Is the 360 better than the PS3 or the Wii or the Xbox or the PS2 or…?
This is a question that has caused the usual level of fanatical arguments and without even checking Amazon’s reviews, you can bet there will be people giving the 360 5 stars and saying it’s the best console ever and it’s 15 times faster than that other console… The simple fact is there is no easy or honest answer to the question of which console is “the best”. The most obvious reason we can’t make a true comparison is that final silicon doesn’t exist in the hands of developers (or even the system designers in the case of the PS3 and Wii) so comparisons at the moment are based purely on numbers. While Nintendo has avoided getting into a numbers debate so far, Sony and Microsoft are slugging it out with claims of one being twice as fast as the other in terms of FLOPS (floating point operations per second) and various other blatant mistruths. To dispel that particular myth, both companies based their floating point performance on the total peak FLOP performance of every processor in the
