Engadget says: Xbox 360 Helped Define The Decade

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FKNetwork said:

Xoj said:

Squilliam said:

How exactly is it better online? Does the PC have a unified online system? Does it have unified friends lists? Does it have seamless integration of voice chat, by this I mean every game and totally noob friendly to use. The way I see it, the PC online system is very fragmented and to keep up with it all you need multiple programs like MSN, Skype, ventrillo, xfire, steam etc and not to mention the games which roll their own service. Furthermore many of these programs conflict with each other like for instance steam and ventrillo. Whilst I may not be a pro gamer on the PC my friend who was a top 20 player in AOE3 was and that was his life.

I can see how someone can say that the PC service can be individually better but you can't call it as consistant nor as easy to use as the Xbox Live service.

steam.

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You have to be joking lol, steam is rather poor (a rubbish attempt at live/psn), with a few improvements it could be superb though I guess lol

Steam is at first and foremost a vendor platform. However Steam de sin fact have coice chat for anyone who is using it, if you launch games from steam then you even have cross game voice chat. The point is that it is possible.

The thing is the online is free and as far as gaming goes far far better. How about mods to games? Tere are hundreds and hudreds and hudereds of mods for any game that's able to be modded. Then you talk about service, but really can any service honetly beat what a good ol' Firefox brows, or hell even IE, can offer you? I know for a fact that it does not. WHen you bring up serviced you automatically lose because you are basically going against the ENTIRE Web 2.0. Hell on consoles you can't even watch some TV channels' streaming because they require special installations and crap which consoles don't even support.

So sum it all up when it comes to LIVE

- Very poor services

- Very poor fame communites

- Not free

- Ubiquitous game options, which are also availabe on the PCs as well if you spend 15 mins.

What do you gain? Nothing. Meanwhile you still pay.

 

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I too agree that the Wii defined this decade far fa more than the 360.