# Multi-platform games, how do you choose?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-platform-games-how-do-you-choose/528088>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [February 8, 2010, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-platform-games-how-do-you-choose/528088 "2010-02-08T01:09:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-platform-games-how-do-you-choose/528088/21 "2010-02-09T00:47:26Z")

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I go PC first if there’s a PC version, then PS3, then 360, unless there’s mention in reviews or otherwise that a particular 360 version is much better than a PS3 version. Mostly, I just like the PS3 controller a bunch better than the 360 controller. Keyboard and mouse come first, though, not to mention the potential to mod a lot of things on the PC, and the simple fact that niche strategy games are usually PC only.

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**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-platform-games-how-do-you-choose/528088/22 "2010-02-09T01:08:01Z")

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> [@TBG](#):
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> Wow, of all the systems that buying used/refurbed would be a bad idea, 360 has to top the list. Unless you’re hoping to find one with the old kernel version to hack or something.

Pish, [they](http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=bricked+wii&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) [all](http://gizmodo.com/5021399/playstation-3-firmware-24-bricking-some-ps3s) [have](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems) documented problems. The nice thing about having all of the consoles is that each gets 1/3rd the use. I swapped this 360 out with an infant mortality problem, and just recently replaced the DVD drive (now that I think about it, the infant mortality problem with DVD related.) The replacement drive was _$10_…granted, it required a little soldering on the logic board swap…but the price sure was right. Figure that refurbed units get tested harder.

(I have _zero_ desire to derail this into a ‘my solution’s better than yours’ debate.)

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