You are wrong.
What fluff?
Is it the x-game chat, XBLA arcade titles, faster download speeds, a ridiculously better invite system, voice messages....
I bet you don't have live so how can you honestly make any judgments on what is fluff and what is not.
Edit:
I pay $70 a month for my brand new smart phone and you PS3 fanboys somehow decide to tell me that $5.00 in that same period is too much for me to pay...
Agreed
XBL has been out for 7 years...and this is the 1st increase in price. Although PSN is very comparable, XBL has never been better quality wise, and has never had as many members as it has today.
I don't want to pay more than I already am..thats a given, but if MS is so bad, then why the hell wouldn't they raise the price when they had a monopoly on console online gaming?
Its even funnire to see PS3 fanboys who think that S...
how did you get the machine in the first place?
Did it appear on day out of the blue and now you are forced to buy online...
XBL was offered on the original xbox and when upgrading to the 360 you SHOULD know that XBL isn't free.
Not to mention 98% of the people bitching on the comment boards don't even have a 360 and are fanboys.
The price raise sucks balls, but let the people who own the system or actually we...
a magazine service has ads...and you payed for the magazine. I don't see any difference.
Not to mention the fact that the ads are anything but in your face.
Still buying it.
And here comes the PS3 fanboys speaking as if they speak for everyone.
That includes you.
NO one likes the fact that MS charges more now, but the opinion of the people who don't even have an xbox is kinda worthless.
ANd you are blind if you think Sony could charge for PSN. You are even a more blind if you think they wouldn't charge if they could.
Stop confusing the underdog role that Sony is very successfully playing as them having the...
This article is crap.
He judges old games to today's standards. Certain games don't age well, but that doesn't mean they aren't the greatest games of all time.
technically
I use both PSN and XBL so It's not like I pledge my allegiance to only one online service.
But XBL is still worth it to me.
XBLA Arcade titles
X-Game Chat
Still a lot better user interface for invites and messages.
Voice messages
99% My friends play on XBL
Halo, Gears
I'm not arguing that PSN is better than XBL. Because I don't think its the case. But it is definitely worth it for...
OK great I'm wrong. But when a lot of people amke the decision to pick XBL or PSN if they know that a lot of friends play on XBL they will pick XBL.
all but one of my friends use XBL. I choose XBL. I also choose PSN..but I wouldn't if it wasn't free. I think PSN is great and rivals XBL feature wise, but if it wasn't free a lot of those features don't matter because in the end I wouldn't pay to game with one friend.
Not to mention y...
people answer, you guys just ignore them
the community
The majority of people are playing multiplat online games such as MW2 on XBL.
It doesn't justify the price increase, but that makes XBL a better choice for a lot of people.
Add in Halo:Reach online community and I think that gives a lot of gamers reason to keep XBL around.
Although it sucks that MS is raising prices, they have quite an understandable reason for doing so:
Supply and Demand
People are willing to pay for it and demand the service so MS will keep raising the price.
Like I said, I completely hate the fact that MS is doing it because it costs me more money, but truth is....I will probabaly keep buying it.
and.....boom goes the dynamite
well said
I just don't see how XBL being forced upon us makes it less worth the price. It may not be worth the $50 to you and thats great, but is either worth the price or it isn't.
Although XBL being free would be great.It is so unrealistic to think that MS would make it free. No one is boycotting XBL (yet) because it cost too much and the price hasn't been raised once since launch and it has become exponenitally better service.
I editted :)
techincally you are paying for them though through the price of the subscription.
Not trying to burst anyones bubble, but they technically aren't free.
You cannot compare them.
Individual analysis:
XBL: still worth it to me, but becoming les and less worth the money.
PS+: Not worth it to me, but becoming more and more worth the money.
Agreed. Whats funny is that RDR is one of the best games this year and its multiplat. If I buy it for my 360 when I have both systems, doesn't that completely negate any argument that I have saying that my 360 has no games.
Unless you buy a multiplat game on both systems, its exclsuive for you to the system you buy it for.
I bought MW2 (even though I don't like it anymore)on my 360 because I play with all my friends on XBL. Doesn't that make M...
@Hank
"That's more pre-orders than total sales of Alan Wake and Crackdown 2 combined."
Do you feel better now? I hope you can now get a good night's sleep tonight.
"Isn't it a little late to be coming out with new controllers 5 years after the system launched?"
Now you are making the assumption that there was something wrong with the original.
Stop trolling.