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Snake612 on 14 November 2008

When the Xbox was released in 2002, they debuted it with the Xbox Live. However, Xbox LIVE still couldn't compete with the amazing PS2 sales during PS2 first 2 years. I always thought if Sony decide to debut Playstation Network with the PS2, would Xbox Live face fierce competition?and Would PSN be 10x better than it is now? The most important question is would PSN and Xbox Live have almost he same amount of users online? 

 

What do you guys think would have happen? 



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Snake612 on 14 November 2008

@axumblade, just think about how much things would be different. I guess things happen for a reason. Sony wasn't always going to be #1. They get a second chance next generation.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 14 November 2008
Snake612 said:

When the Xbox was released in 2002, they debuted it with the Xbox Live. However, Xbox LIVE still couldn't compete with the amazing PS2 sales during PS2 first 2 years. I always thought if Sony decide to debut Playstation Network with the PS2, would Xbox Live face fierce competition?and Would PSN be 10x better than it is now? The most important question is would PSN and Xbox Live have almost he same amount of users online? 

 

What do you guys think would have happen? 

 

PSN wouldn't have  been what it is today or this gen without the existence of Xbox live. Sony would've never thought of what PSN has today on their own. Dreamcast would've but Sony wouldn't.



Seraphic_Sixaxis on 14 November 2008

Imo, if there was no Xbox Live there would be no PSN, i hate to say it but Sony realized the power and sucess of the "Online" world most likely from Xbox Live. and thats how PSN was thought of, BUT as for how well both services are PSN will catch up to XBL one day thats for certain, its all ready doing pretty well now imo.



BMaker11 on 14 November 2008
Snake612 said:

When the Xbox was released in 2002, they debuted it with the Xbox Live. However, Xbox LIVE still couldn't compete with the amazing PS2 sales during PS2 first 2 years. I always thought if Sony decide to debut Playstation Network with the PS2, would Xbox Live face fierce competition?and Would PSN be 10x better than it is now? The most important question is would PSN and Xbox Live have almost he same amount of users online? 

 

What do you guys think would have happen? 

As of right now, PSN has about 14 million users. Xbox LIVE is a little over 10 million, but you have to take into account that it's Gold and Silver subscriptions combined, meaning not 10 million people actually play each other. With PSN, all those people can play each other so from a pure numbers standpoint, PSN already has more users than XBL

Edit: And I know multiple accounts can be made, but the same can be done on one Xbox with a Silver subscription



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Seraphic_Sixaxis on 14 November 2008
BMaker11 said:
Snake612 said:

When the Xbox was released in 2002, they debuted it with the Xbox Live. However, Xbox LIVE still couldn't compete with the amazing PS2 sales during PS2 first 2 years. I always thought if Sony decide to debut Playstation Network with the PS2, would Xbox Live face fierce competition?and Would PSN be 10x better than it is now? The most important question is would PSN and Xbox Live have almost he same amount of users online? 

 

What do you guys think would have happen? 

As of right now, PSN has about 14 million users. Xbox LIVE is a little over 10 million, but you have to take into account that it's Gold and Silver subscriptions combined, meaning not 10 million people actually play each other. With PSN, all those people can play each other so from a pure numbers standpoint, PSN already has more users than XBL

I never thought of it that way, but yeah your right lol.

 



SaviorX on 14 November 2008

It might not have impacted the Live that much, but PSN would probably work better now, and Home may have been released quicker.



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Jackson50 on 14 November 2008
BMaker11 said:As of right now, PSN has about 14 million users. Xbox LIVE is a little over 10 million, but you have to take into account that it's Gold and Silver subscriptions combined, meaning not 10 million people actually play each other. With PSN, all those people can play each other so from a pure numbers standpoint, PSN already has more users than XBL

Edit: And I know multiple accounts can be made, but the same can be done on one Xbox with a Silver subscription

 

I am fairly certain your numbers for PSN and XBL members are incorrect. In May of this year XBL had 12 million members and PSN had 8 million. It would be appreciated if you provided some sources to corroborate your numbers. 



Pristine20 on 14 November 2008

I don't think the ps2 could have supported such a feature anyway



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Seraphic_Sixaxis on 14 November 2008
Pristine20 said:
I don't think the ps2 could have supported such a feature anyway

 

 If it was DVD disk-based it could have.