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reidlosdog on 17 October 2010
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SpartenOmega117 said:
reidlosdog said:
SpartenOmega117 said:
dahuman said:

You know, most people have computers that can do what live does better for free. consoles are for gaming, like hell if I'm going to watch that crap ass encoded Netflix for money or use Last.FM when Shoutcast is a better way to go (there is an app for that too, <3 smart phones, I use Shoutcast on the road as my primary music source.)

Those live features can be done in a simple web browser and there is nothing like dev IRC sessions or simply go straight to their forums. You don't even need a gaming machine to do all those and who the hell has internet and no computer? Nobody gets internet just for a console or 2 unless the person is obsolutely retarded.

Live has xchat which is really why it's better than PSN, it's definitely not worth the 50-60 bucks you pay a year, and on the flip side, no xchat on PSN but you don't have to pay a dime to play games online, which is actually a much better value than xchat for that amount of money.

I have consoles for games, games, GAMES! It's a no shit that the PS3 is a better value when it comes to pure gaming. Not to mention that the supreme VoIP app right now is Mumble, nothing on consoles can even touch that thing, no other VoIP in the world is better than Mumble for gaming atm, and that's free too.

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Has anyone mentioned the fact that you are going to be able to upload your photos and videos from your kinect to facebook and third party game developer sites?  Yoostar 2 is making it so your able to upload your videos, and Kinect adventures is allowing the pic app across the internet.

Also, I have a question for the PS3 guys, is your chat sound like a intercom or does it sound like a clear as day internet voice chat?  This November 2nd we are getting an upgraded codec, and I was just interested in what PS3 had.

http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/10/09/eight-little-things-you-may-not-have-known-about-the-xbox-360-fall-update.aspx

That also has a list of new little tid bits we will be getting soon.  And also, we are getting the "family pack" soon, which will give us 4 memberships for the price of 2.  I actually think that is why they bumped up the price, to make that ever so enticing.

We are paying $60 a year so we can have kinect take photos of us? Again you are getting away from my point. And that point is that does thta have to do with online multiplayer? Honestly out of all the people who have gold memberships how many of them would actually use facebook, twitter, etc.? Why not make it so all of the games have dedicated servers for xbox live? Now that new codec is actually something i am very excited about. That might actually be one of the good reasons paying $60 a year. I think it would be better if Micro$oft just charged maybe $20 a year just for online gaming and cross game chat. How many of you actually use acebook, twitter, and last.fm on xbox live?

I tried to use all of them but i thought they were all better on the computer which is sitting right next to my xbox.

What will be the difference between posting your video of you from Black Ops and and posting your video from Yoostar 2?  It seems you are voluntarily dismissing the Kinect online experience as not online.  Both Black Ops and Yoostar 2 are games.  I think this does count as online multiplayer.  You simply choose to not give it that much validation.

I personally have never, and probably will never, have the honor of enojoying server based gaming.  I truly do think that PS3 and the 360 are hugely conter productive.  The PS3 has all of these servers, but only # of PS3 owners actually use online.  The PS3 has a large portion of single player players.  Many of their games are amazing for single player gameplay.  On the other hand, the 360 has a 0 online play rate.  coupled with more Hardware sales and more online use, Microsoft should have servers for their exclusives.

But when looking at that different amount of online gameplay, it seems to really make a difference having cross-gaming chat and party capabilities.  If the online is free on the PS3, by all means, the PS3 should have a higher online play rate.  But it doesn't.

With everything we get this fall, and the ability to pay only $25 for a membership, I think that is a pretty big incentive for saying that XBL WILL be better.  As of right now, paying about 4.50 a month for online gaming and huge discounts (which add up to about $5 a month of you play popular arcade/mainstream video games.  If they half price everything (like they do) we easily save as much money as we spend, probably even more.

That in my book, coupled with everything else, is pretty big.

If you want to say you get free Sony games from sony PS1 exclusives, go right ahead.  But it's pretty easy for Sony to hand you something that is there's, and pretty hard for Microsoft to get discounts for major 3rd party games.



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