Comments on: Greenberg: Live Marketplace is Wal-Mart, PSN is Quickie Mart

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:56:54 +0000

Umm… kasai. The £50 you pay (lol, try more like £30, £35 if you’re stupid enough to pay retail) has nothing to do with all the things you listed. They’re all accessible to silver members.

By: kasai

kasai — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:21:52 +0000

Uk xboxlive

No tv shows, loads of crappy music videos, 60 odd movies most of which are crap, xbla games only a small majority are worth buying the rest are crap, demo’s, on selected games downloadable content, theme’s and gamer pic’s. All for the price of £50 and all download like you were on a 56k modem.

Its good thing I only payed £25 for my gold membership its not even worth that.

By: Enkeixpress

Enkeixpress — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:51:48 +0000

Haha, what a load of BS.

Check out the EU marketplace to see what I mean.

Fix it Microsoft.

By: morriss

morriss — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:16:46 +0000

Well, I live in Europe so I haven’t got the movies.

By: Jetson

Jetson — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:11:55 +0000

Count for yourself. There’s about a 130 xbox live arcade tittles and if they had a demo for every game available for Xbox 360 (Which they don’t), that would be 370 counting Xbox live arcade games, add in game videos, I’ll say two for every game available, even though it’s probably much less. That would be 1240 XBLA tittles, demos, and game videos. Take that away from the 17,000 items they mention and that leaves 15,760 Movies, TV shows, Gamer pics, and Themes.

By: morriss

morriss — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:21:33 +0000

The majority of stuff on Live is XBLA titles and demos, surely.

By: Jetson

Jetson — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:13:53 +0000

The majority of the content on Xbox live is Themes, Gamer pics, and Movie and TV content. All of which they charge for and have little or nothing to do with gaming.

Sony will have Movie, TV and probably music content Very soon and when that happens there 16,400 item advantage will drop considerably and possibly have fewer items than PSN.

Charging for Themes and Gamer Pics is just stupid, and yes sometimes they give some of those away, there usually the ones based on cars, movies and hamburger joints…the advertising ones, the ones that microsoft is making advertizing money from.

This constent chest thumping by microsoft reps is getting kinda of anoying. This day in day out we are better than everyone else bull is bordering on obsessive, and makes them seem scared of the competition.

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:15:17 +0000

Hmmm – so Live marketplace == Asda – that’s what he’s saying? Classy.

By: Robo_1

Robo_1 — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:46:22 +0000

I preferred Peter Moore. He managed to make press statements without sounding like a trolling idiot.

By: Shatner

Shatner — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:35:20 +0000

I recently watched a documentary on the Wal-Mart empire. The policies and practices used by them are shocking.

This Greenberg guy seems to act more like a forum troll than a spokesperson and, to me, seems to typify the 360′s perceived ‘alpha-male’ core demographic. Chest-beating, flag waving, “USA! USA!” mantra-chanting digital jingoism.

I can’t say I care for him or the way he promotes his products much. Maybe if I was an America frat-boy I’d enjoy it more.