Reasonable said:
dahuman said:
Reasonable said:
I wouldn't say it's special as such but what makes it good is the tight level of integration between community/games/content it offers. In truth cross game chat is the only real USP it has functionally vs PSN so far as I can tell - but the OS for the console and how it integrates is a bit better and slicker. Online play itself is identical. Downloads and patching is neater with Live though.
It's also not really that expensive - although I think Silver should get access to more than they do in terms of non-gaming non MS centric stuff. |
I tempered with the Metro UI on my friend's 360, I really really don't like it, but some of you already know that I'm a hater of the Metro UI since it's super ugly, a fair comparison is the PS3 and XMB is much faster to get to things with and you don't have a box dedicated to ads, I just want something that's clean and fast. You can do background downloads on PS3 as well, and background patching with cloud storage with PSN+, not that I'd pay for that either since it's hardly worth it IMO as well, I generally just backup my saves elsewhere.
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TBH I was speaking "pre Metro" as I've been so busy I've barely used my 360 much since the upgrade. I have Gold/PSN Plus so I know the comparison pretty well I think - that's why I said the only really unique thing for Live is Cross-Game chat - everything else PSN does too really. Like most 360 users (I think) I tend to use the simple pop-up main menu rather than the main menu.
I really must use the new UI I bit more to see how it really holds together.
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If we are really comparing a permanent subcription in between the 2 consoles, I'd rather get PSN+ over XBL tbh based on value if I can only pick one, but as a gamer I'd have to get XBL so I can do MP on both consoles since that'd make the most sense, though I wouldn't get either in reality....... yep..... I hate Metro UI..... hoping for revamp before Windows 8 comes out to make it pretty, I say that because I'd be looking at the theme all day, I want it to be nice looking..... come on MS!
