Xbox 360 vs .PS3

[Vanilla]

I honestly don't think it's fair to count the recent PSN outtage in as statistics. PSN has operated nearly flawlessly since 2006, with the exception of the current one, caused by a rare albeit severe hacking attempt by immature teens *cough*anonymous*cough*, which again is caused by a Sony Lawsuit - It's not not like such scenarios happen on a daily basis.

Hardware wise, they are pretty equal. Although the PS3's Cell processor is capable of producing twice the amount of gigaflops than the X360's Xenon processor, the Cell's environment makes it very inflexible and hard to make decent use of all this with the current industry standards within graphics, whilst the X360's GPU is slightly superior to that of the PS3.

By now, I prefer neither and thus own neither, but if you'd asked me before the infinitely stupid PS3 3.21 update, I would definitely have said PS3 by a long mile, solely because of it's OtherOS feature, which would have enabled me to run Linux on it.

Although from a gamers and developers perspective, the Xbox 360 environment is definitely the best and most flexible.

But as always, In my opinion: A Good PC > X360 & PS3.