PS3 Internet Connection - Pros/Cons?

[Jordan3606]

IMO, ps3 online is crap, yes it may be free, but its crap, i get terrible lag on cod4, my mate says its my connection but my 360 works fine on cod4, my ps3 is wireless but in theory my router is like not even a meter away from my ps3

The COD4 servers are P2P servers so if the host has a ****e connection, so will everyone else in the game. If the host leaves the game, the game ends for everyone, etc. etc. I dont know if this is the same for the 360 or what, but hey whatever lol.

Sony do not operate the COD4 servers anyway, the PSN servers themselves are top notch, and if you boot up any first/second party PS3 game then you will find the online absolutely flawless, with dedicated servers. Resistance 2 60 player lag free battles, Warhawk 32 player lag free battles, Killzone 2 32 player lag free battles I could go on and on. On the 360, you get GoW2 8 player matches full of lag and disconnections?! (or at least when the game came out it was like that), and you actually pay to play that online. Now I'm not going to try and start a fanboy war here, I'm not saying PSN is overall better than Live, but for a free service its pretty damn good. The only thing Live has over it is cross game voice chat, which imo Sony needs to get off their ass and implement asap.

Anyway, @OP, I reccomend getting PSN even if you're not going to be playing games online Theres plenty to download from the PS Store should you want any new games or stuff, and you can collect trophies to compare with your friends list etc. Its not all about playing games

[Oleh]

Ok just to clear things up, its £3 a month, it isnt a lot, unless you unemployed and on the dole (in which case still isnt that much)
The people on psn must have crap connections then as it was around 40-50 games i played not 1, im not a fanboy, i just know for a fact that xbox live is much much better

[Jibbish]

But PSN is pretty good considering it's free.

[Oleh]

I have put some thought into it and i came up with, psn is free because it doesnt have alot of features, such as cross game voice chat, 8 player party chat, and my other thought was, its free to make up the cost of the ps3 itself

[Jibbish]

But Microsoft probaly own a copyright patent for half those features or something lol like for in game music.

[Zak]

online play is abit unstable on the ps3

invite system is terrible