There have been countless articles written on the subject of “XBOX Live (XBL) versus Playstation Network (PSN).” Mostly they are opinion pieces where the author of the piece goes into either a very deep discussion of his opinion on which service is better and why, or the author simply spits out the same simple answers that have been said again and again. I personally really enjoy reading these articles, I can't explain why, but I almost always get a good laugh out of them. The best part of the articles, for obvious reasons, are the comments made by the visitors of the site. Nothing sparks a fan war quite like this topic this generation.
I truly feel it boils down to one thing. The only question one would have to ask themselves is “Would I pay for this service if I were allowed to have full access to my game, both the offline portion and the online portion?” If the answer is “Yes, there are enough bonuses attached to the service to make me willing to pay.”, then XBL is worth the price of entry. I owned a 360, and was a member of XBL while I owned it, and if you are a 360 owner looking to do much of anything online with your system, it's a must have item. I myself didn't use any other portion of XBL besides the online components of my games, as I bought the system to play the games, so the rest of Live was useless to me. Once I switched over to the PSN camp, I myself never looked back, as I again, was just there for the the games.
No one should tell you how to spend your money, or which of these services is better as it's up to you. I can tell you, from my perspective, if you are out to just play games and not the rest, the price of free beats $60.00 USD any day by my math.
-BroodFather
every time someone brings up this war, i point out the fact that getting things going on a ps3 is a complete nightmare due to the lack of cross game chat. fanboys insist its easy to work around, but anyone telling me that when i was furiously text messaging my friend trying to get things going with him rather than simply being able to chat with him in-console was a complete nightmare and it firmly enforced my belief that the 360 online component is worth the price of admission, even if you dont use every function of it.
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