MikeB on 15 June 2008
@ Gamer4eva
The Best Online Ever For A Console (Yes admit it PS3 boys)
The need to pay/subscribe for online gaming IMO degrades the experience and hinders potential. A majority of 360 owners aren't subscribed to gold to play online. On the PS3 you can expect all your internet connected friends to be able to play online games together.
Also the online gaming experience differs on a per game basis, there are dedicated servers for many great online PS3 games like Resistance, Warhawk, Motorstorm, etc. With regard to game lag I think the PS3 experience for such games beat 360 games, Also for instance Singstar sports a really great online SingStore. So 2 very important strongpoints, new firmware updates and Home will probably take the overall experience well beyond what the 360 can deliver. (the 360's 32 MB firmware memory is as good as full, this while the two 128 MB firmware memory chips still provide lots of free space for significant improvements, also no default harddrive).
On topic: The 360 currently performs as expected, maybe a little worse as Halo 3 did not have the profound impact as expected and neither did the recent European pricecut. This year with games like Star Wars, Fable 2 and Gears 2 I think the 360 will do OK (however selling many millions of units less than the PS3), there are still millions of XBox owners in Europe and North America who still haven't upgraded towards the 360 despite the complete lack of support for the original box.
Next year I think the 360 platform will really hurt in terms of sales. Market saturation kicking in (the pool of upgrading XBox fans dying out) and far more profound competition with the PS3, etc. I think the PS3 will become the most interesting console for FPS games, a market segment the XBox was far more suitable for than the PS2.
