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....
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
this is why I wont get a 360.
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...none of which will describe how dumb this blog is.
im done paying for live the only game i want to play is splinter cell and not splinter cell online
to answer you question its the same with every mmo you know that you have to pay for the game to play online. but you dont have to pay to use the service for the game that you have to pay for online get what im saying. paying for xbl is a double whammy. id pay for wow on ps3 without a problem.
"XBL may not be what its worth"
And he uses the word "may" because he doesn't own the console and hasn't used the service.
We going through this again? Why don't you PS3 folks just play PSN and stop trying to tell XBL gamers there service isn't worth it when you have no idea what you're talking about.
And it's not even "roughly" the same amount of content on both services. XBL has more. And it's not just a couple features like cross game chat/text, even if Sony had those tomorrow it would still be missing a laundry list of features. XBL has been around a lot longer, it's a more mature service and it shows.
Also with just a little bit of searching you can find deals on XBL subs. I know some people who have never payed $50 a year for live and they've been on the service for longer than I have.
Your argument is just as weak as part1.