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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