• Party system
• Better matchmaking, it uses Truskill
• Consistancy and reliability outside of the main games especially
• Game demos
• Less lag especially when playing with people overseas.
• Patches/updates take 2 seconds vs up to 1/4 hour
• Cross game chat
  
  

I think this "less lag" business is a myth. I'm playing uncharted 2 right now, been so for for over 6hrs now not one lag experienced.

I had Xbox live but cancelled because the only game I really played on Live was Forza 3. However I can see its worth. I play the majority of my games online on my PS3 and if they wanted to charge me 50 dollars a year I would gladly play. I could deff see this being this case If I played the majority of my games on Xbox .

2 points have problem:

Nowadays, they get the same game demos.

Patches/update download size and installation time isnt related to the online network.

And about those:

Are you sure about more consistency/reliability outside of the main game and less lag when playing with people overseas? By sure I mean having some kind of hard demonstration or expertise on the matter.

Party system/matchmaking isnt related with games?

1.True

2.I've played MW2 on both and both have the same amount of lag.

3.what?Disc scratching?

4.Demos?PSN has demos too....R you old or something?

5.I wouldn't know about that.

6.True we do take a shit load...

7.Theres 1 thing that could destroy it and render it useless!what can it be you say?PHONES!

now on the ps3 side 

PSN

Thats it...sh!t

Well if I don't have Live I can't play online with my friends or any game at all, so XBox is pretty pointless to me without Live. Also the original XBox had Live support for many, many years when Sony/Nintendo usually take down servers a lot faster.

Anyways topics like these have been beaten to death, why bring it up again?

The PSN keeps signing me out for no reason, but XBox Live does not.  I appreciate that stability while I'm in a deathmatch.

well i find that funny when original xbox live was disconnected and Sony is still running its PS2 services such as Socom 1 which was released 9 years ago.

Xbox live is a rip

Sony has Microsoft by the balls because now PSN is the same and can be even better than Live and its free. SCE is a strong believer in dedicated Severs and Live hardly has any. Also most dedicated severs are own by the publisher or Devoloper again rendering Live's payment point less. 

Xbox fanboys you have been Fooled. You are paying for Nothing. You are paying to communicate with your friends. Well guess what Microsoft gives that out for free with MSN. You are paying for a Friends list again is offered free by MS. Party chat, again MSN. You are paying to have free stuff run on your xbox. 

face it Live must cease payments with the next system or PSN will murder the next live because my then PSN will still be free with majority of lives features free with optional pay plans for other features. Dont think Sony is going to introduce payments for PSN because of PSN , thats there big marketing push to draw in people from xbox

Party chat, Party chat, Party chat!

I have both a 360 and PS3 but I do all my online gaming on the 360 because of this feature. I like to be able to control who I speak to online, so I don't like randoms or the other team hearing the tactics me and my friends make. Of course if you don't play team based games this would be a mute point. It wouldn't bother me very much on Wipeout for example, but I don't want to play Battlefield 1943 or another team based fps without this feature.

PSN just feels like a step down from LIVE.

OK from a Southern Hemisphere liver I am 100 percent with Squilliam where Xbox 360 is exceedingly smoother on the 360. When I was playing Modern Warfare 2 with my brother in Law on my PS3, when a single american, sometimes english man ie anyone not from Australia/New Zealand/ Asia (to an extent) they got shot till they left.

Not because we didnt like them but it killed the speed of the server. And if that person then got the Server (which pisses me off about COD games) we all had to quit and join a different game. Same lag was experience on Little Big Planet.

In Xbox 360 land I decided to play multiplayer on Gears of War 2. Now I was testing out hoard and 3 americans joined in, and i was thinking here we go and it ran so smooth it was insane. (I was a late night player because of being full-time). In fact  most of the people I have on my Xbox friends list are people from North America/Europe/UK. Because its smooth... and when I play. I have had the same experience with Crackdown 2, Transformers Demo, Spec Ops beta, Cod WAW I could continue.

Smoothness is different for other people but people in the Southern Hemisphere (OCEANIA AREA) we need Xbox servers. PSN is not nearly up to that standard in the Australian region. And if you think it is internet speed I ran 30mbps Cable internet from Telstra (people from Australia dont like to admit it but it is the most realiable ISP down here) and it was doing it in PSN. The lagginess. It has always pissed me off. One of the reasons why I dont like the PS3 is because of that reason.

That right there is worth the purchase price alone.

Plus there are 20mil independent Subscribers to Gold, there is a bloody good reason for it. And what Squil probably meant by demos is gold users get some exlusively first, as well as other features that are on the xbox.