So I was reading with much interest about Microsoft’s latest alleged mistake, and I was thinking… sure most people are just going to suck it up and forget that they spent $50 on a device that’s now useless, but there are some folks who are genuinely considering jumping ship because of this (not entirely sure why).
I admit I’ve pondered at times how nice it would be to have a 360. When I played the console various times in department stores it just wasn’t exciting like the Playstation 3 was, but it’s pretty clear that XBL has PSN beat hands down. This new update to XB360 could alienate a few people, but I really don’t think after being spoiled on XBL, that PSN is enough to sway people over. I really don’t.
So now’s your chance, Sony. Stop playing years-later-catch-up, and catch-up now. Give PSN users a better experience – for fuck’s sake, XBL users are soon to have Twitter! They’ve had MSN integration for a long time too – as well as voice chat rooms and a bunch of other junk that leaves PSN players going “huh, well at least it’s free”.
And as far as charging publishers for bandwidth on PSN – what a terrible idea. You know the running joke “PS3 has no games”? That move will only make it ten times worse – Xbox360 already has an exclusive on Lost and the Damned, but that idea would simply ensure we never get any DLC ever. Here’s an idea, enforce a monthly bandwidth limit on a per-console basis. Heck, you could even make it scale up with how much money a person spends on the PSN Store for that month.