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What Is The Best Games Digital Distribution Service?

Steam 47 66.20%
 
Xbox Live 7 9.86%
 
PSN 7 9.86%
 
VC/Wiiware 4 5.63%
 
Other (please mention) 6 8.45%
 
Total:71

Which do you think, please say why if you can.



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<p>really you have to be dam idiot who doesn't have steam to pick other wise </p> <p>Valve offer the best deals and extremely competitive, you cant go wrong with steam </p>



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It's hard not to say Steam.



Crap, I forgot to include GFWL, as a joke! Oh well



Steam all the way



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Appstore... I like steam but when I didn't have ultra fast speed internet it's no fun waiting days for something to download... I like the appstore cause I can download 20mb games on the go.. good search, some damn fine games and a nice user review system.. with a 5 point star rating.. and they have a better dollar/euro conversion... which quite sucks with steam.



 

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I don't use any of them all that much, so maybe my impressions don't completely match reality. Kind of a split between Steam and Xbox Live for me. Steam has better prices/more offers, no policy of forcing a price tag on DLC. Also personally I prefer the interface and I like having my prices in actual money instead of points. But I like a trial for each game on the Live side.

Wii's bound to console instead of an account MO is a huge bother to me. Little info on titles, but I love the fact that my Japanese Wii (and consequently Japanese store) accept my non-Japanese credit card without complaint. PSN suffers from the same lack of demos/videos/proper screenshots, and I hate their policy on matching region credit cards.



alekth said:

I don't use any of them all that much, so maybe my impressions don't completely match reality. Kind of a split between Steam and Xbox Live for me. Steam has better prices/more offers, no policy of forcing a price tag on DLC. Also personally I prefer the interface and I like having my prices in actual money instead of points. But I like a trial for each game on the Live side.

Wii's bound to console instead of an account MO is a huge bother to me. Little info on titles, but I love the fact that my Japanese Wii (and consequently Japanese store) accept my non-Japanese credit card without complaint. PSN suffers from the same lack of demos/videos/proper screenshots, and I hate their policy on matching region credit cards.


the trail games if for PSN



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Depends, on matters of content versus delivery, i mean it's hard to beat the one of those that has pretty much everything worth owning from the NES through the N64 and everything in between (except 32x, 3DO, Jaguar, PS1, and Saturn), even if it does suffer from low speeds, a points system, and device-specific content locking

 

Though Steam has an impressive library either way to go with its surpassingly awesome feature-set, so it would probably edge VC out either way



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None of the console DD systems can stand up to the sheer number of full games available on PC distribution systems, let alone Steam which has over 1000 titles. The only thing that comes close is app store but then that isn't dedicated to gaming.