03-27-2005, 09:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-27-2005, 11:53 PM by Power and Glory.)
You do have to pay for Xbox Live, but it is worth the price with all the stuff with it. Plus from time to time developers have made new levels or other free downloable content. There is a bunch of cool stuff you can do with it. Microsoft puts alot of work into Xbox Live so it should not be free.
On the PS2 while it is free Sony does not have a hand in most of it. They make the people who make the games have to design the whole online part of their games. Basically Sony is just providing the connection. Plus if you have an older model of the PS2 like myself you have to buy the network adapter. The new slim models has it built right in.
I think almost all Xbox games are Live enabled.The ones released in the past year or so are anyway. While not all are playable online if you are playing any game someone can IM you and ask if you want to join them and play Counter-Strike for instance. It is a neat feature.
You do not need a mod chip to play imported games on the PS2 or Gamecube. There is a product made by Datel called the Freeloader which is legal. Most people who import do so with those 2 console since a bunce of stuff gets released in Japan first and some can't wait for it to come stateside. There is not much importing going on with the Xbox since Japan has not taking a liking to the console ever since it came out so there are not many Japanese developers for the system over there.
I don't want to go off into that stuff though cause I don't think Grits cares about importing games or modding an Xbox. I think she just wants the basics on the 2 systems.
On the PS2 while it is free Sony does not have a hand in most of it. They make the people who make the games have to design the whole online part of their games. Basically Sony is just providing the connection. Plus if you have an older model of the PS2 like myself you have to buy the network adapter. The new slim models has it built right in.
I think almost all Xbox games are Live enabled.The ones released in the past year or so are anyway. While not all are playable online if you are playing any game someone can IM you and ask if you want to join them and play Counter-Strike for instance. It is a neat feature.
You do not need a mod chip to play imported games on the PS2 or Gamecube. There is a product made by Datel called the Freeloader which is legal. Most people who import do so with those 2 console since a bunce of stuff gets released in Japan first and some can't wait for it to come stateside. There is not much importing going on with the Xbox since Japan has not taking a liking to the console ever since it came out so there are not many Japanese developers for the system over there.
I don't want to go off into that stuff though cause I don't think Grits cares about importing games or modding an Xbox. I think she just wants the basics on the 2 systems.
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