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Mac wuvs Xbox 360, not PS3? Uhh, no.

Posted Nov 25, 2006 at 3:44PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: apple news, DRM, EULA, Microsoft, SIXAXIS, Sony

Okaaaaay...

Someone must have rolled over in his grave when MacUser.com's Aaron Freedman wrote the following words: "I never thought IÂ’d say this, but it seems that Microsoft has a product that works better with the Mac than the Sony equivalent." He was talking about his observation that the Xbox 360 system meshes with Apple systems, but that the Sony PS3 didn't.

However, just looking back at our coverage of both consoles, and the comments to Aaron's article, sounds like he needs to make a revision of observation.

There's the observation that "the PS3 can't play music directly off the iPod." Uh, Victor B., can you help me out here? "... the 20 GB video iPod was recognized by the PS3, but you'll need to use the above-mentioned Display All feature to view everything on your iPod." (The "Display All" feature is simply pressing Triangle to browse through - and play - the content of connected media storage devices like the iPod).

And besides, as a MacUser commenter pointed out, both the PS3 and Xbox 360 won't play iTunes-signed music content. But then again, that's Apple's DRM, not MS or Sony.

Now there are things that the Xbox can do with Apple that the PS3 can't, but that's because of the one-year lead time of the Microsoft console, which gives hackers time to play with both devices. The 360 controller could be used with a Mac through a hacked driver and the USB cable, which we won't visit for all the potential EULA repercussions. Even Aaron admits that the SIXAXIS communicates through Bluetooth, which can, in due time, talk to a Mac as well (again, with all potential EULA repercussions). And the SIXAXIS has a USB connection too, by the way.

That's Aaron's admission: in due time, hackers will probably develop more drivers and code that will enable the PS3 to communicate with the Mac and iPod and God-knows-what-else, creating a very weird menage-a-troi lovefest electronica that neither MS, nor Sony, nor Apple would have envisioned (toss in the Wii and now we have a party!). Enough said.

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lol wow dude what are you smoking? the PS3 has almost no good exclusives. does it have Dead Rising? no. Splinter Cell 5? no. Gears Of War? no. Those three right there wipe anything PS3 has off the board. The PS3 is crap, and if you're really that dumb to buy a machine that EVERYONE thinks is a failure, be my guest.

PS3 + Dreamcast. Get used to it.

# haha — Guest 2006-11-26 08:40

How sad. Microsoft doesnt like the PS3. Apple doesnt like the PS3. Time magazine doesnt like the PS3. New York Times doesnt like the PS3. The media doesnt like the PS3. The only thing that likes the PS3 is Sony. I smell failure...

# haha — Guest 2006-11-26 08:45

# 20gb video??????? — Guest 2006-11-26 11:53

maybe thats the problem

# PS3 sucks! — Guest 2006-11-26 22:15

haha! maybe if they hadn't rushed all the games on the PS3 then it wouldn't suck such a fat one!

I'd love to hear some Sony fanboy tell me one game that looks better on the PS3 than on the 360...

# resident evil 5!!! — Guest 2006-11-27 05:08

i got an 360 for resident evil 5 (the best game) and when i got it i found that 360 has some sick games like:

gears of war

dead rising

resident evil 5

spliner cell double agent

and theres even a final fantasy comin!!!!

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