| McDonaldsGuy said: - Xbox Live. Seriously, the gold standard for online gaming. So many innovations - friends list, party chat, Xbox Live Arcade/Store, great matchamking, etc. etc. Compare it to the PS2's online! Now online gaming is probably the biggest part of gaming now, and Microsoft is the one that really pushed for it by including ONLY broadband for the Xbox instead of dialup (Sega's huge mistake) |
The gold standard is when you didn't have to pay to play online and it still works well. Xbox Live introduced nothing that I couldn't already do on my PC. Microsoft did nothing but show that people will pay for something they could have got for free all along, and because of that now Sony is doing the same.
Sure it's an innovation I guess. Innovated screwing over not one but two fanbases, maybe three if Nintendo jumps on the pay to play online next gen.
