Comments on: Hello Firmware 2.40, Goodbye Xbox Live?

By: Dan Landis

Dan Landis — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:33:07 +0000

She told you!

By: madpuppy

madpuppy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:48:28 +0000

being married for over 7 years I should have known better. :P

By: SeasonedSalt

SeasonedSalt — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:25:08 +0000

I didn’t say I liked the 360, that I wanted one, or that I would get one eventually. I said I played xbox live and liked it meaning in comparison to PSN, but I said I didn’t know if I would be willing to pay for it. I also said I thought about getting a 360 but that doesn’t mean I decided I wanted one. If I really really wanted one, I would just go buy one instead of still thinking about it.

Last gen I only had a PS2 because it came out first. I played the Xbox and it was cool but the controller was too big. If I could do it over again though, I probably would have waited to buy an Xbox. I wanted to avoid that whole “buying the first one” thing this time and didn’t get a 360 and waited for the ps2 since I could trade up. When I finally got one it was one of the ones with limited ps2 playback, so I had to keep my ps2 anyways and I haven’t played any PS3 games yet that have been worth the price and bullshit. I would love to be happy with my purchasing decision but I’m just not.

By: madpuppy

madpuppy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:06:30 +0000

Look to me I was pretty accurate, you own a PS2, you don’t like the PS3. You Like the 360 BUT! you don’t own one and from your statement, you want one or will get one eventually.

so to sum up, the only thing I got wrong was that you own a PS3. hmm, funny, I own both machines and Love the PS3 and am not really impressed with the 360. the previous generation I loved the Xbox and really did not like the PS2 (to many lousy sports games and no in game surround sound)

By: SeasonedSalt

SeasonedSalt — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:04:26 +0000

Wow, you are both so wrong. I bought a PS3 because I fell into the hype train after loving my PS2 and PS1 for so long and I feel like an idiot for doing it. The PS3 so far has just been a bitter disappointment and a waste of money. I spend more time and have more fun still on my PS2. If you look at PS2’s continued sales than it would seem a lot of people feel the same way. I thought about getting a 360 but since I waited a whole extra year and wasted so much money on the PS3 I just decided to hold off.

Yeah, so I have played quite a lot on PSN and I DON’T own a 360. I played xbox live and I think it is cool but I don’t know if I’d really be willing to pay for it. Sorry to disappoint you guys with your obvious lack of knowledge of the facts of my life, and excuse the fuck out of me for having an opinion.

In closing, Ian is a fanboy. Good day.

By: madpuppy

madpuppy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:46:44 +0000

don’t bother, from the previous posts seasoned salt only owns a PS2 and probably a 360 seeing her/his distain for the PS3.

By: Ian Ennis

Ian Ennis — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:17:44 +0000

@ seasoned salt,
have you ever played on PSN? if you have you would know that it offers more dedicated servers than XBL. Its also funny you can predict the future by saying Home will be garbage…maybe your just annoyed PS3 users get content for free that you pay for??

By: SeasonedSalt

SeasonedSalt — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:40:24 +0000

PSN is garbage will remain garbage even when home comes out and they start offering pay-for content that is also garbage.

By: Krispy Demon

Krispy Demon — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:11:14 +0000

I’m glad the PSN deal is free, and I’m not surprised so many people that have both systems don’t pay for XBL… after spending that much they have to be pretty broke. Credit card payments must be murder!

To me though, PSN is like budget bin online gaming. You could buy a game now and pay sixty bucks for it, or you could wait a few months and pay forty. Yeah, you saved twenty bucks there, but you waited to play it. To some people, that’s worth it. Me, if I want to play a game, I want to play it now. Maybe if it’s something I overlooked or only had half an interest in, sure, I’ll wait a while. So, yeah, PSN is getting better and better (as in more and more like XBL) and it’s free… but seriously, XBL does it all and just does it better. I mean, when PSN gets in game XMB and in game texts, XBL will have four person video and voice chat in the not too distant future.

The trophies thing does look kind of cool though. I kind of like the idea of levels and stuff, but it doesn’t seem any different than just looking at your gamerscore on XBL, except that trophies are more cryptic than flat out gamerscore. It’s like, hey, I’m level twelve and three quarters? Well, I’m twelve and a half and catching up soon. Huh? Why not just have numbers like XBL’s achievements? I have 24,678 points and you have 24,578… how hard is that? I guess they can’t be too blatant when copying XBL’s successes.

By: Kojima Suit Larry

Kojima Suit Larry — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:28:47 +0000

PS3 FTW!!!

By: madpuppy

madpuppy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:18:07 +0000

yeah, I got both systems also, I like the ps3 a little more. XBL will be hard to beat though, It works really well, on line with the ps3 for gaming worked pretty good also but, chat was unimpressive. and I like to blab away and make people laugh while I’m getting killed in halo 3 :P

By: HyruleGangsta

HyruleGangsta — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:39:36 +0000

So glad I own a PS3 as well as a 360. I don’t pay for the live service though. Too much money for something we should be getting for free.