Xbox Live vs PSN.. What's the difference?

[QUOTE="nini200"]

And I quote ....

[QUOTE="wraigth"][QUOTE="DireOwl"]

With XBOX LIVE you actually can keep your credit card info safe.

Desmonic

if you're a democrat who doesn't mind the thought of criminals stealing off you, then not much.

YoYo278

Xbox Live: You pay for quality

PSN: You don't play and sometimes the connection sucks

There.

[QUOTE="MacaroniMoses"]Wait until you bring a new PS3 game home all ready to play it and see that the game needs to be updated... todd2r

I have to agree.

Its pretty much steam>XBL>PSN>Nintendo Online for me.

Xbox Live: You pay for quality

PSN: You don't play and sometimes the connection sucks

There.

tjricardo089

I have both and have a decent sized friends list on both, but I tend to use Xbox Live more often.

The biggest plus for me is the party system. It includes, yes, party chat, but also cross game invites that work with every game. Game launching. And the fact that it's built into the system at the OS level is nice so it's not dependent on a developer to activate it.

The policy enforcement staff and other community managers make me feel like they're paying attention.

So those things are nice and really help to separate XBL from PSN.

Then again, those are my own reasons and it should go without saying that mileage will vary from person to person.

Not a whole lot. Party chat on XBL, and I find downloads to be slower on PSN. On the silver side of things, I like the user interace and XBLA better, but that's just personal preference.

psn store is better then xbox market place for sure..

free_milk

I've had a 360 for 5 years, and I've never used cross-game/party chat...

PSN is fine.

[QUOTE="nini200"][QUOTE="Desmonic"]

Desmonic

It's not a hack of Xbox live (at least not that I can tell) but still doesn't change the fact people have lost money over Xbox live and there hasn't been any proof of loss over the PSN hack :P

None. Just the same. The only difference is that Xbox Live likes ripping you off. You know what Microsoft is like.

I don't give a s**t, you idiot. You're the moron for quoting me and assuming that I give a damn.

Haiyama

So you're just wasting everyones time, including yours.

Congrats, hopefully one day you'll do something productive in life, like getting your Internet access removed.

Xbox Live: You pay for quality

PSN: You don't play and sometimes the connection sucks

There.

tjricardo089

The actual connection's the same man, p2p (Peer to Peer). That's misinformation is you think otherwise, not even Xbox claim to have better connections or control over lag. Sure, I could insert a cliche PSN Summer 2011 hack reference/joke, but in all seriousness I'm talking day to day game online play. For instance, I play ONLINE Star Wars : The Old Republic, GeoW3, Killzone 3, Battlefield 3, and Halo Reach all the time, No problems. If you had some poor connection experience, don't tell me, blame your ISP or your gear for the most part.

I know I've run into connection issues on PC, Xbox, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, DS, Laptop, PSP, Phone, and a variety of other machines, and 9/10 it's not the manufacturers fault, it's my ISP or something in my gear.

As far as other differences, like Party Chat or X-Game Voice Chat, yes Xbox Live in that regard for sure. I use it all the time, but actual connection issues, no, they are the same....unless a game has dedicated servers, then it is usually better. That's a game by game issue though.

I'm not here to argue the differences between Live, PSN, Steam, Wii, or any other service. I can say that Xbox Live is good, definitely have no problem with that. I've gone into great detail in the past, but this subject is old hat and I don't want to repeat what others have said or I have said in the past many, many times.

I'm only here to address the misinformation of Live somehow controlling lag better, which is not the case at all.

I have had a 360 since 2006 and a PS3 since 2007. I personally don't think XBL is worth $60, cross game chat is great though, I used it all the time when I had Live. There is just as much lag on 360 as there is on PS3.

I started buying my multiplat games on PS3 because I know I never have to renew my account just to go online.

Another thing I find disapointing with XBL is how you have to have XBL Gold just to use apps that are found free on my web brower, ESPN3, Facebook, and why should I have to have a Gold account to use the Netflix app if I am already a subscriber to Netfix.

PSN is fine, people who say otherwise just haven't played PSN yet.

The updates can sometimes be annoying, but they don't happen as often as people say, and who doesn't like their system/games to improve. I never understood why people think updates are a negative thing.

I've had a 360 for 5 years, and I've never used cross-game/party chat...

PSN is fine.

FeedOnATreeFrog