Traditional_Ad9002 OP t1_jbktycb wrote on March 9, 2023 at 7:34 PM

Reply to comment by Captain_Howard in Why is Xbox better for Multiplayer Gaming? by Traditional_Ad9002

I see. Didn’t know about that.

A couple of thoughts on your last sentence: it is a bit weird that PS doesn’t offer free cloud saves. I am very much a PS advocate, but even I have to give Xbox the edge there.

Also, last week I wanted to back up a PS5 save from ONE game to USB. Apparently you can’t do that. You have to back up the saves from all your games, and you can only use those backed up saves if you restore the console to factory settings. Pretty stupid.

GADG3Tx87 t1_jblabym wrote on March 9, 2023 at 9:16 PM

I'm afraid the fellow above is wrong regarding playstation games requiring a subscription for free to play games and it was in fact the other way around. Microsoft was charging people for Xbox Live Gold to access free to play games, party chat and even your own netflix account which they were called out for two years ago and stopped it due to Sony not requiring this practice. I provided a source here. https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22395433/microsoft-xbox-live-gold-free-multiplayer-games-party-chat

Also PlayStation has been the leading platform for Destiny and Call of Duty for the duration of the PS4 generation. It is known that around twice as many players are playing these games on PlayStation. Sony now own the Destiny IP and the Call of Duty situation may change if Microsoft succeeds in acquiring Activision Blizzard.

n1keym1key t1_jbof84t wrote on March 10, 2023 at 2:37 PM

Those two games are more popular on PS because of the exclusive DLC, early access etc that Sony paid for many times over and over. Go back to the 360 days and that was THE place to play COD because MS had the early DLC etc. Only difference is MS only locked DLC away for around 30 days or so, Sony signs these things up for as long as the developers will allow. Sometimes upto a year.

That alone makes the fact that Sony are throwing all their toys out the pram about the possible merger even more outrageous. :)