this Playstation is the fact that it only has a 60GB memory. I think that this is plenty enough if you are just playing games and you only use the memory for save data, and I've never really had a problem with memory until recently. After Sony's hacking fiasco and the Playstation Network being shut down, everybody received 3 free games to download, courtesy of Sony. After I selected my 3, I started downloading them. I was a little worried about memory, but they all downloaded fine. After that, I went to start playing one of them, and it told me that there was not enough memory free. I was gutted. This, however, is the only downside to this Playstation 3, other than the fact that Halo games are exclusive to Microsoft.

Another great feature of the Playstation 3 (one that the Xbox 360 does not have) is an internet browser. This allows you to browse any website you want on your PS3 and instead of it being on you tiny little computer or laptop screen, you've got your entire TV to look at pictures and watch videos on the internet.

A further feature the Xbox lacks and the PS3 is proudly boasting is the Blu-ray player. This allows you to watch any DVD you want without having to go out and separately buy a DVD player, just like you would have to do if you owned an Xbox. A great new update for the PS3 also allows you to access 4 On demand, ITV player and BBC iPlayer so you can watched any TV show you missed, straight back on your TV.

The navigation of the PS3 menus and home page is very easy too. You can just simply scroll across to the part you want, then scroll down to what you want to access. It is very quick and easy. Also, these home pages are customizable with many different themes available.

The PS3 allows you to make many different accounts on the same Playstation, so you can each have you separate accounts for the games you like and this stops anybody from interfering with any statistics you have built up.

Another great thing about the Playstation 3 is the controller, very standard but very comfortable to hold. Simple and effective. Also, there is a wide variety of games out there that are exclusive to Playstation and there is also a brand new game and controller out for the PS3 called Playstation move which is very similar to the Wii remote and great fun to use, with many different games that are compatible with it.