ssj12: "Most online servers Sony has are dedicated. So there is no lag. EVER. Unless someone hosts a game and they have an internet connection slower then 2Mbps."
With all due respect ssj12, it is clear you're a little fuzzy on how the Internet, and networks in general, works. Most latency is caused by distance and number of hops between the server and client.
Most games, with the exception of MMO's, don't use the dedicated server model (even on PC's). This is because if your dedicated server is on the west coast, and you've got two guys who want to play each other in Maine, every time someone sends a command to the server it has to go all the way accross the country and back.
In the age of powerful computers and consoles, most systems are peer-to-peer. So if I'm in New Hampshire and I play games with folks from Mass, NY, and Maine, all the data travels in short hops and we don't have to worry about round trips to some server located 1000's of miles away.
Gamers have 3 choices this generation: The Exercise Machine, the Movie Machine, or the Game Machine. What kind of gamer are you?
