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In terms of sheer performance, the specs are as follows:

PS3

CPU

Cell Broadband Engine™

GPU

RSX

Memory

256MB XDR Main RAM 256MB GDDR3 VRAM

HDD

2.5' Serial ATA (20GB, 60GB, 80GB)

I/O

USB 2.0 X 4

Memory Stick/SD/CompactFlash Slots(60GB only)

Communication *Dr Egg*

Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T

IEEE 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi*(60GB only)

Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)

Bluetooth Controllers (up to 7 devices)

AV Output

Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p [576i, 576p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p(PAL)] *Time__Killer*

HDMI**: HDMI out - (x1 / HDMI)

Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1

Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1

Blu-ray/DVD/CD DRIVE "read only"

Dimensions

Approximately 325mm (W) x 98mm (H) x 274mm (D)

Weight

Approximately 5 kg Cell Broadband Engine

Cell Tech Specs

PowerPC-based Core @ 3.2GHz

7 SPEs @ 3.2GHz

512KB L2 Cache

7 x 256KB SRAM for SPEs

XBOX360

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU

  • Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
  • Two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total
  • One VMX-128 vector unit per core; three total
  • 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
  • 1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance

  • 9 billion dot product operations per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor

  • 10 MB of embedded DRAM
  • 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines
  • Unified shader architecture

Polygon Performance

  • 500 million triangles per second

Pixel Fill Rate

  • 16 gigasamples per second fill rate using 4x MSAA

Shader Performance

  • 48 billion shader operations per second

Memory

  • 512 MB of 700-MHz GDDR3 RAM
  • Unified memory architecture

Memory Bandwidth

  • 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
  • 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
  • 21.6 GB/s front-side bus

Overall System Floating-Point Performance

  • 1 teraflop

Storage

  • Detachable and upgradeable 20-GB hard drive*
  • 12x dual-layer DVD-ROM
  • Memory unit support starting at 64 MB

    *Xbox 360 bundle only

I/O

  • Support for up to four wireless game controllers
  • Three USB 2.0 ports
  • Two memory unit slots

Optimized for Online

  • Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features with broadband service, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, gamer profile for digital identity and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies or listening to music
  • Built-in Ethernet port
  • Wi-Fi ready: 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g
  • Video-camera ready

Digital Media Support

  • Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD
  • Ability to stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras and Windows XP-based PCs
  • Ability to rip music to the Xbox 360 hard drive
  • Custom playlists in every game
  • Built-in Media Center Extender for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
  • Interactive, full-screen 3-D visualizers

High-Definition Game Support

  • All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
  • Standard-definition and high-definition video output supported

Audio

  • Multi-channel surround-sound output
  • Supports 48-KHz 16-bit audio
  • 320 independent decompression channels
  • 32-bit audio processing
  • More than 256 audio channels

System Orientation

  • Stands vertically or horizontally

Customizable Face Plates

  • Interchangeable to personalize the console

And personally, I like the Xbox 360 better for the lineup of games. It's opinion really, as mentioned above, you're the judge of this.

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