PlayStation Plus Prompts Me to Rethink My Xbox Live Subscription

[Ajescent]

richardhutnik said:

Ajescent said:

richardhutnik said:

BasilZero said:
A question.

What if you download these games while having PSN+ and stop having PSN+ a few months later? Would you still be able to play them or would you need PSN+ to play them...?

Nope.  You need PSN to be able to play games you didn't buy.  It is like Gamefly or Netflix in some of this regard, or what OnLive has.  You are paying a subscription model to access content.

Actually my financial situation made me rethink my Gold account, and downgrade to Silver.  I don't play online, and as nice as streaming of movies are, it just isn't worth it.  I miss out on a few bonuses.  I will say, outside of a few features, Silver is better than what I have with PSN, because demos are free.  With PSN, they put them in PS Plus and people have to pay for it.  There are exceptions, but I get more demos on XBL Silver than I do PSN.

Are you suggesting that demos are saved for plus members? If you are, you are incorrect.

It's only betas, only demos that get reserved are like once every 4months, even then it appears on normal psn about a week later.

I didn't say that the PS3 didn't have any demos, just that the XBox 360 has more demos, LOTS more demos.  Even the XBL Indie games have demos for them.  The closest thing to Indie games are Minis on PSN, and I almost never see any demos of those.  You get a streaming video of it.

You have to have exposure to both XBox Live and PSN to be able to notice this as one of the differences.  It is because of how their business models are set up to pay for things. Microsoft uses Live to cover the cost of their network, Sony relies on purchases on their network.  This causes PSN to have less free content on it, and use of Playstation Plus, where they put stuff on there.   

Do you even have an XBox 360?  Your game collection doesn't show any that I know of, so I would assume the answer is no. As someone who doesn't have Playstation Plus, I guess I was presuming it was better than I thought it was, in regards to demos.

That I'll agree with, demos as well as cross chat but if that's free to silver, it doesn't justify gold.

I don't own a 360, my only access to the 360 are my place of work and my cousin I'm a steamywii3 gamer