mibuokami said:
Live is superior because its more intergrated, MS had a clear goal when the created the service and executed their plan with very little hiccup. The PSN by contrast is an ambitious but murky concept that was never fully fleshed out upon its inception and had to be proded by consumer demand and pressure from their competitor before it finally arrive at what it is today. For that I give Ms much kudo, much as I dislike their policy no one can deny that they brought about the 'online' revolution to this console generation. I'm curious though, what exactly is your dissapointment with PSN? Is it purely base on the fact that it feels less intrinsic and intergrated when compare to Live? Or is their specific example you can quote? I'm not a very active Live/PSN member, I don't play online game very often and when I do, its usually with friend and on the PC, to me the most important feature of either service is the ability to play online. The additional bells and whistle are nice, especially the downloadable games but I've yet to expirience a true dissapointment from either service, both give reliable online play, provide extended content both stand-alone & for my purchased games and neither has given me any major headaches, the only major flaw I will criticise PSN for is the lack of cross-game voice chat function. My expirience with gold membership is kinda lacking though, as I've only sample 1 month of it from a free coupon that came with my Lost Odyssey... Perhaps their is something I missed? |
Yes. With Gold you can download demos one week earlier than Silver members.
