Topic: CNNMoney.com,"Sony's PS3 A Sinking Ship: Sales Plummet"

[Quemaqua]

If you like shitty interfaces and having to pay for services that should be free, yeah.  Nailed.

[Pugnate]

Say what you want about Microsoft's hardware, they've fucking NAILED the software portion of it.

Yes they did, and it wasn't entirely unexpected. I always felt the PS software was left wanting, and it was one of the things that MS was really good at when they entered the console market.

[gpw11]

Is PS3 still using that Home service thing? There was some great content on how they dropped the ball with that when it came out.

[Cobra951]

Say what you want about Microsoft's hardware, they've fucking NAILED the software portion of it.

I agree with you for the most part, but the latest iterations of the OS take a long time to bring up a list of your games.  It caught Apple disease--it's doing a gazillion things you didn't ask it to do when all you want is your game list so you can play one.

If you're talking games and capability, yes I agree completely.  Good job there.

[K-man]

I'll agree that I have mixed feelings on the latest OS update.  But beyond that, I mean I still don't even have the ability to voice chat with a friend while I'm playing a game?  Come on. 

I mean the best way I can describe it is that the 360's features work so well with each other, while the PS3's almost seem like separate entities.

[K-man]

If you like shitty interfaces and having to pay for services that should be free, yeah.  Nailed.

I'm sure we've had this discussion before once or twice, but I'll say it again.  I'd much rather pay 50 a year for XBL than have to deal with PSN's shortcomings for free.

Although I'd be much happier if XBL were free.  But seriously, you can buy 12 months for 30 bucks now depending on where you look.  I'll gladly shell out 2.50 a month for a stable online infrastructure.

[iPPi]

The Xbox interface has become extremely bloated.  I like the old one with tabs a lot better. 

I have no issues with how Sony has implemented their online stuff.  Granted, Home is a throwaway, but jumping into a game to start playing works fine. 

[Quemaqua]

There is nothing unstable about Sony's online infrastructure.  It's perfectly functional and does everything I need it to do.  I don't care if you ask me to pay twenty cents for the 360's bloated garbage, I just don't like it and don't want to pay for it.  I don't even like using it for free when I occasionally go on there to browse or whatever.  I'm not a Sony fanboy.  I think Home is utterly useless, I think the PSN store needs a drastic interface overhaul and needs to provide more info on some of the stuff it sells, and I'm pissed that they threw the PSN icon into every fucking category on the PS3 XMB... but I still prefer it all to the 360.

[Xessive]

I agree with Que on this one.

If you think the North American PSN Store is crap check out the Asian and European ones! I also sometimes wish I was in charge of the PSN Store because I know I can do a much better job with it.

I hope the next XMB update will remove the PSN Store icon from menus where it doesn't belong.

[iPPi]

I hope the next XMB update will remove the PSN Store icon from menus where it doesn't belong.

Agreed.

[Xessive]

The one new icon I they added in v3 that I like is the "What's New" menu item. It lets me know if there's anything new in the PSN Store without having to open it and I like that the menu jumps straight to it when I boot up the PS3.

I kinda wish the PSP v6 update was at least as significant.. All it seemed to do was change "Network Update" to "System Update" then you choose whether you want to update via Internet or storage media (like the PS3). I guess it makes more sense than using the Game menu to install system updates.

Sony ought to know they're doing something wrong when their main competitor is winning people over even though their service is not free. I don't really understand why Sony are not addressing this constructively. Instead they focused so hard on making the new douchebag-inspired PSP Go! (which simultaneously gimped their UMD sales even further). They seem to ignore any negative, yet constructive, criticism about their online presence and services.

[Quemaqua]

Yeah, it's weird.  I hate Microsoft, yet I understand why they do what they do.  I don't hate Sony, yet I find them entirely incomprehensible sometimes (and they do piss me off now and again).

[MysterD]

Yeah, it's weird.  I hate Microsoft, yet I understand why they do what they do.  I don't hate Sony, yet I find them entirely incomprehensible sometimes (and they do piss me off now and again).

Who doesn't piss you off?

[Quemaqua]

That... is a valid question.