You get free games, not just discounts.

Those free games may be game you've always wanted to try or missed. In my case its Borerlands and Bioshock 2. Yes, Sony chooses the games and thats the whole point of it. They give us a chance to try these games they know many of us missed or in some cases it can be used as a promotional tool to promote the sequel.(as with Bioshock 2)

WE DO NOT LOSE THE GAMES ONCE WE STOP SUBSCRIBING. We just lose access to them. But then again, why would you unsubscribe? By the time your subscribition ends, odds are you've already gotten more than your moneys worth. Odds are you're not even playing these games anymore so it wouldn't matter you can't play them anymore.

I myself just finished Bioshock 2 and plan on buying Infinite in the future. This is the magic of Playstation Plus. 

Your argument that you dont' get to choose what games to play is just ridiculous. Plus isn't a rental service. It is not like Netflix. However, you do get a LARGE library of 1-hour game trials. That's alone may be worth it to some people. You can try the new Medal of Honor or Battlefield 3 for example.

I live in the US and most people I know who are 360 fans don't care about ANYTHING Sony offers. I try to explain that they are missing out on some great experiences with exclusives and that PSN+ is actually a really great service but they literally just don't care. A lot of them are my friends too and we end up getting into arguements all the time. They still use tired and old arguements of "Playstation has no games" or "360 has better online". I show them all the exclusives and they just scoff. I know for a fact they are pretending they don't care since i've shown a few of them trailers/gameplay from certain exclusives and they get super excited. Then I tell them it's a PS3 exclusive and they go straight to hating it. It's kind of ridiculous and actually upsets me since a fair amount of these people are my friends.

I have no idea why their hatred for Sony outweighs their love of videogames. I still feel like  most of the people who prefer the 360 only do so because it's popular atm. The media loves Microsoft and loves to hate Sony, especially at the beginning of the gen. People here still associate Sony with all that negativity from its launch. Which astounds me because if you were a REAL gamer you would realize that things are way different now compared to back then.

I really feel like Microsoft could only make barbie and sesame street games from now on, but as long as the media and microsofts marketing makes people believe they are the best, people would still say 360 > PS3. It's a shame and I wish a lot of those superficial "gamers" would simply leave.

I feel you man. As I said before and although it is harsh, but its just plain simple: MS feeds on the consumer's stupidity of following fads and getting brainwashed into not being able to make up their own minds. Its a problem of people nowadays that wherever the masses go, they think they need to go there to be "hip".

Personally at the time when I bought the 360 over 3 years ago I genuinely thought that it was offering something unique in the multiplayer front. But I am a gamer at heart and not someone who just follows trends, so I could clearly see that the PS3 is just offering MUCH more than MS has been offering for the past few years. You really can't argue against the fact that MS have been riding on Halo and Gears to sell people shooters, which is the current "hip" thing, while Sony has a library that is far more diverse in genres. Even when you don't consider the games and just the pure service, MS is pretty much charging you $50 for cross game chat and kinect/bing dashboard support. Perhaps you should ask your friends, even if they don't care about the games, do they really feel that paying $50 a year for cross game chat and waving your hands at the dashboard really worth it? Because everyhing else MS has Sony and other platforms offer for free. But unfortunately I don't think any of this will help since they have been brainwashed into thinking MS is great my the media and their friends.

If you are truly a gamer, you should be able to rise above all this fanboy media brainwashing crap and see who is truly offering the best services at the most value price. The truth is evidently clear from that which is deceitful. That said if someone really enjoys MS console for Halo and Gears and they truly don't like the games other platform holders have to offer (unlikely but possible), I have no problems with those people. Them paying MS is fine because they made up their own minds and enjoy what they enjoy.

The reason why people compare it is because Sony already has a free service comparable to Xbox Live. It's used as a competitive factor because it goes above and beyond for gamers if that make it easier to understand. Its no Valve, but still.