PS3 Online Service

quad_red

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=68677&page=1

Looks impressive. We'll have to wait and see how it works when it goes live. It certainly has more features than Xbox Live. We'll have to see how stable it is.

Ciaran500

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055002770

It certainly has more features than Xbox Live.

Like what?

Vegeta

Thinkin the exact same thing as Ciaran500

shortys94

Hey its free, thats a start:)

Vegeta

shortys94 wrote:

Hey its free, thats a start:)

Xbox live is also free.

A gold membership costs money but a silver doesn't

there is also more to them than just online play but they seem very very similar so I was just wondering does sony have any features that live doesn't

Royale with Cheese

Vegeta wrote:

Xbox live is also free.

A gold membership costs money but a silver doesn't

there is also more to them than just online play but they seem very very similar so I was just wondering does sony have any features that live doesn't

Looks like it has a web browser, xbox live doesn't.

Vegeta

well i would have considered that more of a console thing rather than an online community thing. The PS3 has a browser not the online Sony community (what is theirs called???)

When i mean features I mean like Sony chat rooms for specific games, if you're having trouble you can log in and ask someone do they know how to do a certain mission or task. They could then offer to join you in a game and show you how to do it.

I am not talking about a friends list, infact the opposite, an open forum where new friends can be made.

Obviously you can use the browser to do this but then again you can use a browser to do all of the other stuff aswell such as buy demo check for friends etc

Other than the browser (which i consider a seperate entity) what does it have.

Dont be at yourself

Free video, audio and text chat?

LookingFor

Vegeta wrote:

When i mean features I mean like Sony chat rooms for specific games, if you're having trouble you can log in and ask someone do they know how to do a certain mission or task. They could then offer to join you in a game and show you how to do it.

I am not talking about a friends list, infact the opposite, an open forum where new friends can be made.

I think I saw a shot of the XMB with a generic "chatroom" icon under one of the lists..not sure though.

Vegeta wrote:

Other than the browser (which i consider a seperate entity) what does it have.

It has a much better online store, compared to 360's at the moment at least, with a more transparent commerce model.

It has a very swish-sounding 'remote play' function for PSP that allows the PSP to browse and play back the media on your PS3 (initially locally, but later over the web too). They demoed this yesterday, starting to watch a Casino Royale trailer on PS3, and then pausing, and then switching to the PSP and picking up right where the PS3 left off. That is network functionality, I guess. Downloadable PSone games, that will work on both your PS3 and PSP (one file works on both platforms, which you can transfer between the two - that's pretty cool). With original downloadable games they don't have the same limits on download size MS has (games are currently restricted to 64MB on Live because that's the largest memory card you can currently get, and they have to cater to core users).

Asides from stuff like this, though, they seem to be pitching its openess and freeness as their main differentiators (e.g. xfire integration, and integration with other open networks too perhaps). Another key differentiator after launch could be the roll-out of PSP integration with the same platform, basically giving you a portable version of the same network, and communication between the two platforms etc. And PSP online integration is already happening in some titles - for example in the new F1 game, you'll be able to play online on your PS3 against PSP players (and PS2 players for that matter), and transfer your data between the two versions.

Oh, and they also allow games to skin and extend some of the standard features - the online store and the buddy list. So you have one big online store, but a game can provide a custom interface to the same store in-game showing just its related content. Ditto with the buddy list - games can hook into your buddy list in a variety of ways and provide a custom interface to it, allowing the games to extend it (for example, in Resistance you can see how they've extended it to include clan functionality specific to that game). I'm not sure what Live allows with regard to buddy list extensions etc.

Burning Eclipse

NekkidBibleMan wrote:

Free video, audio and text chat?

How does the 360 not offer this?

projectmayhem

Vegeta wrote:

Xbox live is also free.

alright let's be clear here, there's no point saying Xbox Live is free when the main purpose for having it, playing multiplayer games, costs money. you'd be hard pushed to find many people ranting about how great xbl is if they don't play games on it. otherwise it's just as useful as gamespot.com, with demos/vids etc.

Dont be at yourself

How does the 360 not offer this?

Voice chat requires a gold subscription. Text chat is non-existant due to lack of USB keyboard support.

Ciaran500

projectmayhem wrote:

alright let's be clear here, there's no point saying Xbox Live is free when the main purpose for having it, playing multiplayer games, costs money. you'd be hard pushed to find many people ranting about how great xbl is if they don't play games on it. otherwise it's just as useful as gamespot.com, with demos/vids etc.

I hear that all the time

I download more demo's and vids off it than I play in mulitplayer and absolutley love it for it. Not many site you can download the Lost Planet demo on the PC

NekkidBibleMan wrote:

Voice chat requires a gold subscription. Text chat is non-existant due to lack of USB keyboard support.

360 supports nearly all USB keyboards and you get voice chat with a silver subscription.

Vegeta

projectmayhem wrote:

alright let's be clear here, there's no point saying Xbox Live is free when the main purpose for having it, playing multiplayer games, costs money. you'd be hard pushed to find many people ranting about how great xbl is if they don't play games on it. otherwise it's just as useful as gamespot.com, with demos/vids etc.

I have a gold membership and I have only played online a handfull of times because i find the other uses of live (which are free) much better such as demos, videos and messages. In fact i am letting my gold membership lapse soon as I don't use it.

I am looking forward to the PS3 online component and together with its browser it would be very handy, but I am hoping they didn't just emulate live and use their own GUI. Hence asking what else they offered as it wasn't very clear

Burning Eclipse

NekkidBibleMan wrote:

Voice chat requires a gold subscription. Text chat is non-existant due to lack of USB keyboard support.

My question was rhetorical.
I knew the answer. Ironically, you, a mod on the xbox forum, did not.

Vegeta

Burning Eclipse wrote:

My question was rhetorical.
I knew the answer. Ironically, you, a mod on the xbox forum, did not.

SNAP

Unity!!!

Dcully

My question was rhetorical.
I knew the answer. Ironically, you, a mod on the xbox forum, did not.

HAHA Snap again :rolleyes:

koneko

I have my doubts about the PS3 online service being "free", to be honest. I suspect it'll either only be free initially (and with a charge later), or that the fee will the worked in some other way. Like the games will charge you directly, or the game itself will cost more if it has online play, or that you'll be paying for it in other ways (ingame ads). Running services isn't free, servers aren't free, there will be a charge, but how we end up paying is it not clear yet.

rip2roar

It will be free but publishers are also free to charge what they want for people to play their games online. Hello EA? Would you like to use this feature?

GrumPy

Burning Eclipse wrote:

My question was rhetorical.
I knew the answer. Ironically, you, a mod on the xbox forum, did not.

Teheee!!