Heres the thing.

XBL is always first with the new stuff. ALWAYS.

XBL has ALOT more HD movies available for buy or rent. Zune Pass for absolutely every piece of music ever written ( with no downloading needed ).

Community games, which are fantastic and super super cheap. XBLA gets alot more exclusives and has alor more arcade games available than PSN.

The other point is it depends on where you live.

GT5 came out here in the UK. I went to my friends house to play it and have a bifta. But we couldnt play it because it would not load due to the online side of GT5 completely screwing her PS3 up. It wouldnt load pass the servers. every time you accessed the nest screen it took 15 mins to communicate with servers and then not connect. It was attrocious. We live in the UK, so I dont know if other countries have problems like this. But she hates PSN for the sheer amount of issues it has. KZ3 was another game that made her PS3 crawl at a snails pace.

I have no idea why it keeps happening. But she often stops her PS3 accessing PSN just so she can play games.

XBL is smoother, faster and has alot more content. ( At least here in the UK ). It disconnects alot less here and allows for creative freedom from the community to build there own games and put them up on XBL.

I may pay £35/ year. But I have trouble free online usage and more content in my country. FACT.

@mundus  wrong wrong and wrong.  matchmaking depends on the game and that depends on the dev. SSF4, KOF12, Mvs.C3 i have had no problem with matchmaking at all. Whereas Tekken 6 is horrible, it all depends on the game. Do you even play fighters on PSN, it all depends on who your playing if your playing a guy with crappy connection, it will suck, I play Mvs.C3 on Live and PSN and they are the same damn thing. 

@selnor  it must be the country your in or the connection your using. im in the US and i have not problems with the PSN

i dont know what your rambling on about. 

i never had a problem with accesing a game on psn.

also considering i have 2 kb/s internet its amazes me.

ot: i voted for the obama option :P

but i do agree with many that xbl>psn

only problem i have with xbl is that you have to pay to play online. if the rest of the package was a premium service then i woudnt mind.

can you please learn how to qoute people? this way they would actually respond to you.

^^^ "qoute" as soon as your learn how to spell, but really what are you getting on about???

I think live is better because of the corny avatars that make your friends more personnal, especially if you do not know them all well.

I like how the free mics for the 360 often work better than my bluetooth which picks up the talking of everyone in the room no matter what settings I put it on. I can not curse and scream at a frien without the whole online world hearing on psn very annoying. This is one rare case were the cheaper thing is better.

I like how it is easier to switch which credit card I am using on live. I will not explain my ordeals, but there are many.

It is tons easier to join friends in private parties on live so that is also a plus.

But I like to play online games for free and I like that there are less loud adds on psn, so it winsin a few cases. Overall, live is better, but it fucking better be when you pay; kind of a logical think don't you think people?

finally, someone sees the truth

You only have to type in GT5 wont load or freezes on Bing and it's all there. The issues are always fixed when disconnecting from PSN. It's happened to alot of games my firend plays. Looking on Bing there are alot of people from many countries. She has a 50 Mb connection and here 360 is always fine. So it's definately PSN. She just has to many issues. 1 day it works the next it doesnt. Some games are fine. But mainly the good games seem to mess her around.

You can debate on and on whether XBL is worth the price (I think it is personally), but XBL is a better service.   

Really?  What is the PSN answer to Indie games? Also, PSN doesn't offer as many demos of downloadable content as the XBox Live.  Everything just about has a demo on XBox Live, which is not the case of the PSN content.