Sony Not Playing 'Catch Up' with Xbox Live Anymore

[Flame]

XanderZane said:

Tony_Parker said:
TheTruth : Please enlighten me, apart from cross game voice chat (incoming on PSN, I won't use it anyway), what exactly is so great on Live except paying a fee ?

- No Vidzone (Sony music free video clips, awesome when friends are here)

- No Web Browser (I guess they thought IE was not good enough)

- No Home (nice social network, I play poker every 2 days on EA Home Space with people from everywhere in the world, that's great, there's like 20+ spaces already on Home)

- No 64+ players game because Live is mostly P2P (MAG will allow 256 players)

- Adverts

- Trophies > Achievements (levelling, kinds of trophies...)

Live definitely has some things better than PSN, and some other things worse (see above).

I don't see what would make me pay for something I already have for free, and in some way better.

1) I haven't even seen any Music Video one on PSN. I can just turn on MTV if I want that and it's 100x's better.

2) M$ purposely doesn't want a browser on their game console. It's a GAME CONSOLE (play games), not a COMPUTER. Sony wants everyone to believe their PS3 is everything (computer, media player, game console, grill, etc..)

3) That goodness M$ will never create a HOME environment. It sucks. I can play poker on XBox Live.

4) FF XI is more then 64 players. Champions online will be more then 64 players too. So no, you're wrong.

5) Ad what?!?!? Do we care?

6) Trophies aren't in every game or every PSN Arcade game, Achievements are in EVERY game on the XBox 360. Acheivements win easily.

7) Online is never free. If you pay for your ISP, it's NOT FREE. So yes you pay something just like everyone else.

Response to 4). for xander

FFXI isn't under XBL. The XBL users log into Square Enix servers so you cant really count it as a valid point since the PS2 does this and the PS3 can do this under PS2 emulation of FFXI.

Xbox could have dedicated servers if the developers wanted it, so far not many do. Anyways 4). is invalid, just wanted to point that out.