Using the PS3 & Xbox 360 in 2017 #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin this might seem

like a weird comparison but there are a

lot of reasons why you might want to

consider picking up an Xbox 360 or ps3

and 2017 it might seem obvious to pick

up a ps4 Xbox one but only are they both

way more expensive than these guys but

they also like true backwards

compatibility so the Xbox one comes

closest as it does support some Xbox 360

titles but the issue is not is it not

the full library but you still have to

actually download the game even if you

do have the 360 disc you have a slow

internet connection that can take a

while the ps4 is even worse now

technically you can't play some ps3

games using PlayStation now not only do

you have to buy that and pay for every

month but it's also streaming is really

not the same as playing it on the native

console these are the final additions of

the consoles one of the nice things

about having such a long life cycle with

it there are not only three editions of

both the ps3 as well as the 360 there

are also years and years of great games

and they're actually both still

supported with a lot of their online

services this is the Xbox 360 II it came

out in 2013 and well is a pretty minor

improvement over the slend mostly we

just a little bit smaller and drop the

USB port but it is still the full 360

package the PlayStation 3 super slim on

other hand is a noticeably cheaper

version of the original ps3 now to be

fair it is quite a bit smaller and it

was a bit cheaper but the issue was and

says having a slot loading blu-ray drive

instead it has cheap feeling door it

just doesn't feel like quality or sound

like quality while by today's standards

the hardware isn't amazing it's easy to

forget that these consoles really were

the first ways a lot of people

experienced HD gaming if you've never

tried the ps3 or xbox 360 you're missing

out on a ton of amazing game the nice

thing is these are incredibly cheap

today so you're going to pick up a used

40 you like that ps3 it's only going to

cost you about $60 sure it's going to be

big and a little bit loud however when

you consider that these super slim with

a 12 gauge drive is about $100 60 bucks

looks like a great deal the 360 is also

pretty reasonable so you can pick up a 4

gigabyte 360 for about $80 or what's a

much better idea is to pick up something

like this 250 gig version which is only

going to cost you about 100 and is way

more usable what's easy to forget is

that you can pick up an entire stack of

games for these consoles for really

cheap so games like rise of the Tomb

Raider are about $20 make up a Red Dead

or

for 15 Forza horizon for 10 and real

classics like modern warfare 1 for 7 in

Halo 4 for $5 there is crazy crazy value

in getting a last gen console the real

question here is what is it like to use

an xbox 360 and ps3 and 2017 first off

we have the Xbox 360 this interface is a

lot better than it used to be so you can

go through all the different apps and

music and games and whatnot but more

importantly it is much much faster than

the stupid blade interfaces launched

with back in 2005 there actually been a

lot of major revisions to the Xbox 360

where it's that now is actually pretty

decent one nice thing about the 360 is

it still supports most of the major

video apps so there are a couple missing

but for the most part you have all the

basics like Netflix and YouTube

there's Hulu Amazon twitch look at the

crispy HD video for mr. Jimmy champagne

who may or may not be editing this video

right now and it's probably putting an

obnoxiously large call out to this

channel on the screen right now so here

we have Gears of War 3

and this is a game that well yes it

looks a little bit dated compared to

modern standards is really impressive

considering that this is running on a

console that came out in 2005 I look at

the light effects here this looks really

good for an Xbox 360 game next we have

the original Forza horizon this is

another games I feel like runs way

better than it should considering the

hardware yes it doesn't match up to

Forza horizon 3 running on the Xbox one

or PC but it's still a lot of fun I feel

like these are some of the best

open-world racing games ever to be fair

a lot of these games including Forza

horizon is actually going to be

backwards compatible on the Xbox one

they look fairly similar but there's

definitely something nice about playing

these games on the original hardware

next we have rise of the Tomb Raider

this is one of the last major triple-a

games that came out for the Xbox 360 and

it holds up surprisingly well seriously

it doesn't look quite as good as

something like falling down a mountain

for QuickTime events but it actually

holds up reasonably well compared to

something like a PC or ps4 next we have

the ps3 one of my favorite parts of this

console was always the XMB not only is

it super fast you can fly through a

middle E a lot of different menus one of

the cool things is it's all natively

1080p so a lot of the Xbox 360 stuff is

actually 720 that's upscale as far as

games on the ps3 first we have Gran

Turismo 6 it's weird to think that this

is the most recent Gran Turismo however

it looks decent

it might not be quite as nice looking as

Forza but it's hard to argue with the

physics and just how nice this game

feels to drive make sure we have the

last of us not only is this one of the

best games for the ps3 but it is one of

my favorite games ever it really does go

to show what they were able to pull out

the ps3 I know we keep saying this that

oh look the graphics look better than

you would expect this is really one of

those cases where you can really see it

they pulled every little bit of power

out of the ps3 a big reason for this was

the cel processor now it made the ps3

very powerful but it also made it really

difficult to actually take advantage of

that power because it was so different

which is why some games don't look so

grand ps3 but exclusive like this can

actually look really impressive thanks

for the power of the Internet both the

ps3 and 360 are surprisingly usable

today if you missed out on the full

decade worth of amazing games to these

consoles it's pretty cheap to pick it up

you should give it a try so what do you

guys think about these consoles in 2017

let me know in the comments below and I

will catch you in the next one