I wish sony would go to $250, who would buy an xbox 360 then? I mean what first party titles are coming out in the near future that are going to sell xboxs? I dont see anything. MS has crackdown, sony has infamous! MS has halo, sony has resistance and killzone which look much better. MS has forza, sony has gran turismo and motorstorm. MS has ??? and sony has uncharted! Sony still could win this console war if they make strong moves right now. It has to be right now cause time is ticking. I am much happier with sonys first party games then ms's and thats the most important since almost all third party titles come out on both.
Well, Sony is famous (or inFamous; I couldn't resist) for their habit of using "second-party" developers. Third-party developers backed up by - guess who? - Sony somewhere down the line.
johnny: I have both Xbox 360 and PS3, and I disagree completely. Sony's main problem is not its lack of exclusives (though that is a part of it).
PSN sucks. It sucks. It sucks. It sucks. I cannot repeat this enough times. THIS is the thing that is killing Sony beyond anything else (though the high price of entry hurts too).
But I'm not just gonna randomly complain, here are some (but not all) of the reasons why PSN blows:
- Poor integration into play. Friend sends me a message while I'm playing a game. On Xbox I hit the Xbox button, it brings up the text of the message immediately. Another press of the button dismisses it. On PS3? Hit the PS3 button, surf on over to the Friends tab, scroll down to Messages, select Inbox, and then scroll to the meesage I want to read and THEN hit X to read it. WTF? SERIOUSLY?
- ZERO support for parties, ZERO out-of-game support for invites. Say I'm playing Halo. A friend comes online and invites me to join a GoW match. Notification pops onto screen, I hit my Xbox button and accept. Boom, swap a disc and I'm in the game. Easy peasy. On PS3? I get a message in my Inbox: "YOU HAVE BEEN INVITED, START X GAME!". I start the game, but instead of asking me to join this match I'm being invited to, the game is blissfully unaware that anything has happened. I go into "play with friends" (game specific, which makes it all very confusing) and HOPE the matchmaking system works and doesn't do something dumb like put me on opposite teams with my friend (*COUGH*Battlefield1943).
- On the other hand, the PSN store UI is a lot better than the Xbox Live purchasing UI. Kudos to Sony on this one. If only there was anything worthwhile on the PSN store...
Oh, and as good as Resistance was, it has nothing on the hype and popularity around Halo. Comparing the two simply doesn't fly.
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I wish sony would go to $250, who would buy an xbox 360 then? I mean what first party titles are coming out in the near future that are going to sell xboxs? I dont see anything. MS has crackdown, sony has infamous! MS has halo, sony has resistance and killzone which look much better. MS has forza, sony has gran turismo and motorstorm. MS has ??? and sony has uncharted! Sony still could win this console war if they make strong moves right now. It has to be right now cause time is ticking. I am much happier with sonys first party games then ms's and thats the most important since almost all third party titles come out on both.
I like how NONE of those (except arguably Halo) are actually FIRST PARTY.
I guess if you're mentioning Uncharted, you might as well mention Gears of War
Well, Sony is famous (or inFamous; I couldn't resist) for their habit of using "second-party" developers. Third-party developers backed up by - guess who? - Sony somewhere down the line.
johnny: I have both Xbox 360 and PS3, and I disagree completely. Sony's main problem is not its lack of exclusives (though that is a part of it).
PSN sucks. It sucks. It sucks. It sucks. I cannot repeat this enough times. THIS is the thing that is killing Sony beyond anything else (though the high price of entry hurts too).
But I'm not just gonna randomly complain, here are some (but not all) of the reasons why PSN blows:
- Poor integration into play. Friend sends me a message while I'm playing a game. On Xbox I hit the Xbox button, it brings up the text of the message immediately. Another press of the button dismisses it. On PS3? Hit the PS3 button, surf on over to the Friends tab, scroll down to Messages, select Inbox, and then scroll to the meesage I want to read and THEN hit X to read it. WTF? SERIOUSLY?
- ZERO support for parties, ZERO out-of-game support for invites. Say I'm playing Halo. A friend comes online and invites me to join a GoW match. Notification pops onto screen, I hit my Xbox button and accept. Boom, swap a disc and I'm in the game. Easy peasy. On PS3? I get a message in my Inbox: "YOU HAVE BEEN INVITED, START X GAME!". I start the game, but instead of asking me to join this match I'm being invited to, the game is blissfully unaware that anything has happened. I go into "play with friends" (game specific, which makes it all very confusing) and HOPE the matchmaking system works and doesn't do something dumb like put me on opposite teams with my friend (*COUGH*Battlefield1943).
- On the other hand, the PSN store UI is a lot better than the Xbox Live purchasing UI. Kudos to Sony on this one. If only there was anything worthwhile on the PSN store...
Oh, and as good as Resistance was, it has nothing on the hype and popularity around Halo. Comparing the two simply doesn't fly.
How come Warhawk is always being left out. It's the best third-person shooter on the planet.
@ Potato
Honestly, some of the things you have mentioned are so trivial. A couple more clicks of a button eh? Wow.
Mind you, it's no more trivial than having to swap discs halfway through a game. Probably 4 times with FFXIII.
That is so 2001.