Because of its popularity with the crass crowd, Zipper Interactive's Ben Jones thinks of Microsoft's Xbox LIVE service as "more juvenile" than PSN.
"I actually consider Xbox LIVE the more juvenile of the two," Jones told GamerZines during an interview at the currently ongoing London-based MAG event. His reasoning is simple: assholes say the darndest things over LIVE. "Each service has its own posse," he continued. "I think the PlayStation audience definitely fits more to our game [MAG]."
We're guessing that his opinion will shift to somewhere in the middle if Sony manages to actually get a headset or two into PSN users hands. Until then, though, Jones totally has a point -- LIVE subscribers hear and dish out a lot filth or idiocy over the service. LIVE users also pay for the pleasure of putting a parrot next to their Avatars. We're actually having problems figuring out which is the worst of the two.
Zipper: Xbox Live "more juvenile" than PSN [GamerZines]
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1:00 PM on 01.21.2010
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But what would you expect them to say?
But seriously, who doesn't love trash talking, swearing, cursing, and shit like that?
Of course no doubt, almost all commenters on destructoid are juvenile judging by their language content in their posts.
Ben Jones owning a 360 = priceless!!!
I don't have an Xbox and have never played on Live... but my own experiences with PSN have mostly been positive. I use a mic and play mostly online shooter games - warhawk, killzone, the Mag beta for over 4 months, COD. It's rare to run into a trash talking idiot. In an average 4 hour gaming session I might run into one - which is pretty good considering I rarely play with a group and just play random sessions.
With MAG, most people on mic were really good. They talked strategy and coordination. Sure every once in awhile you get some idiot that gets all "you must respect my au-thor-i-ty!" [insert imaginary picture of cartman], but that's just game frustration speaking.
... and I apologize if I called you a dickhead for not following my waypoint to the frago! :)
Therefore, more parents buy the Xbox 360 for their children then buy PS3s and that means more 13 year olds calling everyone a fag because they think it's cool.
And, no, this is not exclusive to Xbox. I play a lot of MW2 on PS3 and there are definitely a lot of annoying jerks making racist, sexist and homophobic remark on there too.
I'm surprised the PS3 still doesn't come with a mic. My guess is all the juveniles can't afford Bluetooth headsets, and only the older people get on them.
Juveniles, when you think about it, would probably pick the 360 for stupid reasons like because "it's cooler, and has Modern Warfare 2 DLC first/Halo".
I kid! I kid!
i dont own a 360 but ive heard a great plenty of idiots on psn. id imagine its the same on xbox just with more people using mics.
I got these for 29.99 on Amazon, great sound and voice transmissions. Bass is excellent in Audio Mode
However, if I owned a PS3 I doubt I would play it any different.
Me (psn) and my brother (xbl) see the same amount of people talking (so it doesn't look like the lack of included headsets on the ps3 impeded people any if at all). Its getting them to shut up that's the trick.
Both me and my bro refuse to put our headsets on if where not in a party with our freinds.
You would think the pay service would have less idiots though.
But yeah, I have a headset with the 360 because it came with, and don't with my PS3 because it didn't.
"the Internet is full of assholes and we don't want them playing our game so before we sell Iit to the masses we want all potential players to pass our eloquence and manners test"
What a numpty.
:)
i answered that with the addon of "at least all the PS3 fans i personally know"
and if that needs clarification, i meant everyone i know personally, with relations in person instead of the internet, that owns a PS3 usually has a point of view on their console, and games they play that is pretty ridiculous and not open to suggestion at all. Like MGS4 and Demon Souls being the only good games ever except the other games only released on the PS3.
It's become one of those things. Birds sing, sun shines, 360 gamers are 'juvenile' and sun sets. Sometimes it rains. Moving along.
If you don't have anything to contribute to my game you are getting muted. Kinda like how I wish retarded crackheads who steal and shit would not exist in society, I like my games that way too, lol.
I only chat online when I am playing with my friends, other than that no mic for me.
I mean aside from the fact that like Naughty dog his game is being released SOLELY for the PS3 platform, of course he's going to self represent. He likes money so it makes sense to PR the shit out of his home platform, both for his games benefit, and the benefit of SONY.
lol, this stuff just serves to make me laugh.
It's like what Jim was saying once on Podtoid; "They say this stuff without really believing it to get people riled up and talking about their product more. And the funny thing is, it actually works REALLY well to serve that end objective."
I mean, how many times have you heard MS PR dissing PS3 related stuff, non comitally I might add?
I'd wager it's quite a few times.
PR people are so predictable, lol.
Or maybe he was doing the inevitable pre launch wind up dance. If that even exists..
Brad: In the MAG beta most people seemed to have headsets, the majority of them with decent quality sets as well.
Weak.
I can't be arsed with big typing on this here phone.
in other news, i hear PC's are better than Macs...