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mantlepiecek on 31 December 2010
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AussieGecko said:
mantlepiecek said:


Rumours =/= Reality.

Valve is the best example. The DLCs that you so readily pay for in left 4 Dead on the 360 is free on the PC.

Have you seen australias version of L4D2, no i dont play it

And it would be free on the PS3 as well if left 4 dead was available on the PS3. Just because M$ is too greedy doesn't make Live better.

Ummmm say what? Name one DLC that is free on the ps3 that is not on the 360 that is not exclusive to that game for the console, coz then both have examples of that. 

People wouldn't pay for steam as well, because its been free all along and it totally sh*ts on both PSN and Xbox live. Out of these three services, the only one to charge is: XBL.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that's a rip-off.  Only delusional people think that paying more = better quality, and free= sh*t.

Yes PC online is better, there is no question to this except this is one option that was not in the original question, if we must add it.

Pc gaming > Xbox Live > PSN 

Dont excuse PSN sub par performance vs the 360 because pc gaming is better then both.

If you browse through walmart and best buy, and find a game you are looking for $10 less in walmart than in best buy, or heck, for free in walmart and for $50 in best buy, where will you purchase it from?

Obviously best buy, right?

PSN is not the same service, they are unequal. This has pretty much been stated through the thread

As a person who's used live as much as PSN, I know every plus and minus of both services very well. They are both the same when it comes to performance while playing a game, there's no difference.

No you find no difference, how many Australians and non Americans do you play against. I can play against Americans, Englishman, Europeans, Japanese, with not as big connection drop. I have a ps3 and 360. I pay for live and not psn plus. I used to get COD because of my bro in law on the ps3 but i dont anymore, it is that annoying for me :-/



I play against everyone, since MAG doesn't have that many people throughout the world, and it works like magic at any given time of the day. But it has dedicated servers. 

Another example is COD. I have played CoD 4 on 360 and CoD 5 on PS3 and they run the same. 

Cross game (voice) chat is the only thing that XBL gold has over PSN. Then again, PSN has 16 player cross game text chat as well. And first party games usually get dedicated server support.

And the DLC part? Assassins Creed Brotherhood and Mafia 2, both have exclusive and free DLCs for the PS3. I don't know games that are available on both having free DLCs on PS3, but its possible that publishers might not allow it in the fear of non platform-parity. I am not sure. We will see with Portal 2 what happens.

But why don't you compare PS plus with XBL if costs don't matter? With PS plus you get free (sometimes)l DLCs, and regular psone games along with discounts and PSN games and avatars and dynamic themes, and exclusive betas and qore and god knows what else. It depends upon the region though. But the price depends upon the region as well.

Oh and you get automatic updates as well. The regular PS users don't consider all of these features as important, why will they consider cross game chat as important? Or voice messages, for that matter.