XBox 360 vs Playstation 3 - Social Networking on the Gaming Consoles
January 25th, 2010 Subscribe To Our Feed
Social networking integrated into the gaming consoles makes infinite sense. Gamers always need Facebook and Twitter to keep in touch through the roller coaster experience of the game, or they need to find people around the world to game with. When you stack the XBox 360 vs Playstation 3 , how do they compete in the area of social networking? Let us get to the bottom line first: whichever way you see it, social networking on the consoles is not really there yet for in-game communications. If you want to get in touch with your friends around, you’ll have to quit your game before you do it. It’s not like you can have a little text box to the side where you can chat about all the goings-on in your virtual shoot-up bloodbath. In implementing social networking this way, both consoles seem to have really missed the point. For your in-game communications you still will need a netbook command central to the side. But without getting too stuck on this shortcoming, let us see how these two compare in social networking.
The PlayStation 3 came to the party a little late, with a firmware update in the middle of November. Of course the PS3 has always had a browser that could access anything on the net but that didn’t really help integrate social networking with gaming. The new development is actual integration; your gaming achievements are updated on your Facebook profile automatically. Not only that, Facebook loads quickly now, and is properly formatted for the big screen plasma. What won’t work on the PS3 is Facebook chat. In general, the Facebook experience on the PS3 is somewhat lacking, with a few hiccups on the way to viewing your notifications or dealing with your status. Sony’s Facebook experience is mostly all about posting your achievements on your profile. Sony in the past has burned its fingers with the PlayStation Home networking concept, and is probably trying to pace itself. Now on to see how this stacks up in the XBox 360 vs Playstation 3 test.
Facebook is a little different. It has been tweaked for Xbox 360’s dashboard, and some features work better than others. Photo albums work beautifully on Xbox Facebook. The photos are properly scaled for viewing on your large screen plasma too. You can look at all your friends on Facebook and if anyone has linked their Gamertags, you can ask to have those ported over to your LIVE account. The videos and Facebook apps are not really coming through to the Xbox now. The Facebook experience on the Xbox is almost all the real thing. And it certainly trumps what it is on the PlayStation. Ever since the Xbox made it to social networking, a few days ago, about 2 million members of Xbox Live have checked it out. Since the Xbox allows you to connect to a last.fm, hundreds of thousands have tried that out too.
In the end, the XBox 360 vs Playstation 3 test only makes one thing clear; you could have a far smoother social networking experience getting online if you pick a netbook.
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Xbox video game cheats
October 20th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed
One of the strange things I’ve always found about video games is that people cheat at them. Whether it’s old-school games lke Contra (up-up-down-down-left-right-select-start… bet that rings a bell) or the newest versions of Halo or what have you, there’s always someone who wants to tilt the rules in their favor. Which means you’re not really playing the video game, you’re just cheating.
In that spirit, let’s take a look at the reasons folks look for xbox video game cheats. Check out this opening screen from xboxcheats.com:
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Seems to defeat the purpose of playing the video game in the first place, doesn’t it? Xbox video game cheats are ubiquitous, available seemingly everywhere even though, if you cheat, it’s not really you versus the game. It’s you subverting the game. I’ve never understood that.
Of course not all xbox video game cheats are created equal. Some are more like easter eggs, hidden in the coding of the game for users to find and exploit. Since they’re there by design, they’re not really xbox video game cheats; they’re bonuses. It’s important to note the distinction between the two.
Personally I like that part of playing video games - finding stuff that maybe you don’t intuitively understand is there. But that’s different than cheating - that’s playing the game itself.
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