How is XBL better than PSN?

[jasonnc80]

MikeB said:

 

Some Blue-Tooth headsets support a respectable battery life of up to 16 hours talking, that's quite long. Personally I have a mini-USB (and a normal USB) cable extension from my PC on the to of my desk. The mini-USB port I use to recharge PS3 controllers, recharge my BlueTooth headset and to connect my photocamera or MP3 player. For me it's not much of an issue. The normal USB port I usually use for flash drives, but if I would need another mini-USB port I'll just get the PS3 extension cable from the desk drawer.

After several hours of gaming, the headset probably still has something like 10 hours of battery life left. You could easily connect it to the PC to recharge.

I'm however not using the headset all of the time with my phone, just when being on the road. The battery of my phone runs out quicker with Bluetooth enabled, a phone without battery charge is worse than a headset running out of battery charge.

 

Bluetooth just isn't a viable solution for gaming IMO.  It's a passable solution for mobile phones but voice quality even on high end headsets isn't going to touch even a basic wired solution.  While I was in college I was a sales manager for about 2 years at a national carrier here and used and sold dozens of models of headsets in that time.  I've owned myself about 10 different models from several manufactuers during my employment and can say I would prefer almost anything (gaming wise) over any of those.

I have a Turtle beach setup I use for both my PS3 and 360 and it's vastly superior to any bluetooth headset you'd find and fairly comparable in price to one of the nicer bluetooth models.

EDIT: @ second point on community size

I don't think we have a huge Japanese demographic here on VGchartz.  Europe however the roles of XBL/PSN could be reversed.  I'll give you that.  The problem still lies in the fact I don't see many people communicating while I'm on PSN. Maybe your experiences are completely different from mine but I'm just giving my first hand experiences from owning both consoles.  But I guess that's why they offer diferent consoles and games for different people. What may work for one person may not for another.  Such is life.