PSN Outages are essentially still a large problem for many gamers all over the world; this might eventually bring some online-only consumers to the Xbox One
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
A recent trophy list published on the PlayStation Network contains hints that Sony is testing PlayStation PC trophies.
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
aah..thats why resigning for ps plus for me is a big question mark. you can throw away the $50 for the advertised benefits as long as you are allowed to stay online..once the outages start..you realize how much better the offline world is...aah the 90s!
The PS4 gets way more traffic than XBL (which happens to be more stable than PSn btw).
The issue is that Sony can't keep up with how many people are buying PS4s.
its definitely annoying but the outages never last more than a few hours(if that).
It's not something that I personally would weigh in when choosing one platform or the other since these outages aren't a weekly problem. Sometimes it goes a mont with no major problems, sometimes it goes less than a week.
If the problem really is too much traffic like others have pointed out then the fix is pretty simple. It would explain why it seems to go down at the worst times like the weekend.
Theres another issue happening on psn so theres a flaw with messages basically you can invite anyone you want to these message chats even if your blocked and not added its getting ridiculous sony needs to patch this im getting reinvited too dam much its getting out of hand
This is the reason I believe Sony scrapped their plans for always online unlike MS. Psn not being stable many people wouldn't be able to even play games if they went through with DRM.
At the meeting "I can already see the complaints we gotta scrap online check in."
"But sir many consoles have already been built and ready. We can't simply hold all of them."
"Just do a software update."
"But that'll require them to connect to the internet, not everyone will have that access."
"Hmmmm......**** it send them an install disk if they need it."
Lol seriously that's how I think it went.