ookaze said:
I understand your confusion, as the people talking about it are doing it mostly to try to convey value on their console. When people talk about online, they talk about accessibility and features, what you can do with it and how convenient it is. That's all. IMO, the best online is the one that is seamless. I remember the day when I accessed online at home with RTC lines. It was cumbersome, as you couldn't afford to let it on everytime. So I largely prefered the online at school, which was faster, but mostly its best advantage was that it was constantly connected. I remember my early days of Internet (1991), when I thought that it would never start as long as people couldn't stay on 24h/24. Internet usage exploded with broadband, not because of throughput, but because you could live it on 24h/24 without problem. When looking at gamers describing online, and what they describe as the best, is actually a geeky system that is yet inaccessible to others not in the know. As I see it, the best online is the one of the Wii, which is the only one that understands at least the basis of Internet usefulness. It's the only console that can be left online 24h/24 and uses this capability. Also, going on the Internet is seamless. It truely destroys both its competitors' online capabilities by far. Once it gets streaming TV, it will definitely let the two others in the dust. |
What do you mean by that. How are the other services not seamless, I don't understand what you are saying, and do you mesn 24/7
