I haven't had any severe problems with it, other than UT3 which only lagged twice or so and not as bad as everyone complains about. The store navigation is ok, it just would be better if the menus and such went downward instead of across which they have fixed with the new store update. The only thing XBL has over PSN is the in game stuff and more content from being out longer. I have my computer right next to my ps3, so in my case I don't need music in game, I can just go to options in whatever game I am playing turn down the music and turn my computer up.
I don't own a 360 but I have seen it work and to say it is lightyears above ps3 is an overstatement. I mean it only has in game stuff and achievements on a scorecard which do nothing for the game itself. The speed and a lot of other issues should be fixed with the new update. In game stuff should come out this year on ps3 since you can message in game already in hot shots golf and listen to music in high velocity bowling already. Achievements are starting to roll out on all of the "big" titles like DMC 4 Dark Sector. There will be skill points in all insomniac games and I am pretty sure naughty dog will also adopt the same thing because of uncharted. The ones in Uncharted weren't just for bragging rights either.
What MS does not have is a open ended network for big titles and things like mods. It wasn't until the trouble capcom was having with Super street fighter 2 that MS decided hey let's expand our size on the games.
Overall I think the ps3 is the better deal in the long run. I mean other than in game stuff and achievements on a score card that doesn't do anything for the game itself what does MS have. All the multiplats worth playing run almost equally on ps3 as they do 360 besides half life.
The reason the PSN gets so much trashed pushed towards it's way is because, Sony should have had all this out on day 1 and at it's original price tag of $600, why should I pay more for less. At it's current price point, it is a better deal, but if they could have sold the BC version and 400 and the stripped version at 300 hundred which I know would never happen, then you could have a winner.
The only thing Sony needs now is software and advertising for people to buy it. Even though the Wii has taken charge worldwide in console sales, the 360 still dominates in software and in a sense the software is more important than hardware.
If I have 15 million people that have console x and put out whatever games that sell 300,000 total and then I have console Y which only have 8 million but and put whatever games and they sell 2.5 million total, then the clear winner hear is console Y. Most ps3 exclusives out there did not sell a huge amount, some of them may still be successes but only minor. Take R and C yes they said it is on track as the sales of the ps2 games however it costs more to do ps3 so it is still a loss. I mean I saw that lost oddysey commercial like 3 billion time in 3 weeks. I only saw mlb the show twice in one week. That is all the air time Sony puts into their games like a week and a half and not many times during that period. Multiplats like DMC4 have an exclusive xbox commercial.
I know a lot of what I said isn't related to PSN however that is what makes the PSN trashed talked and the PS3 in general.
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