Jo21 said:
I'm seconds away from firing up my PS3, but no. Live is still better. Is it worth $50 a year? That's your opinion. Here are the bullet points:
-Live has a visual representation of the people on your friends list. PSN just has a list of names. (and don't say Home's avatars. I have NEVER seen anyone on my friends list in Home......and unlike a lot of people, I enjoy Home a lot!)
-Live lets you see what your friends online are doing AND what your friends offline have done (example: Elgefe02 last seen playing Gears of War 2 seven hours ago....)
-Live lets you see and compare your friends entire game library and which games they have achievements in AND which achievements they've earned. PSN only lets you see Trophy supported games
-Live has cross game chatting (wich I've never used)
-Live has Netflix wich I swear by!! It is amazing to me!
-Live is connected to Xbox.com and Xbox Live Nation.com. If you have a computer and a gamertag, you can see the progress of and message an XBox 360 player.
-For me at least, using the exact same internet service provider, PSN games lag more and drop off more than the 360 counter part(s). (Super Street Fighter 2 is my only experience, although I will try COD4 later tonight)
-Live has scheduled Lady's nights, kid/family nights, co-op nights, and other multiplayer nights
-Live still has much more downloadable content than the PS3 (downloadable games, wallpapers, music videos, tv shows, movies, game add ons, demos, etc)
-Live's gamer profiles are WAY more in depth than the PSN's options
-ALL XBL games have leaderboards. I've spent a good amount of time competing against a friend high score without them even knowing it.
-you can see your FRIEND'S friends too. Madskillz is friends with Elgefe, but not me!? That dirty sunnovabits!!
In it's favor, the PS3's web browser is pretty damned good. I use it all the time.
Both are good, but the PSN is still a good bit behind XBL. Most of this stuff doesn't matter to a large portion of gamers. Both kick the Wii's online directly in the pussy. XBL has just been around longer, and has had time to get better.
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-Wrong, you have a friends list, that includes an avatar even if not visual representation you have home for that u can invite them over to your apartament/summer house, the name, if they are available or away, what game they are playing, also, a list that players you have meet in game which games, and a link to compare your trophies.
-same for PSN, also you can check that outside your ps3 in playstation.com, if tells you what was the last time they were online too (like 3 hours ago)
-as i said you can in the psn too, you have a "compare trophies" feature that lets you compare games and trophies. it show you the game u guys have in common and game that don't have in common too. with 50% of completition.
-same on the psn, you can message game ingame thanks to the ingame XMB, and it's blazing fast! unless you are loading something.
Text type messages. You can't chat with people while in separate games. You can't send voice messages.
-ps3 have blu ray player and a playstation store, not only that u can stream netflix to your psn and any file. you can install linux if you want to have PC - like experience.
XBL Marketplace has more content. Netflix is much easier to use via Xbox Live without having to use your PC as a loop hole. Have you ever used Linux? It really only has its uses for people who want cheap (free) software alternatives, and doing things in Linux is a pain compared to just doing them in Windows.
- PSN have merged with playstation.com a while ago anything you seen in the Friends Tab XMB u can see it there.
But you can't queue up downloads, purchase things, send messages, and the Friends tab just said when they were last on, not what they were last seen doing.
- thats not true, i play resistance 2 and lbp daily and no lag in anything, both use the PSN for it servers and have a deep integration with them.
Try playing a multi-plat game. Sony takes care of their exclusives, but not multi-plats which are forced to host themselves. XBL takes care of the Third Party Devs so games like CoD4 don't lag like they do on PSN.
-we have resistance thurdays, warhawk etc etc also, you can use playstation.co forums to arrange gamming session with players.
- they show the same things as today mentioned first reply.
- well resistance 2 have leaderboards, metal gear online does too.so in general shooters generally have leaderboards so?.
- friends friends like facebook? i think the its only thing XBL have PSN don't.
8 person party able to jump from any game, to anywhere, together, with dedicated voice chat that continues during all loading times, and even if party members are in different games.
but all this i mentioned above is FREE. it comes with PSN.
you are paying for it.
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