No doubts

MS is very happy since yesterday.

I don't doubt the results, but the study seems extremely vague, even to the point where it's not really useful at all. It uses extremely vague metrics to measure the differences, and for all I know, the differences measured by the metrics could range from neglible to crushing. I'm saying the study MS is so proudly referring to seems completely worthless.

It's also pretty shady to do a study of two gaming networks and then declare one of them 'the best gaming network' when the rest are ignored. Obviously there aren't many, but adding Steam at the very least would add a lot to this study.

They've probably done a lot of things unrelated to this study during those two months. I skimmed through the actual study, and it didn't sound like they actually tested very rigorously. The only way they could have spent very much time on the study is by testing again and again until they got the results they wanted. I kind of doubt they did, but it's possible.

Well, the alternatives are PSN and the Nintendo Network. So its basically an insta-win.

So it was based on 5 of the top games recently? so... I'm guessing that rules out the Nintendo Network since it would be 3rd party games on both X1/PS4 also... could look at a sign of volume of players using an online service, I mean there is complaints of queue times/latency and such now in WoW because of the expansion launch and people playing it, Very few complaints about those things for the last 12 months while the player numbers were down.

I'm just saying if they are taking a sample of satisfaction from a direct number of complaints about either service you would have to divide that figure by 2 before even starting to look at how much the extra amount of people using psn over xbl would effect the service. I mean you could run the most enjoyable bus service in the world if you had a bus with one person on it, they'd have the time of their lives compared to a bus full of people, doesn't mean the full bus is in trouble though.

Said independant so you can only take that at face value really, MS didn't pay for it but the indpendant group would still get a lot of interest and advertising based on a result which suggests that 44 million players are using an inferior service for online gaming.

And yeah it was based on 5 of the recent high profile 3rd party titles which rules out the Nintendo Network.

Oh, sorry. I thought you thought they spent two months on this study, which would indeed seem like a lot for this amount of games. :P

Independent probably means just that the study was done by a third party, i.e. not Microsoft. They could still have funded it. Also, the study itself states that only XBL and PSN were studied.

Is this really a suprise to anyone? Xbox live is a lot better but psplus has improved but if you try to say that psplus is better you're probably just a fanboy (I'm not talking about games that they give away that's opinon) Microsoft does a tremendous job with live imo

Haha yea.