PS3s Online Services to Compete With XBox 360

wh0pper writes "Dubbed WA!PS3 Online, Sony plans to combat the Xbox 360's download service with their own service for the Playstation 3. Though this is only going to happen in Asian markets at first, this adds even more fuel to the fiery debate over whether the Playstation 3 will have a hard drive included with the system. The Playstation 3 will be able to download games to the console for gamers to play and Sony says it will be better than the Xbox 360's features."

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Name?

[TheBogie]

WA!-T-F is with the name?

I'm hyped!

[saboola]

Anyone for an eight way match of Rootkit Wars on the PS3? Let me know and I will let my DRM PS3 get permission from your DRM PS3, only after Sony gives us both permission to play in the first place. Game on!

Where's the real stuff?

[Anonymous Coward]

I think I speak for a very large portion of the gamer base if I say :"Put up or shut up."

So far Sony has been able to provide people with.. promises. Nothing concrete and no I don't consider a few screenshots or videos here or there as believeable material as most of them have already been revealed to be pre-rendered material.

There's way too much hyping on both sides, yet only one party has so far been able to even deliver a reasonably working box to consumers.

No HD in the US = foolish

[stupidfoo]

What's the most widely acclaimed feature of the Xbox 360 so far? Xbox Live Arcade and Marketplace (downloading demos).

There is no question that any next gen system needs to have some type of local mass storage. The only question is how big it needs to be. The 360's 20GB HD is already looking way too small.

Oh and Fight Night Round 3 kicks ass.

"Better than the Xbox 360!"

[Sparks23]

...Sony says it will be better than the Xbox 360's features.

'cause no company, anywhere, has ever made claims like this as a matter of course. I mean, I'm sure Sony actually /will/ put together a good service; they have the know-how over in the Sony Online Entertainment division. But did that even really need to be quoted in the article? It's pretty much a given that Company A is going to say, when hyping their product, that it will be better than Company B's.

I mean, can you imagine Nintendo, for instance, coming out and going, "Yes! The Revolution is cool...! But the Xbox 360 is a better product." Even if it were true (and of course, the jury is still out on the competition to the 360), of course they wouldn't say it. ;)

Re:"Better than the Xbox 360!"

[masklinn]

I'm sure Sony actually /will/ put together a good service

I'm not, ever browsed a sony portal/website? You can hardly find worse pieces of crap.

they have the know-how over in the Sony Online Entertainment division

Yeah, the makers of SWG, the sinkers of Everquest, woohoo, that's something to look forward to, kind of like watching the titanic depart from england after knowing the end of the story.

Goes something like this:

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft: "And then.. my system.. it's gonna have a harddrive.. and a..uh.. wireless controllers.. and it's HD compatible.. and I'm gonna make the, uh, Live even awesomer."

Sony: "Nuh uh! Your system is poop! Mine's gonna be awesomerer than your's! My system is gonna have, uh.. um..A ROUTER.. and uh, dual shock 3.. maybe I can squeeze in a harddrive.. nah, no harddrive. well, maybe.. And it's gonna play the Blu Rays! And, and, and it's gonna go online too! Only faster than your system! With prettier colors! And more funner games than what you've got! And I'm gonna call PS Web! It's gonna rock. So, nya!"

Microsoft: "Wow, that sounds pretty cool." Here's mine *shows an Xbox360 Premium*

Sony: "DOODY HEAD!!!"

somethin like that

meanwhile, Nintendo is playing quietly in the sandbox by itself making controllers in the sand and revolutionizing the way the other kids are playing on the playground they've been using for years.

Re:WASP Online!

[Rob T Firefly]

Actually, if like me you pronounce it "Wops online" it sounds like an Internet-enabled reunion of my Italian-American family.