'PSN will Have a Competitive Edge over Xbox Live'

[rocketpig]

Retrasado said:

rocketpig said:

ChronotriggerJM said:
I wouldn't be so quick as to think MS has all that much in the pipeline though :P 

3D interface, avatars, and XBL Community beg to differ. Sure, I think the avatars are pretty lame but MS is still working hard on improving XBL and the Dashboard.

I don't see Sony catching up to XBL any time soon. After all, MS is a software company and Sony is a hardware company. MS has a distinct advantage when it comes to this realm.

 

I would have to disagree. If you think about what the PSN was like even just 8 months ago and what it is today... And they show no signs of letting up the manic pace. Microsoft is not really adding anything revolutionary even with this update that ups the ante that much. I not be very surprised if Live has nothing that is better than the PSN within a year.

Also, as for your comment on M$ being a SW company, they haven't shown anything that would make me believe they are better than Sony at SW programming. (XMB vs. Dashboard? no contest. Also, and I can tell you this from long, hard experience: Windows Vista sucks.)

It's easy to play catch-up. It's a lot harder to push forward into unknown territory.

And you don't think XBL Community is a huge leap forward for the service? I sure do. Even if 99% of the games suck (and they surely will), there are going to be gems along with the shit. And those gems are going to be very cheap or free.

Show me another service opening up their standards and hardware platform to the public like that.

And as much as you may hate Vista, show me a piece of Sony software before PSN that didn't suck balls. Every piece of software I used by the company was a steaming pile of shit.