They're completely different things tho, once you add crackdown to your download list you own the title forever, I can disconnect my 360 from the net and always have that game on the system, Once your psn+ account expires so does you having Hitman. I know that obviously if you always have both services then Psn does offer newer games, but the games with gold are your licences forever.

I don't think MS is just giving away random games. Most of the games seem to relate to games coming to the X1.

Fable 3- Fable Anniversary releasing/potential Fable 4 announcement@ Gamescom
AC2- AC: Black Flag
Crackdown- Crackdown 3 most likely announcement@ Gamescom
DeadRising 2/Case Zero- Dead Rising 3 for X1

Only one without a connection is Defense Grid. 

Perhaps they're just wishing they had a defense grid to protect the X1 from all the internet hate? :D

Great points tho, drum up interest in upcoming possible games, could be a great move + you got happy fans who use gold, always good.

Good point but all your purchases are in the cloud so why don't you delete the games and stuff that you are no longer playing. You can always redownload them later. It is your games and money so do as you please. 

Yeah please don't think I just install everything and leave it there hah, I do maintenence on which games I have installed every month or so. Since I have an original model 360 it's loud as all hell if playing games from the disk tho so I really do need to install one if I wanna play it a while, ontop of that the games I enjoy the most are ones with massive amounts of DLC Fallout3GOTY, Fallout new vegas Goty, Forza4+most of its dlc and then Super Street fighter 4 arcade edition 2012. Ontop of that I picked up Rockband3 + sleeping dogs in the games on demand sale and my net isn't really great so I don't fancy redownloading their 16gb or so ever hah.

It's a pain in the ass for me, you dunno how much I would love to have a few TB harddrives to install all of my 360 games onto hahah http://i.imgur.com/d7F9ips.jpg imagine how long it would take to do them all :D

It took PS+ years to start getting really good games. Games with Gold got really good games from the start, but not the more "modern" releases like PS+ gets. But again, it took years for PS+ to get there. No way GwG would match it day one. Plus there is a big difference between the games you get on each service, what with the PS+ games being rentals and the GwG games being actual free games you keep.

Would explain the damage control from MS since E3 lol. The hate seems to have slown down at least. 

Never beaten Crackdown/DR2 so I'm happy with these two choices. Wouldn't be suprised to see Forza 3 or Forza 4 (hopefully 4) as one of the free games. 

I don't think the hate has really died down I think it's more the people with legit concerns about their policys stopped wanting to be called playstation fanboys for mentioning being worried about it, I know I sure as hell did..... Saying that since E3 I did buy a Ps3 :D if you're going to be called a fanboy of it you might as well get to enjoy it right?

Yup it took PS Plus almost exactly 2 years to introduce the "Instant game collection". I wouldn't say GWG offers "free" games since you need to be a gold member to pay. Yes you get to keep them, but these games Microsoft is giving out are basically games that you could probably get nowadays for less than a dollar (used). It's still nice though, free games is just an added bonus to Live subscribes, even if the games are old, they're still giving out pretty decent games (according to their metacritic). 

Although some countries are getting Shadowrun instead of Crackdown. I feel bad for them =P

I don't get what you mean by this? I don't have to be online on my PSN to play my PS Plus games. As long as I'm subscribed I can play them, no internet connection required.