PS3 murders Xbox 360 with hot air
by Justin McElroy 
{ May 4th 2007 at 7:05PM }
When robotic lions get together, they form a robot that defends the universe. When the PS3 and Xbox 360 get together, they apparently sometimes kill each other. In the battle for 1UP Editor John Davison's living room, Round 1 goes to the PS3, smacking the 360's red-ringed ass to the curb. The truncated version of Davison's tale of woe goes a little like this: His toddler turns on the PS3 (without Dad's knowledge) while the 360 is on. The two systems share the same confined space, but Davison always opens the shelving when the PS3 is on, for fear that it would go nuclear. It totally does. But instead of shutting down, it blows out so much hot air that it kills the 360. He learned it from watching you, Dad! ... He learned it from watching you.
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Moe @ May 4th 2007 7:13PM
The triple gave the 360 the triple rings of death!
Triforceowner @ May 4th 2007 7:20PM
Who was watching this toddler of mass destruction when this happened? That's what I thought.
a dirty bastard @ May 4th 2007 7:27PM
thats the first time ive ever seen 4 red lights thats crazy ive been thought 3 360's 3RROD
PS3 sufficated the 360 with a choke hold
lol
bigd7387 @ May 4th 2007 7:27PM
But John Davidson is a total PS Fanboy. So don't you think he would make a case like this? John has done nothing other than work on writing for Sony Products, so Hello!
paranoidime @ May 4th 2007 9:58PM
Massive Damage!
Justin McElroy @ May 4th 2007 7:31PM
Actually, Triforceowner, he was just letting his kid play with the PS3 controller, pretending to play the game that his older son playing the 360 was on.
FrankTheCrank @ May 4th 2007 7:35PM
The 360 pushes plenty of hot air, it's called the XBOX division of Micro$oft. From Jay Allard, Peter Moore, Major Nelson and the biggest windbag ever, Bill Gates.
Can't ask for much more hot air than that.
Maybe some day they'll actually make a profit on XBOX.
Negativecool @ May 4th 2007 7:44PM
ROFLCAKESZPNEDMYGOD!1111
Agh...he learned it from watching you...Indeed sir, well played! *wipes tears from nostalgic laughing face*
GJM @ May 4th 2007 7:49PM
I guess Frank wasn't banned...
:(
Mike @ May 4th 2007 7:52PM
Must be a sign of things to come...
Pastor of Muppets @ May 4th 2007 7:56PM
"Un Film De Dr Dre"
LMAO
Snipehunter @ May 4th 2007 8:00PM
I love how the fact that the PS3 gets ungodly hot - hot enough to fry an otherwise normally decently cooled box (by the blogger's own admission, NOT mine) - is portrayed as Sony somehow "winning" something... What did they win exactly? The potential for a liability suit to replace his Xbox?
The heat dissipation on both boxes sucks. Much like the fanboyism from all sides of this so called console "War." Get a grip. Buy em both and reap the benefits of being able to play ALL the good games.
city @ May 4th 2007 8:01PM
It's John DAVISON, not Davidson. Also he's not a 1UP Editor, he's the Editorial Director of the Ziff-Davis Game Group. Show some respect.
Josh @ May 4th 2007 8:09PM
"thats the first time ive ever seen 4 red lights thats crazy ive been thought 3 360's 3RROD"
4 red lights means that the video cable is unplugged.
Smoke_Dawg_187 @ May 4th 2007 8:15PM
1up & EGM are so biased it's unbelievable. FUCK 1up.
Moe @ May 4th 2007 8:21PM
"1up & EGM are so biased it's unbelievable. FUCK 1up."
are you serious? you're obviously a fanboy because what you said didn't make sense at all.
Smoke_Dawg_187 @ May 4th 2007 8:26PM
What doesn't make sense about 1up being biased? You obviously never go to their site. Look at the load of BS they wrote about the 8 reasons not to get an Xbox Elite.
FrankTheCrank @ May 4th 2007 8:37PM
@8
GJM....dude...what's up?
You can be banned for having an opinion?
Let's be friend.
EvoAnubis @ May 4th 2007 8:38PM
Yeah, but . . . um . . all eight were valid points.
C. Grant @ May 4th 2007 9:31PM
FrankTheCrank: No, but you can be banned for trolling, and you've been warned. Bye bye.
hvnlysoldr @ May 4th 2007 9:47PM
Hey Grant, I'm sorry I couldn't get it sooner but I took two photos of the SNES VC top sellers from the June issue of Nintendo Power and sent them to you in my reply.
Man I can't believe it but I totally had all three Voltron toy sets. I had always thought there was only one Voltron and it was great. Then I discovered there was a vehicle Voltron and thought he looked familiar, but now I know the truth. I watched the entire series of Lion Voltron and most of the 3D one. I hope that Robot Taisen Generation with Voltron can make it over here.
Ratchet the Lombax @ May 4th 2007 9:56PM
I don't think that EGM is biased They had a picture of the PS3 being hit with tomatoes on the cover once and then they gave 8 reasons not to get an xbox 360 elite. They have probably said some thing bad about the Wii too but I don't remember right off the top of my head. So who's side are they on again I seemed to have missed it.
Anyway back to the topic at hand kids will be kids especially younger ones. I seem to remember my brother sticking a PB&J sandwich in my dads VCR when he was little, That was funny
waves @ May 4th 2007 10:13PM
Frank,
Bill Gates, "the biggest windbag of all"? That must be a joke. The guy is a downright nasty business man, but nobody ever accuses him of talking too much.
micheal82 @ May 4th 2007 10:43PM
It wasn't the hao air coming from the PS3, even though the turbines behind the PS3 blow out a lot of hot air. The 360 preformed Harikari becaase it realized that it was playing Cars for hours.
Questworld @ May 5th 2007 12:05AM
Was the PS3 even running with a game? I don't have one yet so I want to know if it gets that hot without running a game. Otherwise, I'd be justified to actually wait longer just so the system design gets some much needed reworking (i.e. to increase disc read speeds with a new disc drive, decrease power consumption, decrease heat generation, etc.)
Questworld @ May 5th 2007 12:06AM
Was the PS3 even running with a game? I don't have one yet so I want to know if it gets that hot without running a game. Otherwise, I'd be justified to actually wait longer just so the system design gets some much needed reworking (i.e. to increase disc read speeds with a new disc drive, decrease power consumption, decrease heat generation, etc.)
LAboy @ May 5th 2007 12:54AM
1up is full of sh!#. Everyone knows they are bias as hell. They're all a bunch of sony fanboys. The sad thing is that 4 red rings means that the tv cable isnt pluged into the system. Only the 3-rings means an error.
why not the LS2/LS7? @ May 5th 2007 1:14AM
Yo, MS fanbois:
The picture in the 1up article is just a stock photo. It isn't actually of John's 360. Same way joystiq puts a Snoop Dogg pic up even though Snoop wasn't actually on scene when John's 360 died.
If you think the 360 doesn't put out hot air, you're nutty. Both put out a lot of heat, the difference is the 360 gave out first. How you can convince yourself that somehow a flaw in the PS3 made the 360 screw up I dunno.
Anyone who thinks John is a PS3 fanboy must have missed him plugging Forza 2 4 weeks ago on 1up yours or the 4 weeks John and Garnett spent stating how much they liked Viva Pinata. It got by far more press than any other game on the show this season.
Cuja @ May 5th 2007 1:45AM
My friend's PS3 smoke his Sony Wega 34" XBR WS CRT twice in less than 2 mo.
Aberu @ May 5th 2007 1:51AM
"But instead of shutting down, it blows out so much hot air that it kills the 360."
More like the PS3 and the 360 share the same high temperature of air circulating in the contained area and the PS3 wins. Say it right pzl. You almost make it sound like the PS3 is some hot air gushing heatmonster.
Aberu @ May 5th 2007 1:52AM
@29 Tell him to learn2instructionmanual kthx.
Aberu @ May 5th 2007 1:57AM
@12:
Rank: 1UP Editor
Quoted from his blog page under his photo. Maybe that's where people get the idea he is a 1up Editor.
Daniel P. @ Jun 8th 2007 6:53AM
This fanboiism is so stupid, both consoles have problems with air circulation, and it's even funnier that everywhere i go, i tend to find that xbox fans are getting more more ridiculous with their comments, it's obvious that the xbox is a great console, and it's easier to make games for it and since it has about 1 year and a half advance in sales that the ps3 that it has bigger library,but hell both of them have their own problems, even pc's have problems sometimes... I believe John wanted to point out that it's funny that the consoles can't stand to be next to each other, just stop behaving like jack@sses