I’m having a serious problem lately deciding which copy of multiplatform games should I get and this time Fight night: round 4 was the case, I picked FIFA09 before last year on my PS3 and I had much fun playing with my friends, but at the same time I couldn't find much of my friends to play COD5 with on PSN since most of them -PS3 owner friends- prefer sports games,it wasn't the stupid graphics comparison or the controller that was causing me the problem, it was a matter of choosing between playing with my PSN or XBL friends! I wont be talking about XBL market place or PSN store at all its just about gamers that they do have.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Multiplayer games have a wide and respective share of the gaming industry and while multiplier games meant a game that could be played by 2 or 4 players in the past like Sports or FPS games it suddenly turns to a more important element where 24, 32, or even 60 players and more can compete with each other in a very organized way thanks to XBL and PSN, even games that were originally made for single players can’t ignore the online component any more.
When we are talking about online gaming on the current generation of consoles, we are implicitly talking about XBL & PSN where we can find all the multiplier gamers for both consoles and in my opinion its not a secret that they managed to take a very important rule in the consoles war because multiplayer gamers always looks for company to fulfill there challenging desire or at least to share fun & success with there friends, so even if you were in love with the Playstation brands since you were a kid, you still cant ignore the fact that most of your friends already bought their Xbox360 long time ago, so if u decide to stick with your preferred console it means that you will end up playing alone or with peoples you don’t know in your real life, and vise versa of course if your friends decided to stick with Sony’s black giant and free PSN services.

 

 

XBL & PSN successfully divided the online gaming community in two parts, and while it appears like technically and even from a common sense perspective impossible that we’ll ever see PSN gamers compete with XBL gamers we’ll always watch Microsoft and Sony doing all what they can to attract new multiplier gamers and overcome each others, which is at the end of the day for our benefit.