12 months of Live can be had for $40 if you watch. When I came to college I had a 360, being tight on money at the time I sold it and got a PS3. PS3 was cool for a while, even though I always hated Sony since the crap fat PS2 that would never read a disc... Straight up, the controller blows for shooters. I dont know what genius designed the lower triggers...but they suck. The trigger clip-on things are a must if you want to use the lower triggers and not have your finger slip off every time. Also, almost every shooter uses the L1-R1 to shoot/aim. If you come from Xbox, this is extremely different and hard to get used to and about 90% of the games dont allow you to change it.
Moving on...I stayed with PS3 until this year when PSN died for a month. There is absolutely no reason it should have been down for a MONTH, Sony was very slow at giving information to the public on what was going on and missed many promises of PSN being back online so I threw the PS3 onto ebay and came back to Xbox. Another thing, Sony has the worst design EVER for the AV cable. I need to use that cable for headphones and the thing has broken on every Sony system I have had. I sent it back in under warranty for the AV plug and because the HDD died and they sent it back without even looking at the AV plug.
I have seen PSN go down quite a few times since the month of downtime, ever since I have had Xbox Live I dont think it has ever been down for large amount of time. 90% of the top games are on both platforms and the cost of live is well worth it, the controllers are nice and people actually chat on xbox and you dont have to deal with people using $5 bluetooth mics from walmart.
