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What do you choose?

Xbox Live 78 26.44%
 
PlayStation Plus 190 64.41%
 
Nintendoland seems pretty cool 27 9.15%
 
Total:295
Nightwish224 on 16 June 2012

I used to renew my XBL subscriptions, yet now I have a tablet. I really only renewed it for the Netflix features (which IMO was a big rip-off). I just don't play games online anymore, so there's really no reason to renew it.



Everyone needs to play Lost Odyssey! Any opposition to this and I will have to just say, "If it's a fight you want, you got it!"

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S.T.A.G.E. on 16 June 2012
yo_john117 said:
I wouldn't ever dream of dropping XBL Gold. All of my friends are on it (whom I get to talk to a lot via party chat) and there's also that little game called Halo which I love so, so much.


Little things like this are the simple little things that hold  the core of the 360. Weak, but yet such a strong chokehold. You pay for so little and they block access to third party subscriptions they have absolutely nothing to do with. Like the guy said, if they can get away with it, why stop? 



Darth Tigris on 16 June 2012

I only have a 360/XBL, so I haven't given PSN+ or whatever Nintendo is doing a satisfactory workover. Thus I'm declining to vote. I do really like XBL, though.



deskpro2k3 on 16 June 2012

Almost all my friends on my friend list now has PlayStation Plus.. I feel left out.. :(



Turkish on 16 June 2012
fillet said:

Lovefilm is one of the most hated companies in the UK, have a google :) just a quick check shows this http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews83680.html

Although now owned technically by amazon, they have the same staff as before takeover.

Anyway, it's OT. Just using to illustrate the obvious to our good old Mr Turkish who likes to day after day work as a PR machine tirelessly.

No doubt PS+ is a good deal and a far better showing than Xbox Live, still not "free games though".


I just dont understand what you're getting at, neither this comment nor that LoveFilm one.



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Turkish on 16 June 2012
Hapimeses said:
My subs for each were coming to an end, and I had to decide if they were worth renewing for another year. Eventually, after some thought, I only went with PS+; this time, anyway. Chatted about it on G+ a week or so ago as the poor value for money coming from Live after PS+'s upgrade was stark, and made it very hard for me to justify playing for Microsoft's service any more. So, as I said, I stopped.

Here's the post if anyone is interested: http://goo.gl/vwNCB


That is an interesting article you wrote. You get so much free stuff on PS+, compared to enabling online play. I think the most bang for the buck service is obvious. I just need Vita sales now!



Chark on 16 June 2012

For PS Plus free game offerings, the way I see it is that its a used/rental game alternative.

PS Plus is $50 a year for 36 games($4.17 a month for 3 games). Your subscription fee funds the industry very directly through digital distribution. The PS3 games are at least 1 year old or something and you don't select which titles come out, though I'm sure you can try suggesting them on PS Blog. The games stay with you as long as you have a subscription and you can renew your subscription down the road and regain access. 36 new titles every year adds up.

To compare, Gamefly offers 1 game rental at a time for $16 a month or 2 for $23. Your subscription doesn't provide any direct funds to the industry, just to Gamefly. You can select what games you want but there is limited availability, so your top priority titles might take some time to receive. Rent to your hearts content but a full year bags you at $192 to $276. You can only keep one or two titles at a time.

To compare, used game purchases don't provide any direct funds for the industry, just the retailers. You are still paying a decent sum per game depending on sales and how new they are. Say $20 a game for 36, that's $720. Though you have total control over which titles are bought but only if available. You get to keep your games because you own them, you can even sell them, although at a very reduced rate.



Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(

Turkish on 16 June 2012
Chark said:
For PS Plus free game offerings, the way I see it is that its a used/rental game alternative.

PS Plus is $50 a year for 36 games($4.17 a month for 3 games). Your subscription fee funds the industry very directly through digital distribution. The PS3 games are at least 1 year old or something and you don't select which titles come out, though I'm sure you can try suggesting them on PS Blog. The games stay with you as long as you have a subscription and you can renew your subscription down the road and regain access. 36 new titles every year adds up.

To compare, Gamefly offers 1 game rental at a time for $16 a month or 2 for $23. Your subscription doesn't provide any direct funds to the industry, just to Gamefly. You can select what games you want but there is limited availability, so your top priority titles might take some time to receive. Rent to your hearts content but a full year bags you at $192 to $276. You can only keep one or two titles at a time.

To compare, used game purchases don't provide any direct funds for the industry, just the retailers. You are still paying a decent sum per game depending on sales and how new they are. Say $20 a game for 36, that's $720. Though you have total control over which titles are bought but only if available. You get to keep your games because you own them, you can even sell them, although at a very reduced rate.


Amen brotha



brendude13 on 16 June 2012
smroadkill15 said:

Comparing psn+ with xbl gold, psn+ is definitely a better value and you get more for what you pay for, but in terms of a which service is better, psn is still lagging behind XBL. For the poeple that think I'm just blowing smoke out of my ass, I'll give several example:

1. Party Chat: I would say 98% of the xbl community uses this feature and just makes playing games or doing anything on xbl much better.

2. Download speeds/updates: Xbl is just much faster when it comes to downloading anything. Updates take 5 seconds and is all done in single update instead of several. Downloading any game,demo, video, app, etc. doesn't take very long on xbl.

3. Demo's: Every xbla game and indy game allows you to download a trial demo, and there are more retail demos also on live.

4. Playing splitscreen on two or more gold accounts: Any game with split screen on xbl lets you play with either a guest account or another gold account. I know this is a big issue on PSN and only several games allow you to have more than 1 primary PSN account play splitscreen, where as every game with splitscreen on xbl does.

5. More apps: Yes, both systems have apps you can download, but if you look at the growing number on xbl you can see there are more than psn and that number is only going to get bigger in the coming year. If you compare both services with the same app, say Netflix, the xbl version will almost always be superior with kinect features in everyone of them. Being able to say, "pause" while watching a movie on Netflix just adds a lot to the service.

6. Community/more active players: For me xbl feels more like a community and keeping in touch with friends is beyond simple. Everything just feels so much livelier on xbl.

Those are my main reason, and if you don't agree that's fine, but these are just my personal reasons. Like I stated previously PSN+=Better value, XBL Gold=Better service.

Great post, I disagree with 5 + 6, I feel that there are an equal number of apps (or at least apps that I find useful) and I don't think there is much of a difference in the community, but I agree with everything else you said completely.



PullusPardus on 16 June 2012

Its the better service no doubt, I hate the fact that I am paying for Gold and yet I get spammed by adverts left and right about shit I don't care about.