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Is Xbox 360 Dominating the Online Experience?

Over the past few days there have been multiple comments being made about the superiority of the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Service and its superiority to the PS3. It's no secret that this generation is the online and connected generation for consoles. Many fans of the PS3 mock the Xbox 360's paid service Xbox Live, because of the fact that Playstation Network is free. But as the old saying goes…You get what you pay for.
Comments like those from Chet Falisek the Left 4 Dead project lead stating " the 360 is head and shoulders above the PS3? and that it's multiplayer-focused Left 4 Dead franchise isn't headed to Ps3 , lead me to believe that while you may not see exactly what you are paying for in your Xbox Live subscription per say. You do gain the benefits of a subscription based service that is constantly growing and evolving to enhance the community aspects of games. Apparently many designers are taking that into consideration when deciding on whether or not they want to publish on both the PS3 and Xbox 360.
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Published: 45 days 17 hours ago | Article | Xbox 360
 
 

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lurkurgus - 45 days 4 hours ago
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Most of the time the only problem is the journalists, moreso then the actual 360 players. Maybe if they would stop throwing flame bait out there we could stop all this fighting. (Dominating really? I'd say "more rich" or something")

Honestly, the 50 dollars a year should play that big of a decision in your console. If you can afford a console and games then you should be able to afford 50 a year.
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FishCake9T4 - 45 days 3 hours ago
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Live>PSN
You get what you pay for
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JustTheFactsMam - 45 days ago
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Google is free. Facebook is free. Twitter is free. Pretty good company if it's true you get what you pay for. You get market leadership.

Enjoy paying for access to the free apps above. If your over 18. If your under 18 your not allowed to access them even though your paying for it. PSN is free so your never have to worry about that.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1...

Also looks like free services scale better than paid. MS 16 players. SONY 256 players.

Enjoy paying for less gaming on your gaming console. It's fine. Just don't claim Live>PSN when it's clearly not.
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bjornbear - 45 days 2 hours ago
3 - I beg to differ...
It just depends on how much you value €50...
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Petebloodyonion - 45 days 2 hours ago
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Here's some points that I never hear when it comes to LIVE

Live account interaction: How many ppl use LIVE on a PC? well I have a lot of my friends who play games on pc but use a Live account so it's a good way to have interaction with them.

Games like 100 vs 1 and other Lives events, contest and others

no cheaters: Guess what when I shoot a guy in COD4 they die, they don't stand there, turn around and HS me in a window of 5 sec. They don't snipe me from 2222222222222222222 miles at the end of the map.

exclusive DLC like GTA: Yeah I know, M$ paid them a truckload of money to make theses DLC. But isn't why I'm paying them money? so they can use it to secure these kind of deal?

And for the record I have nothing to say against PSN. It's solid, free and had no problem playing games.
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tordavis - 44 days 23 hours ago
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Laughs at all the people who claim $4 a month is expensive. Cigarettes cost more than that and they end up killing you.
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Drake64 - 44 days 23 hours ago
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Does XBL have home? No
Is XBL free? No
Can it access YouTube? No
Can you go any website you want? No
Does it have trophies? No
PS3 also has netflix now too

XBL for stupid americans who play lil kiddie games
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tordavis - 44 days 21 hours ago
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"Does XBL have home? No
Is XBL free? No
Can it access YouTube? No
Can you go any website you want? No
Does it have trophies? No
PS3 also has netflix now too

XBL for stupid americans who play lil kiddie games"

Hey dude, this aint the cold war. Stop lumping up all Americans as stupid. Let's show the world how stupid you are:

Does XBL have home? No and XBL users don't want a 1yr old beta
Is XBL free? No But Qore and items in Home cost moneh
Can it access YouTube? No but that's what I have computer for
Can you go any website you want? No but that's what I have a computer for and I can access HULU can you?
Does it have trophies? No but it copied trophies from Achievements which XBL does have
PS3 also has netflix now too - Ok everyone that has PSN get online right now and queue up some movies.

Oh boy am I gonna get hate for this post.

XBL for GAMERS all over the world who enjoy the entertainment that it offers.
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Elven6 - 43 days 22 hours ago
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XBL is free, it's Gold that costs money dude, also, why would you want Home? That's such a niche thing that a fragment of the gaming audience would be into. I think you're forgetting Achievements were the first to standardize such rewards on consoles, maybe even PC.

You can run a browser on an Xbox 360 via Windows Media Center, infact, you can even get a plugin to stream videos from Youtube, Vimeo, Daily Motion, etc all for free.
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VirusOz - 44 days 20 hours ago
7 - Lmao ok
Live is 5 bucks a month, if you can't afford that you shouldn't even be playing video games...Come on, I can snag up 5 bucks by just looking underneath my couch cushions. I mean the 5 bucks are worth it too, more active community, and alot of my friends have 360s. Playstation3 is free, but it dosn't match up to Live YET... What i think sony should do is throw a mic in their ps3 bundles, that way it can make the community more active. I mean when i play CoD4 on my ps3 it's always just a dead silence. More active community = more fun expierence and meet some cool people. I met some of the coolest people on Live.

Ps. Fighting games for PS3 all the way..

Psn: Husky-Donut
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LiQuiFiedArt - 44 days 19 hours ago
8 - Its not XBL that is better...
...Its Microsoft's Operating System for the 360 that is better.

Regardless paying monthly service charges "to use" an operating system is beyond acceptable (in my opinion). Not to mention people seem to forget, the games are developed with online functionality, you are iterally paying a middle man (for no reason) just to use the game as it was developed to be used!!!

Why do you lamers not understand that simple fact?
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The Kingslayer - 44 days 17 hours ago
9 - To add
Insult to injury if I drop a burger on the floor and gave it to you for free would you eat it because it was free food?

Point is, just because PSN is free does not mean its a better service. The worst part is that PSN has not been what it is now since it's launch. Xbox live has been solid from day one, and gotten better. The fact that basic chat in game isn't part of PSN is a blow that keeps it away from being a gamers paradise. Not to say it won't have it one day, but what makes Xbox Live such a great place has more to do with the whole seamless experience.

The moment you turn your system on, and sign into your profile the game and system experience opens up. Paying for that is easy, and really makes the cake. Then to have communication with headset as standard your gaming experience is just on another level.

Does this mean that the PS3's online experience is bad? No, but it's just not better. This article could have shown this with examples, but I like where it's going.

Also you have to take the recent Battlefield Bad Company 2 beta into account as a very reason why having a solid online platform is critical. You guys are looking forward to it on the PS3, and promoting it as your choice over MW2. So when a developer says Xbox live is rock solid for the online experience. Wouldn't that indicate it's better?

At some point the PS3's online experience is going to come together, when it does then I'm demanding that Microsoft make Xbox live free. Not to stay competitive, but the experience isn't valid if my PS3 has every last thing...That's the key...Every last thing!

Be a gamer...Not a hater
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