Okay so up until recently I may not have been qualified to talk about this but on Sunday I bought a PS3, and while I was going to blog about my thoughts on the system itself I'll reserve that for another time. Instead I thought I'd talk about why I pay a measly $50 a year for Xbox Live.
Let me first say I have not even attempted to play a game online yet, heck I don't even own a game for the PS3 yet, but I have used it online.
Having a new PS3 I wanted to check out a few demos, well its 9:27 p.m. now and I can finally go check out the two demos I have been downloading since 6:00 p.m. THREE AND A HALF HOURS to download two little demos. Sure I am using Wi Fi to do it but that is a LONG time to have to wait for a demo to download. The PSN store is okay to browse but for me its nothing like the Xbox Live Marketplace. Browsing the store with a pointer seems very arcane and not fun at all.
This evening while waiting for my demos to download I jumped onto Xbox Live, downloaded a new Rock Band track, picked up a free episode of an Anime cartoon played some Rock Band while the episode was downloading and ended my Live session in about a half hour.
Now that my demos have completed downloading I have to go install them apparently?
All this and I have no idea if my friend who owns a PS3 is online. But I had 5 friends online before on Xbox Live and I knew exactly what they were doing.
Don't get me wrong I'm enjoying my PS3 for what its worth but for the people that complain about their $50 a year Xbox Live and brag about the free PSN network really don't know what they are talking about. And actually even a Silver Live account gets you free demos etc that certainly don't take all night to complete.
For now I guess I'll play those demos tomorrow, its getting late, and I've got a Blue-ray movie to watch.
1 comments:
I do know what I'm talking about. PSN is better. It uses dedicated servers, that means unlike Live's Peer to peer, you're not paying to use your own bandwidth, games can have more players in a game, faster matchmaking, less lag, no host advantage, and are less vulnerable to lag attacks.
And PS3 downloadable titles are not limited to 150 megabytes
http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2008/01
I don't have to buy stupid points, I can use real dollars in the store. And PS3s DRM is so lax you can download files to 5 PS3s and 5 PSPs.
That's why Live isn't worth paying for, it's WORSE than a free service. AND it has advertisements all over the interface.
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