Sony: PSN accounts surpass 20 million worldwide

Yes it does bother me that much. I pay for Xbox live, at the very least I should have the option of disabling ADs with a gold account. I meant the comment to compliment PS3 not to start a thread bashing Xbox though.

yea I hate the NXE man. its too fuckin cluttered.

um Baby Sea Tuna, where are the ads on the PS Store? By ads you meant the picture links that highlight the new and popular stuff?

"yea I hate the NXE man. its too fuckin cluttered. "

No doubt. It's flashy and neat to look at it, but it's much less intuitive to use than the old blades. Half the time I just end up hitting the Guide button to bring up the mini-blades. They're easier to navigate than the normal dash.

Yes, Kola, 90% of the time they are exactly the same as the hated ads on XBLM and the NXE, picture links that go to game content (with the exception of the occasional T-Mobil ad or whatever that is easily ignored.)

@bst

I think the difference is that all the PSN ads are contained within the store. I think most people are fine with that because it is a store. They make sense there and if you don't enter the store then you will never encounter them. The 360, OTOH, boots you straight to one of the dashboard sections that is essentially nothing but ads and you have to navigate past ads all the time just get to your stuff (unless you use the mini-blades, which is another reason I like using them). There is a pretty substantial difference in how they are handled and it is a bit odd that the free online system handles them the way you would expect the pay system to handle them and vice versa.

That said, they don't bother me that much. Though I wish they would add a setting where you could set which section would be "home" when you boot. That way we could set the "My XBox" section as home.

Its my most hated feature of the 360...Software side at least...
I want to punch the guy who implemented that in the mouth.

When on the forums you have to link your psn account to the forums, why would ps2 owners do that when there isn't psn on the ps2? I know all the new people that join the forums have to create a psn but how do old accounts have any effect on the number?

Im first registred my account in spain (for the spanish, i live in mexico), then i read about the region stores...so i made a US account. Then i saw jp store having cool free items and more things to download and i made an account there. Finally we (my friends) made an account to buy games and share them :P LoL

1 account is an error
2 i play with it
3 i donwload stuff us store doesnt have
4 for the share

I got an UK one for the KZ2 demo. but as for Hong Kong & Japan, I've had those for a while. they get stuff we just dont get

I have a Japanese one :S And apart from my UK one, its the only one I've come to need. Ah well, everyone for thier own I guess

I have two 360's and only ever have had one Live account for over 3 years, yet have one PS3 and have 2 active PSN accounts.

People will tell you that it's a better service, but I don't think it's $50 a year better.

I know Roto13..

Seriously, the only difference I see is --

- No private chat while gaming.
- No cross game invites.

Chat I miss, but not enough to make me want to spend 50 bucks (especially when I have 3 cell phones and a land line in the house if it's that important.).