Michael C Black returns to CalmDownTom to cast a critical eye over Xbox Live Gold vs PS+
The Xbox 360 launched in North America 18 years ago, and is now officially old enough to buy you a drink in Europe.
Great platform, and many of its games (not bc) still hold up well to this day. Like the PS3, I keep a 360 hooked up for those games you can't play any other way.
The last gasp of greatness from XBox, you are missed, except the RROD that was lame, but amazing exclusives until the Kinect dropped.
I really enjoyed my X360, some great exclusives on it. Used to play the shit out ot Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, two masterpieces
It's been 20 years to the day since Xbox Live brought online play to consoles.
I remember when Live turned five and they had special edition controllers made and everything. Kind of wished they would do that again for the 20th.
Happy Birthday. OG XBL (and later 360 XBL) really revolutionized online gaming on console.
Never understood the obsession with live...but I was gaming online on PC so not sure too much of what live did that the PlayStation didn't.
Today would of been the perfect day to drop halo 2 the original bc version free on gwg.... If only
Xbox Live 1.0, the first instance of online servers for the original Xbox, is set to return via Insignia, a free third-party service that's currently compatible with 20 titles, such as Call of Duty: Finest Hour and Counter-Strike.
Both offer services worth paying for in my opinion.
I have paid for LIVE in the past and now I pay for PS+
I just like the PS+ approach more. I treat it kind of like a nice cheap game rental service with some extra benefits. I think it is well worth the price.
With Xbox Live I used to pay simply to play online. I no longer feel the need to do so and it is the only feature I would use.
Live is great is everything appeals to you, but PS+ suits my lifestyle much better.
I stopped using XBL, as PS+ gives more bang for the bucks.
One thing that kept me at XBL for long was Gears MP and the friendbase I played it with. Also the cross game chat&invite.
But over time it got less important and PSVita showed how PSN CAN pull cross game chat&invite off with the right memory allocation. Too bad PS3 won't get it, but PS4 will.
Sticking with PS+, good thing is, I was a member at launch of the PS+ service too and the stuff from then gets activated again even with 2 years of inactivity in between. Nice.
ps+ offers wayyyy more.
xbox live only lets people play online with each other, which is free on psn....
Pay for both if you can. If you like Free online and a free game rental service Plus. If you like a tailored gaming universe that's suited for online games then Live.
Its so late in the gen, both are great services. Its a matter of preference at this point.
@ any disagrees I would like a reply explaining why. If not, then I'm getting trolled for no reason what so ever.