Sounds to me like hype and/or lack of quality in the product affected your judgement, not price. I ask you on the other hand, think of a game you actually did like. Now ask yourself the question I proposed. Is the game BETTER because of price? Being worse can just be your buyer's regret kicking in, which can kick in no matter how much you pay. You can receive the game for free and still feel burnt because of your time playing the game.

No.

I like the XBL party setup a bit better. Not $50/year better, or even $10/year better, but I like it. I like the 3D avatars hanging out, as opposed to perusing your friends list and noticing several pals are playing the same game. Cross-game chat... don't care. I have a phone for that.

PSN is better overall, due to no fees, in my book. The gameplay itself seems identical to me, and I'd rather have a bonus game every year, than a spiffy party feature that basically does nothing for me other than reminding me I agreed to game with pals earlier in the day, and that I'm always late. =)

If I wasn't tired of the Halo series, that might push me back to the XBL camp, but.. I am tired of it, and there are a lot of good MP exclusives on PSN now, and in the near future, that I want to play. My former XBL annual subscription already helped me play more games on PSN this year, now that the reboot button has been pushed on CoD, and several other cool online PSN titles are on the way.

YES . Value = PSN

The PSN is great, and I'm more than glad that I. don't have to pay for it

I never liked MS charging fee strategy and I think supporting Sony is the right thing to do.

I believe the PSN is superior due to price.

But as it stands, I care about neither. Most of my online playing is on the PC, and to a smaller extent on the Wii (mostly due to Mario Kart Wii).

Yes, by a lot for me. I don't have to worry anymore I myself and my gaming friends are all subscribed to XBox Live.

People usually hail cross game chat as being so great. For me that's not really crucial, I could use my laptop instead if I wanted and so this planned PSN feature doesn't have me excited and I doubt I will make much or any use of this feature in the future. For me dedicated servers are of far more importance (here the PSN is much stronger with its exclusives), it sucked to buy Gears, pay extra for online only to discover the online performance is poor even for tiny 4 vs 4 player battles.

With games like Warhawk, Super Stardust HD, WipeOut HD, etc, etc the PSN also provides far better exclusives. I used the free VidZone yesterday, that's also a cool extra. Playstation Home is interesting to visit every once in a while. BD-Live sometimes also provides nice extras.

That's just it.  The price does factor in to how much fun you can have with the service -- you effectively get one more game to play each year on PSN, than you do on XBL, if you're on a budget -- and because the gameplay itself is identical, that's a huge, huge deal.

Yes. It's free of charge.

lol at ppl claiming one is blatently better than the other.

look, both are comparable services imo, live has an edge in communication and community features but has an anual charge, but on the flip side some aspects of psn communication are better as in the standard messeging, ie you have a header when you recive a messege but overall live edges psn on these features.

but psn also has features live doesnt, like 6 player video chat, browser, vidzone, iplayer

so to sum up in all honestly they are comparable, if 1 user playes on ps3 more he will obviously use and enjoy psn over live, and vice versa.