Microsoft Responds to Netflix on PS3

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I love competitions!!!!!!

Sony and MS, please keep bring new service to us (specially the "free" service!!!)

No matter we own a Xob360, PS3, or both.... We are all winners!!!

By the way, SONY:. since now we can play Netflix... can we get the Hulu back?
 
For a little over $4 a month Xbox LIVE Gold membership is hands-down the best value in home entertainment...
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Funny, I think Free services, Blu-Ray playback, upgradable hard drives, and gaming a much greater value than Facebooking and Twittering in my home entertainment setup...

Doesn't the PS3s web browser support facebook and twitter? I've never been to those sites on my PS3. I know my Pre supports just about everything I need on on the main site of facebook (except post deletion). You'd be controller gimped (if you didn't have a keyboard attached), but you'd have that even with a dedicated app.
 
I would gladly pay $4 a month to have the Xbox 360 interface and Live service on the PS3. It just isn't in the same ballpark. It's free and you can tell that it's free.

For instance, yesterday my friend and I were trying to play Madden 2010 online and voice chat. He could hear me coming through his speakers but I couldn't hear him. His mic was working perfectly fine but something was wrong with his copy of Madden. On the 360 we just join a private chat through XBL and forget about in-game chat but on the PS3 you can't private chat while in a game. This is a feature XBL has had since the original Xbox.

That's just one example and there are hundreds of more. Literally it's $4/month and people are complaining about it. $4. I would gladly take the $50/year XBL service on the PS3. It's one of the only things that keeps my Xbox running and the ONLY reason I'll be buying COD4:MW2 on the 360 instead of PS3.
 
"So does Microsoft plan on dropping the requirement? Will Xbox 360 owners get access to Netflix without having to shell out additional Live membership fees?"

No!
Not only will they not remove the Live membership fee, they actually plan on doubling it, but not for the next couple of months they say.

And yes, the PS3 browser does allow going directly to Facebook and Twitter and YouTube and Hulu and lots of other places as well.
Just get a bluetooth keyboard and you are set to go anywhere on the web.
You can even play flash and java based on-line games right over the browser.
The only thing you can't do is install anything unless you are running an installed Linux.
 
[citation][nom]tayb[/nom]I would gladly pay $4 a month to have the Xbox 360 interface and Live service on the PS3. It just isn't in the same ballpark. It's free and you can tell that it's free. For instance, yesterday my friend and I were trying to play Madden 2010 online and voice chat. He could hear me coming through his speakers but I couldn't hear him. His mic was working perfectly fine but something was wrong with his copy of Madden. On the 360 we just join a private chat through XBL and forget about in-game chat but on the PS3 you can't private chat while in a game. This is a feature XBL has had since the original Xbox. That's just one example and there are hundreds of more. Literally it's $4/month and people are complaining about it. $4. I would gladly take the $50/year XBL service on the PS3. It's one of the only things that keeps my Xbox running and the ONLY reason I'll be buying COD4:MW2 on the 360 instead of PS3.[/citation]
So what does playing your games have anything to do with the fact that you can watch movies and not pay extra?
 
For a paid service, Xbox Live sucks. I tried a free trial and thought it was insane that people actually paid $50+ a year for it. And if someone else plays on the same console, they have to pay for their own Xbox Live membership. It's a huge rip off. Not to mention the actual service was horrible, prone to lag and disconnects, and waiting for a game in matchmaker takes way too long. By the time a game starts, I've already lost interest in playing. I haven't played online on PS3 much, but the times I have didn't have many problems, and even if it did have problems, I could forgive them because it's FREE.
 
For consumers who own both consoles, the choice should be obvious.

For consumers who have both are more than likely paying for gold xbl anyway so it wouldnt matter, if that was the case i would at first use the xbox as i dont need a disk to access netflix then it would depend which on im on at the time
 
I never thought I'd say this, but methinks PS3 is now poised to overtake Xbox 360. For $299 the PS3 is clearly a way better value for the money. If didn't already own all 3 consoles and have to choose what to buy right now, I'll pick the PS3 in a heartbeat. MS should just introduce another console next year with next gen processing power and blu-ray drive. And of course, with Natal built in.
 
[citation][nom]Destn[/nom]"So does Microsoft plan on dropping the requirement? Will Xbox 360 owners get access to Netflix without having to shell out additional Live membership fees?"No!Not only will they not remove the Live membership fee, they actually plan on doubling it, but not for the next couple of months they say.And yes, the PS3 browser does allow going directly to Facebook and Twitter and YouTube and Hulu and lots of other places as well.Just get a bluetooth keyboard and you are set to go anywhere on the web.You can even play flash and java based on-line games right over the browser.The only thing you can't do is install anything unless you are running an installed Linux.[/citation]

Yes you can private chat while in a game on PS3. I do it all the time.
 
Well Netflix is the only reason I got a gold membership... and once it's available for the PS3 I doubt I'll keep paying for it since I'm not into online 360 gaming.
 
[citation][nom]soky602[/nom]So what does playing your games have anything to do with the fact that you can watch movies and not pay extra?[/citation]

He is trying to explain to the poor minded like apparently you dont get it, why the XBL shoudnt be free and why PSN will never be any close as good as XBL. The fact live gaming is way WAY better on the 360 is what matter to someone like me that bought his damn console cause its for GAMING whatsoever. So im exactly of the same idea. Even if it goes a WHOLE whooping 20%+ the price ( which makes it about a whole 5$.. ) Id still pay for it cause of the quality gaming other than the rest of the services...

Now if you wanna tlak about multimedia and/or movies in specific Ive had Netflix and PS3 users didnt. Since when do they get to talk as if it hasnt been that way till now? Or you will really tell me that PSN is any good? How many ppl use PS3 for browsing? None of us, How many would tho wanna check twitter really quick in between their gaming? a lot ( not me though cause i hate all facebook and twitter actually ).

Anyhow, the whole gen Sony has been copying all MS moves and XBL and gaywised the WiiMote to make a wand out of it. Onlything theirs was BR and thats the only thing that kept them back and costed them a lot of money. So when I decide to get everything second hand and worst quality and with a delay ( crossplatform titles included ) then ill excuse Sony's choices and options and ill be as dumb to say "yay its worth it". Till then, im sorry I just cant get myself to agree with any of Sony's strategy the past few years on the gaming part...
 
[citation][nom]manos[/nom]He is trying to explain to the poor minded like apparently you dont get it, why the XBL shoudnt be free and why PSN will never be any close as good as XBL. The fact live gaming is way WAY better on the 360 is what matter to someone like me that bought his damn console cause its for GAMING whatsoever. So im exactly of the same idea. Even if it goes a WHOLE whooping 20%+ the price ( which makes it about a whole 5$.. ) Id still pay for it cause of the quality gaming other than the rest of the services... Now if you wanna tlak about multimedia and/or movies in specific Ive had Netflix and PS3 users didnt. Since when do they get to talk as if it hasnt been that way till now? Or you will really tell me that PSN is any good? How many ppl use PS3 for browsing? None of us, How many would tho wanna check twitter really quick in between their gaming? a lot ( not me though cause i hate all facebook and twitter actually ). Anyhow, the whole gen Sony has been copying all MS moves and XBL and gaywised the WiiMote to make a wand out of it. Onlything theirs was BR and thats the only thing that kept them back and costed them a lot of money. So when I decide to get everything second hand and worst quality and with a delay ( crossplatform titles included ) then ill excuse Sony's choices and options and ill be as dumb to say "yay its worth it". Till then, im sorry I just cant get myself to agree with any of Sony's strategy the past few years on the gaming part...[/citation]


Hmmmm, PS3 is the only one that originally had:
-HDMI
-Built in wifi (which Xbox still doesn't have, but charges $100 extra for the adapter)
-Upgradeable HDD (rather than the overpriced proprietary drive Xbox requires)
-Built in HD disc drive (which Xbox still doesn't have)

Hell the whole concept of the Xbox 360 Elite sku was an answer to what teh PS3 had from the beginning, and it still doesn't equal it.
 
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