Because It Works

A lot of people, who know me well, think that I am a ball of negativity when it comes to moving to something new, well, I can agree and disagree with that statement. Let me give you an example of that.

Let’s use the Xbox 360 versus the PS3 online service as a good example. Xbox Live is one of the easiest and most worry free services that I have ever used (now I will admit that I don’t do a lot of them) and I am very pleased with the ease of use that is associated with that service. Want to see what your friends are doing? Just login and look. Want to join their party, click B (or is it Y?). Want to send them a message, again very easy. But you can do that pretty easily on the PS3 online also. But then you go to the next level and join someone game. On Xbox Live (XBL), it’s sometimes as easy as clicking “Join Game”. On the PS3, though, you have to jump through several hoops because unlike Xbox Live, the developers of the games determine what features you have in regards to multiplayer. It’s not a universal standard like XBL.

Now this applies to a lot of other things. Take Facebook, for example, I hated the MySpace layout, but absolutely LOVE the layout of Facebook. Simple, easy to understand and works nearly all the time. When someone hates something, it’s not always because of a bias, it’s because they sometimes prefer to have it a different way...because it works!