14-09-2005, 10:34 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 287 | Notice the Date of that article, it was posted in June 13th, and I'm pretty sure that Sony hadn't announced their Online Plan by that time. They actually haven't given details of it yet, but it's known that they will, of course, offer an online service.
However, you can't start comparing Sony's service with Microsoft's. As far as I know, The current Online service that Sony offers is pretty horrid compared to Xbox-Live (which has just won an Emmy Award for its excelence) Now, I'm not saying that Sony's online plan for the Ps3 will be equally poor, but we must focus on what a console's online gamming is for: Gamming. And there's were Microsoft's got the edge so far, with the enormous infrastructure it has, they are able to bring their online service to thousands (soon millions) of users without suffering lag. Surfing the web isn't really a big deal for a console, I already do it with my Xbox and I only used it once, just to test it. In the other hand, Xbox Live gives me a fast, stable and lagless service which is what us gammers are expecting from our consoles online capabilities.
In my opinion, it's not to have as many features as possible, it's to have the best of the ones we need. |
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