Originally Posted by
foil
PSN is free, just like Steam on pc. Where LIVE charges you £60 a year to access internet gaming and FREE services that cost nothing to anyone right upto your router in the house, M$ charges you £60 a year to let the Xbox use these free services available through your router.
Also LIVE is a host advantage lagfest vs PSN nowadays since almost all exclusives and a few others are using someones Xbox in the room to host the server. You are not even getting M$ servers now for these online games, you are paying £60 a year to let your own Xbox and internet connection to act as a LIVE server, what a ripoff.
Then the fact that LIVE has tiny player counts in online matches due to peoples Xbox hosting games now, Player counts like from 1999 shooters on pc. Vs PSN 32-200+ player counts in many games, all hosted on proper web servers. MMO's and heavy online integrated games like LBP would not even be possible on LIVE due to petty restrictions, is why theres no Steamworks on LIVE or user generated content at all really, bullshit for 7th gen.
Also PSN is selling 2x as much digital content than LIVE for the last year or so and is also 2x as busy as LIVE these days since under 1/2 Xbox users have LIVE Gold vs every one of the PS3 sold have online gaming for free if they have internet connection.
Along with mountains of Xbox 360 failing every day and more PS3 selling now than ever, Xbox is out of tricks while PS3 slowly saunters on into the lead.