Haven't played with either yet, although my brother recently got a 360.
And he got one because of great advertising in my opinion, since he never was a fan of Xbox, always had a thing for Playstation.
Why the avdertising? There was a contest running here in Belgium where you could enter the codes you found on coke bottles into some site to win either a game for the Xbox 360 each hour, or one 360 console each day.
He managed to win all four games (he has a system) all on a different name because of course coca cola and microsoft are kind enough to only let you win once, give everyone a fair chance and ladida, but when I asked him what he would be doing with the games without the console, I thought he'd say he'd just sell them on eBay or something, since they were still sealed and about 40-60â'¬ in stores.
Instead, he decided it wasn't worth it and just went and bought a console.
The day Playstation does that, I'll congratulate them on their tactics, but so far, I've never seen it happen.
And since I know little brother isn't the only one who just bought the console, I know it works
I don't know if this means that Microsoft is smarter. I hope not.
I'm planning on buying a PS3 at some distant point in time, because Final Fantasy will be released on it. Probably the dumbest reason ever.
I don't care about online playing too much, so that's not really a thing I have to take into consideration.