Which is the best console?

ifstar

The xbox 360 does not cost £50 a year - absolute nonsense. You will pick up a years code for £26-28 easily online.
Gears of War series on the xbox is fantastic, dirt cheap now and an exclusive.
You can have a play and charge kit for the xbox, allowing you to keep playing when your batteries run out (or just have a spare set of re-chargeable batteries).
There are some cracking arcade games on the xbox which are exclusive - Trials HD/Evolution, Minecraft
The 360 doesn't sound like a hoover. I have a 360 slim and I certainly don't hear it when playing anything.
The 360 doesn't have a bluray drive, however this may not be an issue if you may already have one.
The 360 controller is better.

Just to balance it out a bit.

Both are much and much the same, both are in their last stage of life but will go on for another few years but expect developers to aim more at the new consoles. You will still be able to pick up huge back catalogues for either console though without any difficulty. You should also be able to pick up a new 360/ps3 reasonably cheaply, probably more so in the next month or two once the next gen consoles are released.

techno12

I'd go for a PS3, if only for the fact that you get a shedload of games with a PS+ subscription (I paid £33.49 yesterday to extend mine by 15 months).

I have so many games queued up I'll never need to buy any at retail. Currently playing Assassins Creed 3, and the top new PS+ game available in a week or so is Far Cry 3.

I have a PS4 on order as well, and I don't intend to buy any games at all for it - I'll just play whatever's on PS+

(edit: having said that, I'm tempted by GTA V ;-)

duggan1

Erikhoff2 wrote: »

PC all the way (fanboys join me on this thrust of righteousness) :cool:

This is the right answer obviously

Consoles have their place though. The first thing I thought when I fired up GTAV on my spanking new PS3 was how terrible the graphics are

JohnStuart_2

trinity_enigma wrote: »

I'm thinking about buying dh a console for his birthday but to be honest we aren't massive gamers (but potentially could be lol).

At the moment we have a wii and have a bit of an obsession with the lego games but given that the new one will not be released on the wii it leaves us with a bit of a dilemma.

I was tempted by the WiiU (stick with what you know and all) but it doesn't seem to have a lot of games. So I was thinking Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 but which one is best? We will mainly rent games from lovefilm unless we love it and then will probably buy second hand so the price of the games don't really bother me too much.

Any advice?

Xbox but it doesnt mean PS3 isnt good, i think Xbox is better then PS.