Yeah so I have a Japanese Account, but I cannot read Japanese
This morning I decided to get a Slim PS3
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The only way you seem to be able to promote the PSN is by saying it's FREE. So what, I have to pay £23 a year for live, what's that work out at? £1.91 a month? Oh no, what a rip off!
Give me Xbox Live anyday, it's fantastic. So many people buy the 360 for Xbox Live alone. Don't get me wrong, PSN will improve greatly over the next few years (which is why I haven't sold my PS3 yet) but right now I prefer Microsoft's online services.
GT5:P is the same, but it was only a "demo"
LIVE mandates that certain things must be allowed to happen, PSN doesn't and shifts it to the developer.
So what, I have to pay £23 a year for live, what's that work out at? £1.91 a month? Oh no, what a rip off!
But what is that fee for? Do PC online gamers pay a fee? No!
That looks pretty cool. My updates going on right now, will check it out. I'm assuming its free?
Because M$ are greedy buggers, granted.
But it's still a superior service in my honest opinion. Sometimes we have to pay for quality in life.
the afrika one is, but you will have to create a japanese account. IT only takes 5 mins
The only way you seem to be able to promote the PSN is by saying it's FREE. So what, I have to pay £23 a year for live, what's that work out at? £1.91 a month? Oh no, what a rip off!
Give me Xbox Live anyday, it's fantastic. So many people buy the 360 for Xbox Live alone. Don't get me wrong, PSN will improve greatly over the next few years (which is why I haven't sold my PS3 yet) but right now I prefer Microsoft's online services.
And yet you still haven't managed to tell me why LIVE is so much better than PSN.
OK, you tell ME why PSN is better than Live? Hmm?
Because it does the same as LIVE (more or less) and it doesn't cost you anything.
For the record, I never said PSN was better than LIVE, or that LIVE was a joke. So now you tell me why PSN is a joke, and why LIVE is oh so much better.
For the record, I never said PSN was better than LIVE, or that LIVE was a joke. So now you tell me why PSN is a joke, and why LIVE is oh so much better.
PSN is where Xbox Live was 4 years ago.
Live is constantly being updated, new features are implicated on a weekly basis etc.
I am working right now but will post my comprehensive list to why it's far better later, just for you.
PS. Are you really Trippin & Stoned?
Live is constantly being updated, new features are implicated on a weekly basis etc.
I am working right now but will post my comprehensive list to why it's far better later, just for you.
PS. Are you really Trippin & Stoned?
i got gran turismo prologue today, mainly because it is cheap and i love the series, also it tuns at 1080p.
my god its good
my god its good
Just for me? Wow, I'm touched.
I'd be interested to know what these new features are which are implemented every week too. Although to be fair, like I said previously I'm abit out of the loop when it comes to LIVE.
I'm not Trippin and Stoned, no. Hilarious though.
It really is a good game and whets ones appetite for the new full game thats for sure!
Same here to be honest.
Lets all hug anyway, arguing over video game consoles is a bit sad for grown men.
The PS3 is a fantastic console as is the 360. We have both, so we've got the best of both worlds.
How do you get Live for £23/£28?
I'm an Xbox owner and tbh, the fact you have to pay for Live pisses me off. I don't even like online gaming that much anyway (I'm majorly fecked off with how so many developers neglect single player these days) but I'd be more willing to give it a try if it was free. I could be tempted to trade my Xbox and games in for one of these slimlines.
I'm an Xbox owner and tbh, the fact you have to pay for Live pisses me off. I don't even like online gaming that much anyway (I'm majorly fecked off with how so many developers neglect single player these days) but I'd be more willing to give it a try if it was free. I could be tempted to trade my Xbox and games in for one of these slimlines.
Ebay mate. There are some very good sellers on there who email you the 12 month code for £23-30. Have a shop around.
Why I think Xbox Live is better? I think it's due to the quality of service. MS's Servers are far better and there are more of them than Sony's. Most online games I've played on PSN have been laggy as hell. Also in Live you can send messages in an instant and have Party Chats etc which is vital for 5v5 or 10v10 on FIFA...
...and last but not least: 1v100. Best fun me and my wife have ever had on a video game, multiplayer at it's finest. I just hope the full version is available soon, the BETA was amazing.
As for Grand Turismo, you must be kidding me? My friend bought a PS3 just for that game and was deeply dissapointed after playing Forza 2 and Project Gotham Racing 4 on the 360.
Oh yes! The full thing is coming out at the end of the year.
They'd be daft to release it on the 31st December if you ask me.
Roll on December 4th
There aren't any!
When it comes to a comparison of the two, LIVE does two things that PSN does not. One is cross game invites, and the other is cross game chat.
Neither of those things however have anything to do with the respective networks, but rather the way the feature sets are implemented on the firmware of both machines. They simply do not exist in the PS3 firmware. PSN could handle that fine.
They are OS differences, not network ones. It's the same with a lot of things, Microsoft forces certain features on developers, Sony does not and places it in the hands of the developer. A classic non LIVE/PSN example of this are custom soundtracks. On the XB360, it's in the OS, all games can have that, on PS3, the developer can choose to do that. All PS3 games could upload replays of the gameplay to YouTube if they wanted to. GT5 allows for this, other games do not.
I never said anything about the 31st, but the end of the year is good in all three main markets. Christmas for Europe and North America, and New Year for Japan. Japan is getting FF XIII at the same time though, PS3 sales will probably go through the roof there.
I was taking your end of the year comment too literally, ignore me!
Yes, I would imagine once FFXIII is released PS3 sales in Japan will sky-rocket. Now even more so that the slim has been released.
Final Fantasies have been known to sell 2,000,000 copies first month in Japan alone.
What is 1v100?
There's a thread around here about it somewhere (I can't find it sorry.)
Fantastic online-only game based on the quiz show which aired in the UK on a Saturday evening.
FREE to Xbox Live Gold Members - well worth £1.91 a month I can tell you!
How much is one of these? My PS3 just gave up the ghost and if a new one isn't too much more than the repair and it looks a much sexier then why not?
No backwards compatibility is shit though. I recently went nostalgic and bought a load of ps2 games.
No backwards compatibility is shit though. I recently went nostalgic and bought a load of ps2 games.
If you have a BC unit, I'd just get it repaired.
What's a BC Unit?
EDIT: Nevermind, backwards compatibility?
EDIT: Nevermind, backwards compatibility?
Also what are the chances of it happening again if I get it repaired?
How long is a piece of string?
Unlikely I'd say. You must insist on a repair however, or a new unit without BC for nothing. Call Sony, if they want to charge you for a non-BC unit, jump up and down, create a right strop. Tell them that you just bought a load of new PS2 games (they make money off that) and now you can't use them. Tell them that it's not your fault that they made the stupid decision to remove BC, they promised that the unit you bought could play PS2 games, and that's one of the main reasons you bought it.
This what I believed to be true.
I still stand by my original point regarding LIVE and PSN. I think both are more or less equal in terms of service it give to facilitate online gaming. One of them happens to be free thats all!
Anyway, enough of that.
I need some help here. I got a Japanese account for that Afrika theme but how the hell do I find it in the store when everythings Japanese?
Edit: Nevermind. Youtube is my friend.
Edit: Nevermind. Youtube is my friend.
The is a Wipeout HD dynamic theme coming in the store update today for Europe, and its free, apparently.
I bet it as a fantastic Christmas, with Uncharted and GT5 coming they'll continue to sell.