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THQ president likes Xbox Live, wants Sony, Nintendo to follow suit |
Listed in: PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 Tags: Asia, Brian Farrell, China, Downloadable Content, Korea, THQ
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Major developer and publisher THQ, known for WWE and Nickelodeon games, wants Sony and Nintendo to improve on online services for their platforms. According to CEO Brian Farrell, publishers won't be getting much by providing downloadable content for the consoles Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii if online offerings don't get any better.
Farrell commends the Xbox Live service available for the Microsoft Xbox 360, but wants more from the side of format holders. "If you look at markets like Asia, China, Korea and others it's a digital download market because they are predominantly online," he said at the BMO Capital Markets conference.
"Obviously we're seeing a huge uptake with Xbox Live since that's a very, very user friendly download system. We get a fair number of downloads on our PC business," Farrell continued. On Sony platforms, however, THQ "haven't seen the roll-out by Sony of their robust online strategy." Farrell went on, saying "Nintendo keeps working on their digital download strategy as well."
Farrell believes offering consumers the ability to download and consumers adopting to such mechanisms will show significant growth for the DLC scene. "It'll probably keep growing but we need some more visibility from a couple of key partners to see that real growth driver over the next several years," he added.
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I think that sony and nintendo are doing way better since it's free. For downloadable content the wii is really bad because they don't have an HDD, so no demos, no additionnal stuff, etc. But the PSN is a copy of xbox live with almost all the features (I'd like to have a gamercard, lol, but anyway the other features will pop with home) and for free, how can somebody say it's bad!
Anyway, I only own motorstorm for online so I'm not aware of the bad stuff is their is bad stuff. In motorstorm it's perfect, I play online all the time (the last tracks in single is TOO HARD) and it' fun!
Anyway, I don't have my x360 anymore and I like the PSN way more since my online connexion was always dropping when I downloaded demos, also, I couldn't let my x360 download overnight since the morning I had a kind of grey screen and I needed to restart my system. Still, the consoles problems do not affect xbox live, but paying for the same :S, I'm not into it. I'm used to PC online gaming like for conterstrike, wich is free (dah, on pc it's always free). The only thing you pay online for PC or PS3 is MMORPG.
Anyway, I don't like THQ games so I suppose I'm not affected by what they think or do.
Still, one of my friends sold his x360 for a ps3 and he says that XBL was better than the PSN (he paid every month for that), he changed for the games (especially ratchet and crank). So maybe xbl IS better, I dunno. But the complete version of winrar is almost better than the free, still, I use the free, lol.
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But the PSN itself is fine, I have no problems playing any online game.
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Plus it's only 13 cents a day.
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If I want XBL I can just play X360. But Sony and Nintendo should keep and improve their models. I'm sure Home is going to be amazing.
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