I only talk with my friends on the mic, so it doesn't matter much to me. Otherwise, I usually mute people since they're very annoying.

Say it once more I don't think people read the last 2 times you did it either. We get it you think Xbox is too much for live. I personally see value in it, it lets me play against people from other countries with not slowing down too much which is good. 

My ps3 slows down, it might be just mine but i doubt it, in aus servers if a non aus comes in people will tend to shoot at them to get them out of the server (may just be a cod thing) and i am talking about people even on their team. 

Also in australia the price of xbox 250 is 449 rrp. 398 at most places and live costs about the same. (our dollar is better than the us dollar atm but the rest of our prices are stoooooopid. Online buying is getting higher from this country) 

None the less, its not just United States which sell the xbox, many other countries do and its more worth it obviously else where. Australia is one case :)

PSN for me.

I have and used both and for DL speeds, i actually get better speeds on PSN, except on Tuesday nights when the update goes up. Then i don't even bother until the next day, i assume everyone on PSN is DLing all the new content at once for that.

Price, your right, you get what you pay for. And i pay nothing for PSN and get most of the features that Live has anyways. Party chat might be alright once and in awhile, but it was never a draw in for me.

User Interface/XMB - Again i rather PSN user interface, i find it's more smoother and easier to find content,the store is right there for me to click on as i soon i boot up. I can't stand scrolling through menus and IGN strategize windows on Live. (just a personal preference)

And why do i have to create a cheesy looking avatar on live?   Granted, Sony has Home and there avatar system but it's not forced on the user. If i wanted an Avatar, i'll click on Home and create one, Live forces you create and dress this lil guy up before i could create my Live account. 

I enjoy the intergrated Trophy system more so then Live's GS points. I like leveling up with the different types of Trophies and just feels more accomplished to me.

However i will say that Live's loading on the XMB kills PSN, PSN's intial loading of Trophy icons is pathetic!

PSN plus although is a paid service and although i haven't jumped the gun on it yet, it seems to worth the price tag considering the content you get back with it. That's just from on the surface reading up on it, maybe my opinion will change once i actually experience it.

I always have a steady connection and rarely get disconnected from either service, unless there's a storm here and everything goes down.

Tied in with the price agruement is the extra media app's question. Since PSN is free, app's just as Netflix, or Facebook intergration is a given with no price other then that's vendor's subscription. (Netflix) But on Xbox Live, i need a gold membership to access Netflix, Facebook, Last FM etc.    That to me is to quote an earlier poster "a ripoff"

PSN Internet Browser - I know i know, the quality of this thing is crap!  But it gets the job done. When the g/f is hogging the PC and i need to find some info or even come to this site, the browser on PS3 gets it done, while Live doesn't have one at all.

I can't think of anything else at the moment, but that pretty much sums it up for me. Like i said, i have and enjoy both, but for the personal fav of the 2, i have to go with PSN.

Damn toastboy, when there's nothing to post about Kinect or Microsoft or how games/things that are not on X360 suck you find something else to make a new thread, eventhough no one cares, and yet it has several posts. Impressive.

I prefer PSN because I mostly use online services for online gaming (well, and demoes from time to time) and PSN is free. Live is surely not expensive, not at all, but I don't play online very often, so I don't see a reason to pay for something that I don't use very often. And when it comes to pure online gaming Live and PSN are pretty equal: both are completely lag-free (well, depends on the game sometimes) and there are annoying kids on both platforms .

Furthermore, I have my friends on PSN, and since I bought my 360 in April this year I only played for around 10-12 hours on Live, so I don't have any friends there at all :/

This.

Online gaming is supposed to be FREE!Plus,PSN is almost as good as LIVE.

Simply put, I strongly agree.

Yawn.

thanks to cross game chat, XBL became empty just like PSN.

Oh, I thought I am the only one with frequent DCs from PSN. Just what the hell is Sony's problem? 

However, I never disconnected during matches, just random dcs when I am playing single player. And the patching of games tend to be really slow at times. 

OT: Never tried Live but do not see any reason to pay for online as I am happy with PSN's offering.