| J_Allard said: What do I have to support my claim that PSN is still lagging behind Live Gold in some areas? I don't know, reality? You can disagree on whether or not the advantages of Live are worth the fees involved but that doesn't change the fact that they exist. The service is far more popular, is much faster, and much more reliable. You can repeat whatever you want about PS+ until you're blue in the face, it won't make the comparison any more logical. You're still comparing two services aimed at two very different things providing very different services. It's not hard. Do you use both services? I use both and they aren't the same thing. I don't go to XBL looking for some great discounts on games and I don't load up PS+ looking for the best social hub and online gaming network around. XBL is vastly superior than PS+ at doing what XBL is intended to do and PS+ is vastly superior to XBL at doing what it is intended to do. Which is fine, because they are not intended to do the same thing. PS+ is an attempt by Sony to rake in some online revenue while keeping their online play free because they know they cannot compete performance vs performance and feature vs feature with Live. Here's a question.. with MS making so much money on XBL, if Sony were as close to Live parity with PSN as you think, why aren't they charging? What, are people gonna go to Nintendo then? They don't charge because they know the service is not worth it. You seem upset with that last remark. Go have a Coke and a smile, this can't be the first time you've been wrong on the Internets. |
Oh, little do we know. You make your arguement on XBL being better because XBL is better. It is becaues it is. That's not reasoning. At least you tried to list a few items.
So is XBL more popular? More popular in gaming? No, 360 itself is outnumbered by competitive systems. More popular online? Last number announcemnt indicates that a higher percentage of PS3's are activate for online use than there are subscribers to XBL. More popluar for specific titles? Sure, there is no doubt more Call of Duty gamers use live over PSN, the proof is in the sales, but that isn't true for the service all together. Perhaps here lies the confusion of your perception.
So is XBL faster? Here's the one that baffles me. I ask for proof, measurement, and the least I expect are some examples. So what is it? Are you talking matchmaking times? In game latencies? I might give you this one if you can show some evidence, but if you attempt to argue using OS or hardware issues rather than server quality, well...you can ignore this one like you have any attempt to substantiat your claims.
So is XBL more reliable? I'm guessing this is tied into the last point? Latency, matchmaking times, or are we talking about security? No doubt the PSN hack was a mess. PSN had one huge hole in their system. SInce then, it has been resolved, but what about it's XBL counterpart? Don't tell me you haven't heard or don't remember when XBL was hacked and brought down for a month aswell? And what about the countless claims about account hacking and the Microsoft employee accounts falling to hackers? While some of that is phishing, and PSN users suffer that, XBL's problem is more widespread. A month down is the worst large scale hack XBL has seen, but for what security they manage for the entire system they fall short on the small scale.
I'm not saying XBL and PS+ are the same thing, you must have a hard time reading. They are both services top tier premium memberships. They both have different offerings and so do their free plans. I don't know why I have to explain this so thoroughly to you. XBL free offers access to their store for digital purchases and system updates, unless I'm missing something not much else. PSN free offers store access, updates, online gaming, store discounts, media apps, web browser, in game chat, out of game voice and video chat, messaging, remote play, remote start, crossplatform, crossplay, crossbuy, and crosscontroller. XBL Gold offers in addition; online gaming, in game chat, cross game chat, messaging, media apps, social apps, store discounts(exclusive to gold?), web browser, cloud saving, and dedicated 1st party game servers for every game. PS+ offers in addition; cloud saving, automatic updates, deep additional discounts, 48 free games for PS3, 24 free games for Vita, free themes, and free avatars.
They don't have to be the same thing to be the premium service on each console and unless you back up your claims it becomes hard to say one is superior to the other. I believe my point still stands that XBL will need to change up its offers, not neccessarily by improving their free offering, but increasing the features and benefits of XBL Gold to a level PSN won't be able to provide. And they need to maintain that edge. Probably through exlusive features or something.
Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(
