XBL may not be what its worth......PART 2.....
128 days 9 hours ago
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Coolrah
So I'm back......and E3 brought alot of good surprises for us. Xbox live users will get easier direct access to their facebook and myspace accounts from your xbox live dashboard. Now I know some people are complete drones when it comes to these websites and spend hours upon hours on facebook on myspace and its utterly sad. (Then again where mindless gamer drones so we can't talk) But I digress.
This particular blog talks about if XBL is really all whats its cracked up to be and why we should even pay for it when its direct competitor, the PSN, in some ways offers the same or even more to some people in terms of content or user interface selection and easy-to-useness. Now in my other blog xbox live numbers were sitting at between 17-18 mil users. The lastest release of numbers for xbox gold and silver live members added up to roughly above 20 mil. Thats a 2 mil increase although we don't know if their silver or gold but its safe to say microsoft is pleased at the increase. The only real dilema was that the article also had 360 at 30 milllion consoles sold. Thats more or less 10 million people of all of xbox customers not signed up to live. I mean thats still 30-35% people not paying for it. Now if you looked at psn numbers they were actually higher than the amount of consoles sold which further proves the point that since its free then more peope will do it. Also alot of psn users have multiple accounts solely for the other region psn stores such as the UK or the JP PSN stores as they offer different content across regions.
After all this I still don't see how one online service is leaps and bounds better than the other. Mainly for the sole fact that they roughly have the same amount of content. You could argue XBL has cross ingame chat or global ingame music. You could also argue PSN has Game Sharing with 3 other PS3's or the Web Browser. Either way, I personally in my "opinion" think that you shouldn't have to pay for live. Mainly for the fact that for online gaming which is what they were solely created for they both excel. I mean people try to argue that XBL has a better connection since its on a P2P server. But if you use a good strong reliable Wired connection like me you won't be able to tell the difference. A good example is how KZ2 hanldes its online mode (which I love btw... not that if the "host leaves then the entire game ends" BS that happens on COD4 or Halo3) Amazing graphics and 32 people all shooting and battleing it out and theres no lag. So I mean it largely depends on your preferences and online connection but I think its foolish to continue paying for something after you've forked over 200 bucks and then have to pay 50 bucks a year to play with my friends.
So Discuss.....again....
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