[QUOTE="Dibdibdobdobo"]2002? charge with what? SOCOM? lol. PS2 era online wasnt big on consoles as this gen and MS have shown the way forward in easy money making. Thats 9 years not 10. WHo said it would happen with PS3?! PSN+ is a service which is charged for so its already started.tormentos
Socom was actually one of the most popular games online,and Socom 2 logged more played hours than all of live games combined back in the day,it wasn't until Halo 2 came that MS had a game that actually had more users,but it was because Halo 2 was the game to own on xbox and by far the biggest seller the xbox had the rest of the games were ghost towns,in fact if Socom 2 would have sold like Halo 2 the story would have been different. As there were allot more players online on PS2 than on the xbox which only had 2 million live users. 10 the network adapter was release in Japan before the xbox was even launch,in fact the HDD was also release in japan before the xbox landed,which make the PS2 the first console to actually use a HDD not the xbox like some think. PSN+ is not even close to been the same as Live and can't be view as and indication of sony charging for online play,PSN + allow you to play games without paying for them,give you huge discounts,and give you allot more stuff,for a yearly fee games have never been free did i mention it is obtional,so sony is more like selling your stuff cheap,XBL is a rip off where MS force you to pay so you can use the online component of games which is Key lock by MS. What MS is doing with XBL is the same some developers did with some DLC that was included on the disc,and you only payed for a key to unlock it,XBL is just that pay a fee to access content in games that is already there.So you just pointed out everything which i already stated!! Bit of a waste really of time.
We know Xbox didnt sell well in comparison to PS2. Thats a no brainer. Socom would of sold like Halo?! Thats nothing but opinion which cannot be proven right nor wrong.
Whats a HDD gotta do with anything?! Were on about online gaming. Thats like bringing up brittish history in American History Exam. Heres a useless fact. Nintendo had Side Buttons on controllers 1st. Socom never used HDD nor was HDD exported to the UK region.
Theyre still charging you. So you can play Demo's for free!! That is nothing new, I've been playing Demos on consoles since PSX era. I remember the free Dinoasaur Demo and Mantis Demo and Pandemonium. Huge Discounts?! Thats a opinion. They give you lot more stuff for charging you?! Well that makes sense, I wouldnt pay for something if the freebie offered as much content as the paid for variation.
No both are rip offs but one your trying to defend for whatever fanboy reason there is.
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