Army of Two assistant producer, Matt Turner has told CVG that he fully supports PSN, but admitted experiencing "growing pains" with the relatively young system.
With its friends list access, universal game invites system and general intuitiveness, Xbox Live is rightly regarded as the superior service. Turner says, however, that PSN "has all the capabilities".
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Neil writes: "With the delay of many AAA titles, and the move into the summer period, it is still a little quiet on the new games front. But that in turn at least gives us the chance to crack on with knuckling down with our huge list of older games that we've been meaning to play. It does however also mean that in order to keep that backlog list topped up, even more Xbox games will need to be purchased - and that is where the latest Xbox Deals With Gold and Spotlight Sale comes in. The latest one - that working between the 7th-13th July 2020 - offers plenty of great discounts on numerous Xbox One and Xbox 360 titles."
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The only problem I have with PSN is the download speeds. It takes forever and a day to download a demo while I get it in 1/8th of the time on Xbox Live. Hopefully the download speed will improve over time.
Why is EA coming out of the woodwork lately with PS3 praises? Their next few games better reflect on their newly found affections.
Xbox live is better even though it costs you an arma and a leg. But of course being the fanboy i am i cant see that psn is better because its free.
Sure does know when to jump "in" the bandwagon....
Its crazy to think that PS3 actually outsold Xbox360 in 2007. And that was with a general consensus that 360 had the better library. 2008 is going to be fun to watch, even though I own both consoles.
As for PSN, a committed developer can use the existing tools to create an experience equivalent to Xbox Live on PS3, but from what I hear the friend's list is costly to memory. The TimeShift demo lets you bring up your XMB Friend's list from the pause menu. This is OK, but Sony really needs to get the friend's list (or in-game xmb) in the firmware so it works on every game.
Friend's list access should not be should be left up to developer support.