Negatives and Positives of xbox360 and ps3

PS3:
Positives:

-Better hardware. It's a much more powerful machine.
-Better processing power
-Bluray disks can hold expansively more data than 360 HDdvd disks
-PS3 has 7 core processers, as oppossed to the Xbox360's 3 processers.
-Uses Cell proccessing.
-Standard HD
Free online play
-Able to install Linux

Negetives:

-Not a lot of great games.- System still seems to be developing support from the industry
-Third-party game support is almost non-existant (SONY relies primarily on its own companies and partners to develop games for it)
-The cell processer is too hard for developers to work with at the time.
- Online play is laggy, glitched, not as immersive as Xbox live.
- Most companies that previously developed games specifically for SONY are either making their games multiplatform or moving them exclusively to the 360
- Complete lack of RPG titles (The PS3 currently has around eight to ten)
-Very expensive (Around $100 more)
- Must instal games into the hard drive (Consumes hard drive quickly)

XBOX360:
Positives:

-Best online play available.
-Online play is cheap (About $45 a year)
-Wide variety of Shooters, action games and RPGs specifically
-Better third-party support
-Optional hard drives
-Much smoother interface
-Cheaper than PS3
- Far more exclusive titles
-More blockbuster games
-Recent price drop
-Optional hard drive installation
-Ability to access MSN messenger from console
-You will soon have the ability to have Netflix movies sent directly to your 360 via your internet connection and watch them on your TV.

Negetives:

-HDDs are over priced.
-37% fail rate in systems
-HDdvds are far smaller in capacity
- Does not have the processing power of the PS3


My thoughts:

While the 360 is a much weaker machine schematically, there are no developers willing to utilize the PS3's abilities or processing power. I mentioned that the PS3 has 7 cores and the 360 has 3, however not a single game to date has used even all of one of these cores to play, and I highly doubt there ever will be. The space on disks essentially means games made for the PS3 can be larger/longer, so some games ported to the 360 may take multiple disks.

In essence, the 360 is stronger right now in the area of GAMES, but is using its full abilities. The PS3 has yet to be tested by any game. So in the long run the PS3 MAY push past the 360 and leave it in the dust. But right now the 360 is where to go if you want games in the short term (Good games now. Rather than hoping good games will be made for the PS3)