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BMaker11 on 18 April 2008
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disolitude said:
ultraslick said:
Why would Sony charge for the PSN. It pays for itself. All the PSN does .. is make money. With every new feature that Sony introduces whether it is a music or video store or home, each will earn money in their own ways.

Why would a company charge you a fee for giving you the opportunity to spend even more money?

I guess we have to ask Microsoft that one.

Although I do understand how the PSN does take money to run the servers/ content additions and so forth, but I would have to imagine that those costs are minute compared to the total revenue the PSN makes from the previously mentioned sources.

All that stuff where sony and microsoft make money on is free on both xbox live and PSN. Online game experience is what you pay for with Live. Actual online play... in game chatter...MSN messenger while playing a game...that costs $$$.

Buying videos, games, movies...its free on xbox dude.


 That's just the thing though. Everyone that touts that XBL is SOOOO much better talk about how the marketplace is better, or that friends can invite you at anytime, or better communit, when PS fans talk about it being $50 a year. But X360 fans, at least most fo them, don't realize that those services ARE free, all with an XBL silver account. It's only when you drop that $50 that you can actually play games, and in that sense, XBL is no better than PSN, when comparing XBL's cost to PSN being free. That's all there is to it. If XBL were free, sure, I would concede and say it was better. But the fact that the $50 doesn't go to having a great integrated friends list, or being able to message, or having a great marketplace (because Silver users have that functionality), but rather is the fee to ACTUALLY PLAY THE GAMES ONLINE is the reason I and many others say it's not worth it to pay.

@Gebx

XBL doesn't have dedicated servers. Otherwise, you would have never had that fiasco over this past Christmas where Live went down, and no 360 users could play ANY games. Not one.

Another advantage of PSN ;)