PS3 - Premium online
Discussion
Anyone heard this rumor? I heard this morning that PS3 may bring out a Premium online service (i.e. pay per month - al la Xbox) which will include party chat.
good and bad really...
It desperately needs party chat to bring it in line with xbox but i dont think i play the ps3 enough to warranty paying another c.£40 a year!
good and bad really...
It desperately needs party chat to bring it in line with xbox but i dont think i play the ps3 enough to warranty paying another c.£40 a year!
It depends how many other services they will bring out. I wouldn't play £40 for Party chat. I just mute people in game who I don't want to talk to. However 360 on-line features are far superior to the PS3's (and I am a PS3 fanboy 
). If they add other features I will happily pay for it.
). If they add other features I will happily pay for it.
bodhi said:
I don't see the issue with PSN if I'm honest. I sign in and see who's online. If I fancya game with anyone, I put the game they're playing in and off I go. I fail to see what I'm missing out on which is worth 40 quid a year?
Have you had much use with xbox live?Basically for me anyway i have a group of mates all playing different games but we can all join a party chat and chat away without all having to be a certain game. This is good for setting up games also as you can chat before your in the same game. You can also create a party before you join a game and from there all join the game as a team rather than randomly... meaning you all get on the same team.
Its also nice to be able to start up - go to my friends list and click a name and join their game from the dashboard.
All may sound fickle but adds up to make it a much slicker system and therefore easier to use.
{im not an xbox fanboy, i prefer it but only on useability, the PS is better in sheer power)
I will admit, after a bit of a MAG-enforced xbox hiatus, I'm starting to warm to the PS3 a bit more.
Simply playing games in near silence is the first thing, and the freebie PSN seems to be holding up fine, with thousands of people online on MAG at any one time.
If PSN Premium offers faster download speeds, then I may be tempted to pull the trigger with it as that is the only thing with PSN that really bothers me. I downloaded the Heavy Rain demo yesterday and it took a good 35-40 mins to download about 1.5gb, on XBL it is usually a lot quicker. The same with movie downloads etc. although imho the PSN video store is superior to the XBL one, the poor download speed is what cripples it.
Cross game chat may be a decent addition, especially when GT5 is eventually released - chatting to a few mates makes endurance races fly by. The only problem is that not everyone will have a headset, so it might be an also ran, it remains to be seen.
Simply playing games in near silence is the first thing, and the freebie PSN seems to be holding up fine, with thousands of people online on MAG at any one time.
If PSN Premium offers faster download speeds, then I may be tempted to pull the trigger with it as that is the only thing with PSN that really bothers me. I downloaded the Heavy Rain demo yesterday and it took a good 35-40 mins to download about 1.5gb, on XBL it is usually a lot quicker. The same with movie downloads etc. although imho the PSN video store is superior to the XBL one, the poor download speed is what cripples it.
Cross game chat may be a decent addition, especially when GT5 is eventually released - chatting to a few mates makes endurance races fly by. The only problem is that not everyone will have a headset, so it might be an also ran, it remains to be seen.
Edited by Frederick on Monday 22 February 18:47
S3_Graham said:
bodhi said:
I don't see the issue with PSN if I'm honest. I sign in and see who's online. If I fancya game with anyone, I put the game they're playing in and off I go. I fail to see what I'm missing out on which is worth 40 quid a year?
Have you had much use with xbox live?Basically for me anyway i have a group of mates all playing different games but we can all join a party chat and chat away without all having to be a certain game. This is good for setting up games also as you can chat before your in the same game. You can also create a party before you join a game and from there all join the game as a team rather than randomly... meaning you all get on the same team.
Its also nice to be able to start up - go to my friends list and click a name and join their game from the dashboard.
All may sound fickle but adds up to make it a much slicker system and therefore easier to use.
{im not an xbox fanboy, i prefer it but only on useability, the PS is better in sheer power)
bodhi said:
I don't see the issue with PSN if I'm honest. I sign in and see who's online. If I fancya game with anyone, I put the game they're playing in and off I go. I fail to see what I'm missing out on which is worth 40 quid a year?
I am exactly the same. Party chat actually ruins some games such as gears of war. The dead players on the opposition side can spectate and tell the alive playerwhere the opposition are which is a massive advantage.I go on my PS3 to play what game I want to and people can easily invite me to a party on MW2 or I can join them from the XMB.
Yes I have had extensive use of XBox Live but if you don't use any of the extra features then to all intents and purposes, the services are the same.
Frederick said:
I downloaded the Heavy Rain demo yesterday and it took a good 35-40 mins to download about 1.5gb, on XBL it is usually a lot quicker.
I found that Heavy Rain was pretty slow to download (it's all relative I suppose, we are talking 1.5gb) compared to everything else I've downloaded from PSN. I put it down to the fact that the servers were getting absolutely hammered by people wanting the demo.Edited by Frederick on Monday 22 February 18:47
bodhi said:
S3_Graham said:
bodhi said:
I don't see the issue with PSN if I'm honest. I sign in and see who's online. If I fancya game with anyone, I put the game they're playing in and off I go. I fail to see what I'm missing out on which is worth 40 quid a year?
Have you had much use with xbox live?Basically for me anyway i have a group of mates all playing different games but we can all join a party chat and chat away without all having to be a certain game. This is good for setting up games also as you can chat before your in the same game. You can also create a party before you join a game and from there all join the game as a team rather than randomly... meaning you all get on the same team.
Its also nice to be able to start up - go to my friends list and click a name and join their game from the dashboard.
All may sound fickle but adds up to make it a much slicker system and therefore easier to use.
{im not an xbox fanboy, i prefer it but only on useability, the PS is better in sheer power)
I'll have to wait and see what the deal is before deciding if it is worth paying for....
I am not sure there is a great deal of point chatting to people (friends or otherwise) who are not playing your game, as the idea to me of chatting in a game is to win. Discussing tactics, movements and enemy positions etc.. so that we destroy the enemy team.
I am not sure there is a great deal of point chatting to people (friends or otherwise) who are not playing your game, as the idea to me of chatting in a game is to win. Discussing tactics, movements and enemy positions etc.. so that we destroy the enemy team.
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