10 Things That Sony And Microsoft Need To Fix

blackboyunltd - 483 days 3 hours ago

wow this is actually a good list, i guess it wasnt written by a fanboy

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htownplaya - 483 days 3 hours ago

good points.

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ogwilson - 483 days 3 hours ago

Nice points.

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Rice - 483 days 2 hours ago

Wow, this is like a first, a non bias articlee...woo hoo!!!

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PoSTedUP - 483 days 2 hours ago

dont get me wrong this article has great points but it kinda contradicts its self on one of them here take a look...

"Sony needs to make the PSN community more “friendly” by either making headsets that are available at a reasonable price (weather it be bluetooth or wired) or just make gamers want to hook up their headsets and talk with other players. I know most people won’t like this but they can take some tips from Xbox Live."

basically what this paragraph is saying that it would be better and more "user friendly" if sony were to include a free head set with every ps3 or make them alot cheaper were even the very poor people can afford them so EVERYONE can talk. now check this out....

"Clean Up The Live Experience: Microsoft needs to do something to deal with all the racist nonsense and just overall foolishness that is a small majority of the Xbox Live Community. Their “report” system sucks and the rep really does nothing."

well... XBlive is so nasty and raciest because MS supplied EVERYONE with a free flimsy head set so EVERYONE gets the right to talk and speak there mind ya know. thats why XBlive is theway it is. now if sony were to include a free cheesy headset in every ps3 i garentee AnalogueHype would be asking sony and PSN to stop being racist and prejudice because EVERYONE would be speaking theor mind ya feel me. so all in all im glad sony didnt give EVERYONE the right to talk cause nowadays most people are assholes XD no offense but even the little kids are racist and nasty. thats why the majority of PSN is mostly adults cause you have to pay 20$-100$ for a headset.

but good non-biased article nonetheless : )

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big shadow - 483 days 2 hours ago

no fanboy writing an article. woo hoo

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Greedy Genius - 483 days 1 hour ago

flame bait free

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Immortal Kaim - 483 days 1 hour ago

I respectfully disagree. MS doesn't include a free headset in console bundles, which means that people are going out and buying these headsets (which come in a 12month live subscription for example). So why don't Sony start making cheaper headsets available? Because of racist comments? I think the priority is to get a decent reporting system (MS's is hopeless) which will be the foundations for a 'friendlier' online experience.

Nice article

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Covenant - 483 days 1 hour ago

Pretty good article...reminds us that no consoles are perfect, no matter how much the fanboys like to pretend they are.

There's always room for improvement.

Now, if both MS and Sony would read that list and actually follow some of its suggestions...

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arjunanand1 - 483 days 1 hour ago

Finally, something that does not reek of fanboyism !!

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heyheyhey - 482 days 23 hours ago

reasonable article, but i have an issue

Sony have went on record many times saying how they are working very hard on Home and how they are taking so long to get it right

they have made several great presentations about Home and are working their hardest to make it available for everyone thise year- so why keep complaining about it?

on a side note: just 5 complaints regarding the Xbox 360 is not nearly enough in my opinion

Microsoft really need to iron out the embarassments regarding hardware issues- RROD is still at large and the console still scratches disks and still sounds like a jet taking off

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The Swordsman - 482 days 18 hours ago

These delays have really annoyed me. The PS3 being delayed here in Europe and in other PAL regions was bad enough, but one of the games that got me to buy the PS3, Tekken 6, which was first shown(in teaser form, but so was MGS4) at E3 2005, has still not been released on PS3(it has been in arcades, but only in arcades). Unlike the other major game in this position, Killzone 2, there has been nearly no news on the PS3 version recently(not counting all those rumours of a 360 version), the last thing I read about the game was an article about the North American release of the arcade version. If anything, this has caused me to just lose my enthusiasm for the game.

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cereal_killa - 482 days 11 hours ago

Ex God props to you on this article, this is probably the most unbiased article I've seen on this site since I joined, I really wish they would post more articles here like this.

@Postedup I agree with what your saying about the headsets but I also disagree for a different reason I'm sorry to say but it doesn't matter whether you get free head sets or not there will always be someone who hides behind a mic an blasts out raciest and obscene language online i don't care what network it s on (360 or PS3). No one is free n clear from this sort of thing they need to be more moderated i would never pay for online but if they are going to charge then they should put that money into this sort of thing, if they had better moderating then i could see a good reason to pay for online service.

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Cajun Chicken - 483 days 3 hours ago

...at this point in the gen, read them see what I mean.
Do any of you seriously see most of the MS tips actually happen?
The guy's basically asking for the console to be a NEW machine! Don't believe me? Read it!

Whilst Sony's is actually very achievable in half a year in my opinion, if they continue at this respectable recent pace.

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Zulwarn - 483 days 1 hour ago

is to leave the console world

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ABACAB72 - 483 days 1 hour ago

The tips that the poster left on the site for MS are all reasonable. At least to us on the outside looking in. The thing is it's asking MS to put a lot more accessability into the consumers hands. The way people are talking, it probably won't be a bad thing if they include BluRay. If can help the games get better, than it's a win. As far as the HDD issue, I totally agree with that. Either that, or lower the prices of the HDD substantially. MMOs...I'm still on the fence with that. Cleaning up SBL...self-explanatory. And they need to bring more user created content into their system as well. All the reasons (excuses) that they usually give for not doing it makes no sense to me. They've created their set up, they can work something out to make sure that the user created content is above board and no bugs or pornographic material is used. It works for the PC and the PS3, there's no reason why it can't work for the 360. Besides with the XNA setup happening this fall, it just may turn around.

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Dyingduck - 483 days ago

MS totally flopped their console - check out the things they need to do vs PS3...ROFL

PS3 = minor upgrade
360 = Get surgery

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MC_KOOL_K - 483 days ago

try fixing the ring of death first

sonys online service will get better {skype would be sweet}

why in the latest part of the store, is there a load of crap wallpapers
wallpapers should stay in the wallpaper section

please make the writing bigger and more clear as to what the f++k it is your about to download {downloaded two psp crap by mistake}

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Bathyj - 482 days 21 hours ago

I agree with Skype, great idea and I agree with BC on all models. Things have got better and Sony should bare the cost to bring it back now. If they did this PS2 would start to phased out a bit sooner, and it would make the migration to PS3 go a lot better.

I dont with the headset. People keep whining about things like HDMI cables and headsets not being included. They exspect Sony to buy these things for everyone, while alot of people wont use them and in the same breathe complain PS3 costs to much. Plus it would bring the quality of the room down if everyone was there. Call me snob, but I think if your not motionvated enough to obtain ANY Blutooth headset, then you probably should be talking outloud online. Sony have done exactly the same thing we love about the HDD. Left it up to us what we use, not made a headset with a Sony stamp on it, and its the only thing that works, you can only use theirs.

I'll disagree with the Delays and Home as 1 issue. I'm sorry, but I'm sick of this generation of games and their "Close enough is close enough to finished, cos we can patch it later" attitude. From the time I had to wait 3 years for the first MGS on PSOne, I knew I had to be patient if I was to be a gamer. Good things take alot of time. RUSHED things turn out crap, RRoD you very much. Has Home even been delayed that much? I thought it didn't have date most of the time. I mean a real date. You cant hold them down to much with someting like Spring, or Summer. Those aren't dates, those are seasons. If they knew exactly themselves they would narrow it down abit from a 1/4 of a year.

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