One major problem I have with PSN.

Normally in online games (on the PSN), about 1/5 of players actually have mic's....Microsoft was very very smart in bundeling a mic with thier system. The fact that XBL is full of people with mic's just makes the whole experience feel better. Playing FPS's on PSN is rediculous. Very little strategy and comunication during public games. Any thoughts?

Normally in online games (on the PSN), about 1/5 of players actually have mic's....Microsoft was very very smart in bundeling a mic with thier system. The fact that XBL is full of people with mic's just makes the whole experience feel better. Playing FPS's on PSN is rediculous. Very little strategy and comunication during public games. Any thoughts?

STurn21

Normally in online games (on the PSN), about 1/5 of players actually have mic's....Microsoft was very very smart in bundeling a mic with thier system. The fact that XBL is full of people with mic's just makes the whole experience feel better. Playing FPS's on PSN is rediculous. Very little strategy and comunication during public games. Any thoughts?

STurn21

I concur with this. Bundling a mic with the PS3 makes more since then charging 60 bucks for their name brand one. (i got the madcatz one, 30.00, bobo. lol). Well I can't really make an argument with this one. All i got on you is free online. But buying Blu-ray movies makes up for the 50 with a golds membership. So yea. lame.

I don't have a PS3 so I can't really say anything, but I love that MS put a headset with the 360. About 30 of my friends that I know in real life have a 360, so all of them have a headset. The first thingI do when I turn on my 360 is either jion a party with my friends, or start on myself and invite my friends. As for actually using the headset to discuss tactics or something, it usually doesn't work.

People wouldn't let you play if you don't have mic. I get kick all the time for not using my mic.

Normally in online games (on the PSN), about 1/5 of players actually have mic's....Microsoft was very very smart in bundeling a mic with thier system. The fact that XBL is full of people with mic's just makes the whole experience feel better. Playing FPS's on PSN is rediculous. Very little strategy and comunication during public games. Any thoughts?

STurn21

If you're not playing with friends what games on XBL can you tell me people actually talk strategy?

People wouldn't let you play if you don't have mic. I get kick all the time for not using my mic.

monlosez

Yeah but with every XBox live mic you have there is an anoying 10 year old boy cussing you out on the other end.

[QUOTE="STurn21"]

Normally in online games (on the PSN), about 1/5 of players actually have mic's....Microsoft was very very smart in bundeling a mic with thier system. The fact that XBL is full of people with mic's just makes the whole experience feel better. Playing FPS's on PSN is rediculous. Very little strategy and comunication during public games. Any thoughts?

W1NGMAN-

If you're not playing with friends what games on XBL can you tell me people actually talk strategy?

Hardcore TDM and Hardcore SaD-CoD 4.

One good thing about the ps3 mic support is that it'll support any bluetooth mic.

On the negative side I don't think that psn's audio quality is as good as XBL. I barely understand anybody on psn, and letting people change their pitch doesn't help the cause one bit.

Ok, so if sony starts including Mics, then it will become the garbage that is XBL communication, are you aware of how much pointless bashing/swearing and other things are? Plus, I will be hearing more little kids arguing with their parents about when to get out (true story)Mythomniac

Have you played on PSN recently? Half of the people with mic's are little kids who used the pitch change fuction to make themselves sound like chpmunks or the devil. It is 10 times more annoying than anything I have ever heard on XBL.

[QUOTE="STurn21"]

Normally in online games (on the PSN), about 1/5 of players actually have mic's....Microsoft was very very smart in bundeling a mic with thier system. The fact that XBL is full of people with mic's just makes the whole experience feel better. Playing FPS's on PSN is rediculous. Very little strategy and comunication during public games. Any thoughts?

W1NGMAN-

If you're not playing with friends what games on XBL can you tell me people actually talk strategy?

Yeah but with every XBox live mic you have there is an anoying 10 year old boy cussing you out on the other end.

WiiMan21

voice chat just does not work that well on psn. I bought two nice blue tooth headsets in the begining, but i gave up trying to voice chat on psn a long time ago. If i could chat clearly and reliably, and set up a private chat with friends on psn...i would. But i cant, so i dont.

[QUOTE="WiiMan21"]

Yeah but with every XBox live mic you have there is an anoying 10 year old boy cussing you out on the other end.

x360owna

Same with the Ps3, but less of them.

[QUOTE="x360owna"][QUOTE="WiiMan21"]

Yeah but with every XBox live mic you have there is an anoying 10 year old boy cussing you out on the other end.

WiiMan21

Same with the Ps3, but less of them.

[QUOTE="WiiMan21"]

[QUOTE="x360owna"] And you can mute him or take it out. But when you get good people, your free to talk with them as much as you want.x360owna

Same with the Ps3, but less of them.

Yes but also a bigger chance of getting a whiny 10 year old.

[QUOTE="x360owna"][QUOTE="WiiMan21"]

Same with the Ps3, but less of them.

WiiMan21

Yes but also a bigger chance of getting a whiny 10 year old.

As long as you and your friends have mics who cares?hoosier7

I have 2 friends who own a PS3, that's why I normally play on XBL.

[QUOTE="WiiMan21"]

[QUOTE="x360owna"] More people talking means a higher chance of good people to talk too.x360owna

Yes but also a bigger chance of getting a whiny 10 year old.

same as the Ps3.

[QUOTE="x360owna"][QUOTE="WiiMan21"]

Yes but also a bigger chance of getting a whiny 10 year old.

WiiMan21

same as the Ps3.

[QUOTE="hoosier7"]As long as you and your friends have mics who cares?STurn21

I have 2 friends who own a PS3, that's why I normally play on XBL.

[QUOTE="STurn21"]

[QUOTE="hoosier7"]As long as you and your friends have mics who cares?hoosier7

I have 2 friends who own a PS3, that's why I normally play on XBL.

That your first point is completely irrelevant to me.

[QUOTE="hoosier7"][QUOTE="STurn21"]

I have 2 friends who own a PS3, that's why I normally play on XBL.

That your first point is completely irrelevant to me.

[QUOTE="x360owna"][QUOTE="WiiMan21"]

Yes but also a bigger chance of getting a whiny 10 year old.

WiiMan21

same as the Ps3.

Of course you can mute out the annoying people on both platforms. The difference is that when you do that onXbox Liveyou are still leftwitha large amount of people who actually use the mic properly cause everyone owns one. On the PSN you may not be so lucky cause not everyone has one.

[QUOTE="WiiMan21"]

[QUOTE="x360owna"] That you can muteCAlNlAC

same as the Ps3.

Of course you can mute out the annoying people on both platforms. The difference is that when you do that onXbox Liveyou are still leftwitha large amount of people who actually use the mic properly cause everyone owns one. On the PSN you may not be so lucky cause not everyone has one.

I agree. Sure you might occasionally get an annoying player but most of the time you won't. Mics are essential for team strategy.

I play a lot of Halo 3 custom games. I get so many laughs from people I have just met that I would probably not get if mics were not bundled with the console. So I don't understand the argument that mics are only useful with friends. That argument is just retarded to me. I've met a lot of cool people on Xbox Live that I like to play games with.

i only play kz2, socom confrontion (now that 1.5 patch is out... its smooth as butter) and r2 online and sometimes bf1943, and only r2 have i had a problem where most if not all the people playing dont have mics (in competative anyways... co-op either everyone has a mic or next to no one does) i used to play cod4 and bout half had mics, either way only socom and kz2 are tactical enough to warrent everyone needing a headset (which about 80 percent of the people do) so everything else i dont really bother unless im playing with a friend

Yeah but with every XBox live mic you have there is an anoying 10 year old boy cussing you out on the other end.

WiiMan21

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[QUOTE="STurn21"]

Normally in online games (on the PSN), about 1/5 of players actually have mic's....Microsoft was very very smart in bundeling a mic with thier system. The fact that XBL is full of people with mic's just makes the whole experience feel better. Playing FPS's on PSN is rediculous. Very little strategy and comunication during public games. Any thoughts?

STurn21

If you're not playing with friends what games on XBL can you tell me people actually talk strategy?

Hardcore TDM and Hardcore SaD-CoD 4.

Depends on the game. I can't stand listening to 12yr olds when I'm playing M games, I generally mute them all anyways (no offense to the 12yr olds but your voices are very annoying). Sometimes in COD:W@W there's me & one other guy, sometimes the room is full of people with mics but I generally find that I'm less annoyed on PSN as I am XBL for that reason alone. I do find it kind of strange though, seeing as how any USB headset works on PS3, and since it supports bluetooth any BT earpieces as well, IDK if most people probably don't realize that since who doesn't have one or the other in the house?