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Originally Posted by Brokinarrow
I've heard that the party system on PSN leaves a lot to be desired  I've never played a PS3 except for at a demo booth before, so I myself can't confirm or deny that. However, the party system on the 360 is good (I won't say great because there are still plenty of bugs every now and then).
You have the cross game chat option (open a chat session with a friend and talk to him, even if the two of you are playing different games)
The game/party invites are nice (if you're not currently playing the game you got invited to, accepting the invite will automatically launch the game and put you into the party, ready to rock - as long as you have the game disc in the xbox)
Xbox Live parties enable you to talk to multiple friends, who could be playing different games, and you can shoot a game invite to all the people in your xbox live party to quickly get a match of whatever together.
Again, every now and then something messes up with those, but they are very nice when they work. Does PSN have similar functionality? |
To be honest I'm not totally qualified to answer that question because I don't really use those features. I have few friends with game systems and the ones that do play a lot of FPSes which I can't play because I get vertigo from them.
You can message eachother in game no matter what you're playing, I am not sure there is a chat client but maybe. Also you can send multiplayer invites to any user from any game which they can accept and start the game up with.
It sounds like the xBox system is proabably better for that but the PSN system is not so flawed that its crippled, its just not as advanced.