@RedHemi300c
I never said PSN was better. I said it was a great value, and arguably a better deal, because it comes at no extra cost. I've played on PSN for the past 4 or so years, and it's by-and-large been a reliable and great service. I've had absolutely no complaints at all up until it got hacked recently.
Are you really trying to make a mountain out of a molehill by pointing out 3 weeks of PSN being down? 3 weeks of total, significant downtim...
How can you say Xbox Live Gold is optional when Microsoft forces you to subscribe to it if you want to play online games?
Then again, you may technically be correct in saying Xbox Live Gold is optional; it's optional in the sense that there's an alternative called the PS3 and free PSN.
I believe there was a similar feature in Rainbow Six Vegas 2, where you could make your PS3 or 360 act as a dedicated server or dedicated host. You can't play on the system while hosting at the same time, of course.
It seems like a pretty damn good idea to me; I have absolutely no clue why more games don't do this.
To me, it's not that $60 a year is an altogether unreasonable price for Xbox Live. It's that free PSN is such a damn good deal and value in comparison. It makes me wonder how long Sony will (or can) continue to keep PSN free.
The same argument goes for PC's free online gaming.
MW3 won't have dedicated servers, while Battlefield 3 will.
Guess which one I will be buying this November?
Why would Sony dodge sales when they've always been on pace to surpass the 360 in terms of worldwide consoles sold? Maybe the recent PSN hack/outage will have an adverse and permanent effect on this trajectory, but then again, maybe not.
Every single time Microsoft tries to hype up its 360 sales, it's only mentioning or emphasizing US sales and avoiding mention of worldwide or "Others" sales.
Absolutely atrocious use of grammar in the headline for this article.
Well, Steam is free. I guess I should avoid using that service from this point forward, seeing as how everyone thinks it's non-secure because it's not a pay service.
@Captain Tuttle:
Wasn't Microsoft's Hotmail hacked into a couple weeks ago? I didn't see much news or hullabaloo about it, but I noticed that I was forced to change my Hotmail password recently. I would think having a ton of email accounts with all your private messages and information compromised should be a much bigger debacle than a little bit of personal information on your PS3 (bearing in mind that credit card info was never confirmed to have been compromised...
@Coheno: Chances are, dedicated servers won't even be part of the Elite service. There are too many logistical concerns about doing it that way, such as the fact that Elite players will only be able to play with other Elite players.
For instance, if I were an Elite player, I would not be able to play with my buddies because they aren't Elite players, since they can't play on dedicated servers.
Maybe it could work if they gave you an in-game option...
No dedicated servers = No buy for me.
This Kotaku article just made it a really easy purchase decision between Battlefield 3 and MW3 this November. When rumors briefly circulated that there might be dedicated servers, I was actually really considering getting MW3. Now, I'm going to put my preorder in for BF3.
I think it's retarded if it takes a freaking Bloomberg article to wake Sony up to the potential benefits of a particular business move or acquisition. I mean, what the hell are they thinking? Are all of their internal strategists/analysts in a coma or something?
If it's true that Sony really has this much reserve cash on hand for overseas takeovers, then a lot of people need to be fired if they fail to take advantage of the current state of the economy and make a move...
It sounds like it'd be STUPID for Sony not to acquire Netflix at this point; at least according to the analyst in the article.
I think it'd be a good move too... but what do I know, I'm just an armchair economist.
Great, now stuff like tracking your stats and performance, and creating highlight clips, will be a pay-service? What's next, only Elite members can see their friends' K/D ratios?
What do you mean you are restricted to a certain area? Do you mean there are invisible walls, or you die if you move too far away from the objective?
If pay-to-play is so far-fetched and stupid, then millions of Xbox Live and WoW/MMO subscribers are short a chromosome or two.
I see much better anti-aliasing on the PS3 version: http://www.videogameszone.d...
Don't worry, I'm sure Bitmob, being the completely impartial, objective, non-Sony-hating source of videogame news and analysis that they are, will come out with another article entitled "Top 10 Xbox 360 PR Disasters" in short order.
Yep, all the top emulators have been implementing an optional pixel-smoothing/interpolation filter, such as this one, for many years now. It's nothing new by any means.
I don't really see how this would work well with a Mass Effect game. Do they mean that you wave your arms around to activate a Biotic or Tech ability?
If so, wouldn't it be awkward to have to take your hand off the controller every time you wanted to do something using the Kinect?