Assorted And Completely Unrelated Questions for my F-List

[first_seventhe]

1. Let's say Sev is thinking of asking for either an X-Box or a PS3 for Christmas. Tell me about both of them: pros and cons, games I can get, which you would recommend for someone who is kind of a shitty gamer anyway. Let's go!
2. I have a bit of code I wrote a while ago that could potentially be used for a fic exchange. I'm not sure it's going to work

Comments

[salarta]

I don't own a 360. I can't tell you very much about it and say I'm accurate. The main things I know are that you have to pay a subscription that's ~$60 per year to play online and have access to demos and such, but their marketplace updates daily. I had also heard that they make it really, really hard to end your subscription for Live, but they may have fixed that by now. Oh, and for some reason 360 seems to be a haven for all the "gurl gamers" to flock and advertise their existence as gurl gamers. I never see gurl gamers heavily advertising that they have a PS3. There are definitely women that play games on the PS3, but they don't heavily advertise the fact that they're female and play video games. Just an observation!

I have more I can say about a PS3. Playing video games online is free, unless the developer has chosen to make it a subscription service. The PS3 has backwards compatibility for PS1 games, but only some models have PS2 backwards compatibility, and all the models with that functionality are old, probably costly by now, and lower on the hard drive space. The good news when it comes to HD space, at least for those same older models, is that you can very easily switch out the hard drive in the PS3 with a laptop one, but you would need to remember to format the hard drive to FAT and have a device (e.g. flash drive) with the latest PS3 firmware. That sounds harder than it really is.

I could give a lot of suggestions for PS3 games if you got one. The PS3 has quite a few exclusives. Oh, and the PS3 can play Blu-Ray and DVD discs regardless of what version PS3 you get. Making best use of Blu-Ray requires an HDMI cable and HDTV, but Blu-Ray is definitely an option.

I'd like to say that I'm up for your code, but I already have way too many problems completing fics as-is, so I don't think I'd be able to handle needing to complete prompts.

As for what's up, same as usual and what I write on my LJ! And write whatever you want on yours!