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Domicinator on 23 October 2009
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Impulsivity said:
leo-j said:
Sardauk said:
Domicinator said:
alera said:

PlayStation 3                         Xbox 360

XMB                                       NXE

PlayStation Store                  Marketplace

Home                                    Avatars

Trophies                                Achievements

Friends list                            Friends list

That view is way too simplistic:

This is a feature by feature comparaison but the quality and the functionality are way too different to be compared :

 

XMB is a functionality while NXE is an architecture.

PS Store is a web site while Marketplace is fully integrated

Home beats Avatars in term of goals (Avatars are still under-exploited atm).

Trophies and achievements are quite similar indeed

Friends lists is not the question but more how you interact with it.

How would you know? You havent experienced the newer PSN or PS3 interface.

The ps store is integrated, and MILES more organized,HOME beats avatars in everything, HOME is PSNs trump card in my opinion, and darn this stupid computer does not let me post apostraphies for some reason.  As for the friesnd list thing, PARTY system on XBL makes XBL superior period. That is a significant feature, and until PSN offers it, forget it, people will continue to pay for XBL

  You can party up in many games or in home to start games.  There are many ways to group up with friends, play games in said group and communicate on PSN.  There certainly isn't a 7 dollar advantage to the 360 party system which is really just a rudimentary chat room with netflix streaming if you're all shelling out the cash for gold and netflix.  

Exactly.

Most of my friends and family are playing on 360s, so I play with them on Xbox Live.  However, most of the gamers at my job are playing on PS3s, so that was a big reason I was excited to get one.  I have no trouble on PSN with reading my friends list, seeing who's on, and looking at what they're playing.  I can compare trophies with them just like I can compare achievements with my friends on XBL.  The only thing I can't do is yap with them while I'm playing something different than what they're playing, and I actually don't even mind that.  I don't like people getting on and bugging me when I'm playing a single player game that I'm really into.  I don't want to play Tiger Woods with you just solely for the fact that we both happen to be online at the same time.  And that probably means I don't want to voice chat with you either.  Though cross game chat would really come in handy at times on PSN, and I'm pretty sure that functionality is going to be added soon.  But for the most part, I do not use that feature on Xbox Live either unless we are all in the same game playing the same thing.

(just a side note:  Really, the biggest problem I have connecting with my friends on PSN is that they all seem to talk a big game about how much they play but then they don't play very often.  They say things like, "I'm totally going to be playing Need for Speed Shift all night tonight.  We should totally race!"  and then they never get on or they get on for like 20 minutes and then go to bed.  Lamos.)