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brendude13 on 05 January 2013
Nsanity said:
brendude13 said:
P2P or dedicated servers, the ping will be identical between Xbox 360 and PS3.

Both PSN and Xboxlive used dedicted servers, but very few.

I know, I was just saying that for multiplatform games, both use either P2P or dedicated servers, so latency will always be the same.



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slowmo on 05 January 2013
Degausser said:
slowmo said:
Degausser said:
Only got Ps3 but never had an issue with PSN, and played Live on mates consoles in the past. Could never
tell the difference on games of FIFA or Battlefield. End of the day servers arn't gonna influence if someones connection itself isn't up to speed.


Yes it does, the way matchmaking works on each service would mean deciding if you get to play with mainly those closest to you or crap games with someone halfway across the globe.  Then there is a element of whether there is efforts by the console manufacturer to limit match making within regions or not.  Just because you haven't noticed a difference doesn't mean there isn't or cannot be.  Items such as more ports being required by the different services could also have a bearing on user experience.  I think your main point is probably that the host connection matters most ultimately which is of course accurate.


 Well all the games I play online seem to be EA games anyway which seem to have some sort of ping based match making as I never don't get a smooth game nowadays. Or maybe everyone who plays the thing are just European so you're always gonna be fine for lag.

 I grew up on Socom 2 playing Swedish and Finnish clans so I'm well adjusted to lag anyway, so everything nowadays probably feels stupidly smooth :P.


On Gears 2 a lot of cheaters used to use lag switches to force host selection in their favour.  I've never been a fan of matchmaking on any service as being a PC gamer predominantly in the past I like being able to choose my server.  P2P hosting is crap but its all they'll let us have bar on the odd exception.



ibrahimman0 on 05 January 2013

Live has the smoother online gameplay , cuz microsoft put alot of effort in it thats why its not free.



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Corey on 05 January 2013

Probably not much of a difference, Xbox has party chat and smoother social aspects but that's about it.



coolguy on 05 January 2013

At one time i have used both. i never had any real trouble. i only used live for about a year. why pay 50 dollars when i can play for free on PSN i just like PSN better



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bouzane on 05 January 2013

The only major latency issues that I've encountered with either service were Gears of War 2 and LittleBigPlanet. I have to say that the two services are comparable.



o_O.Q on 05 January 2013

since most games use p2p servers i'd think the right answer would be that generally its reliant on the users connection
however, to my knowledge sony runs more dedicated servers for exclusives than microsoft