Online play is not a fair reason. If PS3 fans cant use Blue Ray as a good reason, online gameing cant either. Has it ever occured ot you that many people might not play Online? I play online very little because all the people online are A-Holes. They curse left and right, and insult you if you lose.
But if you want to talk about online gaming, the PS3 is still no worse. It has FREE online. Xbox costs lots of money. Next month I will need to renew my live account and to do so I will be spending like 50 dollars for another years worth.
About these "problems" you mentioned, well, its free. You get what you pay for. I expect Xbox Live to be better quality for the amount of money we spend on it. But for casual gamers, free live is perfectly fine, even with a few problems here and there.
I thought the whole point of new games was to have fun with them.
True. But if thats the case, why not just play the cheaper Wii?
Its got fun games and the graphics are very poor in comparison with the PS3.
Why do companies make new TV's?
-To improve picture quality.
If the Graphics didnt matter, why do people have big fancey LCD or Plasma TV's for movies and games?
-To show they have money? I don't think so. Why buy it if you arent going to use it.
The Xbox 360 is nearly pointless if it had equal to or less quality graphics then the old Xbox.
Microsoft made a new system to improve on the old system.
Xbox gained:
-Better graphics
-Better games
-Live
-other cool functions
This is no different for the PS3.
The PS2 had good quality and graphics.
But now it has:
-Amazing Graphics
-Free live
-Few, but good games
-Blue Ray (xbox doesnt)
-etc.