On the Xbox, the achievement system is a way of tracking your overall progress through a game by giving you points or Gamerscore for all to see, these achievements are graded by difficultly easy achievement are generally given 5G and harder achievements normally given 100G or more but this isn't always the case.
Trophies are unique to the PS3 and is basically the same but instead of a score of points, it just tells you how many trophies you have, there are 4 types of trophies:
Bronze - Easy
Silver - Medium
Gold - Hard
Platinum - Getting all of the trophies
While this seems like a good idea, Sony, kind of dropped the ball with trophies because, the system isn't on all of their games just the later ones.
With Achievements, they give you something to play for, to have those bragging rights over your friends by having a bigger score than them or to have a competition to see who reaches a fixed amount first. You can't really do that on PS3, while Sony are catching up now it still isn't the same, apart from actually the game with your friend, there is no competition with them. But on Xbox Live there are some people who play the game just to get achievements and that ruins the game playing experience for everybody online.
So people on Xbox Live have to remember, Achievements aren't everything but your Gamerscore is and people on the PlayStation Network, good luck on getting your pretty useless trophies.
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