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PSN vs XBL which is better?

PSN 187 40.22%
 
XBL 206 44.30%
 
SAME 34 7.31%
 
obama saved or created 465 million jobs 36 7.74%
 
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oniyide on 01 April 2011

you dont pay to play. that reason alone PSN is better than Live IMHO, Espn, Facebook, cross game chat. y'all can keep it for 60 bucks, not worth it to me



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dsister on 01 April 2011
anikikim said:

never heard of Front lines or section 8, and Im pretty sure theyre multiplat. Mind telling me any xbox exclusive games that have dedicated servers and a high player count?


Does it matter? 

It proves that XBL is not restricting it, and it's all the developers decision as to whether or not include dedicated servers. 

fyi: Frontlines wasn't on the PS3 



Sig thanks to Saber! :D 

d21lewis on 01 April 2011

I wish Live would bring back 1 vs. 100.  :(



pizzahut451 on 01 April 2011
oniyide said:

you dont pay to play. that reason alone PSN is better than Live IMHO, Espn, Facebook, cross game chat. y'all can keep it for 60 bucks, not worth it to me


you can get ESPN and facebook on PSN as well and just about every other web site in the world...for free !!!!



d21lewis on 01 April 2011
pizzahut451 said:
oniyide said:

you dont pay to play. that reason alone PSN is better than Live IMHO, Espn, Facebook, cross game chat. y'all can keep it for 60 bucks, not worth it to me


you can get ESPN and facebook on PSN as well and just about every other web site in the world...for free !!!!


Why don't you try it and see what happens......



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BenVTrigger on 01 April 2011
deskpro2k3 said:
BenVTrigger said:

I gotta be honest here.

Anyone who thinks PSN is better than Live is kidding themselves.  PSN is excellent and Plus rocks and the service is more than just ok but its not close to Live.


why?

Faster conncection times.

More stability in online matches.

More exclusive downloadable titles.

Many times early access to DLC add ons

Better Sense of Community.

Easier to navigate and find what your looking for.

And I could go on.  If you would like me to list more I gladly will.  I'm a Plus member even on PSN look at my sig, and I'm not knocking PSN at all.  For a free service its great.  Its just not as good as Live is.



osamanobama on 01 April 2011
d21lewis said:
osamanobama said:
d21lewis said:
osamanobama said:
 

no obviously competetion makes things better (we r not a communist state.... yet). that goes for xbl too, also steam could have potentally given that compatition.

anyway i dont know if live came out first, but i do know that the ps2 had the data port for online since launch.


No, you had to buy the network adapter seperately and attach it to the console.  Same goes for the PS2 hard drive.

i know, but the data expansion port was there you just had to but, the expansion pack or something (which i never did)

but with the introduction of the slim, you had an ethernet port, which youd just plug in the cable to get online.

i never new you could get a harddrive for the ps2

Yeah, it was only for the phat PS2, though.   Once the slim came out, they left out the port where you placed the HDD.  I had the network adapter (came attached to a used PS2 that I got....illegally.  I didn't steal it, though!).  Never had a slim PS2 but over the years, I had three phats.  There was a little bit of an uproar when the new design came out because you had to have the HDD to play Final Fantasy XI on the PS2 and the new slim PS2 didn't support it.

I'm a fountain of video game trivia!


i got my ps2 christmas 2001 (if that is one year after the american release, i know i got it one year later).

and still have the same one. i guess im lucky, huh



osamanobama on 01 April 2011
BenVTrigger said:
deskpro2k3 said:
BenVTrigger said:

I gotta be honest here.

Anyone who thinks PSN is better than Live is kidding themselves.  PSN is excellent and Plus rocks and the service is more than just ok but its not close to Live.


why?

Faster conncection times.

More stability in online matches.

More exclusive downloadable titles.

Many times early access to DLC add ons

Better Sense of Community.

Easier to navigate and find what your looking for.

And I could go on.  If you would like me to list more I gladly will.  I'm a Plus member even on PSN look at my sig, and I'm not knocking PSN at all.  For a free service its great.  Its just not as good as Live is.

im sorry but a lot of what you said is blatently false.

connection time has nothing to do with psn or xbl, it has to do with ur internet speed and if your hard wired or wifi.

what online matches are more stable on xbl, almost all multiplats have the exact same connect (most are P2P, which uses your own connection, so nothing to do with psn or xbl) and we have already discussed that psn has more dedicated server games.

pretty much the only early access to DLC xbl gets is call of duty, so that point is mute not to mention that has nothing to do with xbl.

better sense of community. a rather ambiguous statement, but i will not argue this one.

very much a matter of opinion. if youre talking about the main menu though, i much much much prefer the xmb (but menus are the online services)



deskpro2k3 on 01 April 2011

really dont see the big deal. there is even ads on the dashboard, so i dont really see why they charge 60 dollars a year. just imagine all the income they get. if i can make an extra 100 dollars a month for putting up an ad up on my youtube channel just imagine how much money microsoft makes on their dashboard. dont tell me its only for DLC and exclusive map packs for games that is already exclusive. i just dont see why they charge for something that should be free. This is why I like psn. I just like free stuff anyways lol



d21lewis on 01 April 2011

If all you want to do is play your game online, you can't go wrong with the PSN.  In fact, it would probably be hard to sell the XBL to someone that didn't care about the online community, the other features, and options.  Being free is a HUGE advantage for the PSN.