@ SpartenOmega117

For the simple fact that you REFUSE to see anything else but one feature to differentiate XBL and PSN, and justify XBL's cost; despite having the many lists shown to you by different ones in this thread (including a very detailed list by d21lewis) in my opinion you've made up your mind, and this thread was pointless to begin with. No more replies needed, at least none from me.

Im not saying that xbox live doesn't have many features that differentciate itself with PSN. Im just saying that on a gaming level, where you go online just to play games with friends, then xbox live is pretty much the same as PSN.

Yeah but HD porno > SD porno

I NEVER HEARD OF THOSE SITES YOU MENTIONED ABOVE!! (xDDD) [xvideos is also good LOL]

$80 a year for something I'm getting free on another system isn't worth it. Three quarters of the features Live has are pretty much useless to me and everything else it does have works just as well on my other system. Got a Gold account for free when I first bought my 360, it lasted 30 days and I only ever got on a few times and then never used it again. Not because the system was flawed, but because of how mediocre the whole experience was after all the praise people throw on it. The best thing Microsoft ever did was throw in a headset with every console, that's the biggest advantage Live has over it's competitors. I just don't see how anyone can look at two AAA titles that they could buy and then look at Live (while owning a PS3 or PC) and then choose Live, but people obviously do.

Could Gold membership be one of the reasons why some people mod their console?

Socom is a exception to the rule - go and try to play all those PS2 games you have that are online enabled and you'll see a majority of them have their servers gone. XBox had every single online game up for 7 years with the exception of a half dozen that were pulled by their developers (Capcom: Steel Battalian, and Sega: Phantasy Star Online) you can't top that. Sony has been taking down servers every year and I believe Socom is still up because some countries are just now getting PS2s, as Sony is expanding its global reach.

Honestly towards the end it was not worth keeping the original XBox servers up if you looked at the stats - The most played game was Halo 2 and it had just over 1k people playing it, everything else was a user here and there nothing else came close. I went back to some of the games before they shut down and 99% of the games had no one playing them. I wish MS kept up the DLC for games but they would just be bleeding money from all the free downloads. Seven years is a damn good run for old games that no one really cared about. Basically XBox 1 Live was still up to tide people over till more and better 360 games came out and they were able to buy 360s. Once the 360 was out just over a year it had enough games to switch over to.

Calling people Fanboys is not going to help your arguement either and It's rather inmature.

They dont throw a headset in every console. In fact I think those are opnly special bundles. Live doesn't cost $80 either

You know, most people have computers that can do what live does better for free. consoles are for gaming, like hell if I'm going to watch that crap ass encoded Netflix for money or use Last.FM when Shoutcast is a better way to go (there is an app for that too, <3 smart phones, I use Shoutcast on the road as my primary music source.)

Those live features can be done in a simple web browser and there is nothing like dev IRC sessions or simply go straight to their forums. You don't even need a gaming machine to do all those and who the hell has internet and no computer? Nobody gets internet just for a console or 2 unless the person is obsolutely retarded.

Live has xchat which is really why it's better than PSN, it's definitely not worth the 50-60 bucks you pay a year, and on the flip side, no xchat on PSN but you don't have to pay a dime to play games online, which is actually a much better value than xchat for that amount of money.

I have consoles for games, games, GAMES! It's a no shit that the PS3 is a better value when it comes to pure gaming. Not to mention that the supreme VoIP app right now is Mumble, nothing on consoles can even touch that thing, no other VoIP in the world is better than Mumble for gaming atm, and that's free too.

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