michchamp said:

the last system I owned was the PS2.

I was thinking about getting a PS4 recently, but I was reading that starting with the PS3, you pretty much had to be "online" all the time, downloading software updates, ads, Sony marketing, and other advertising, and sharing data with Sony. Long gone are the days, when you can just flip on the TV and start playing... now you have to sit through 10 minutes or more of crap before you're ready to boot up. Is that true?

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Gulo Blue said:

PS3 isn't too annoying. Updates take a minute or two and don't happen that often. Some games try to log in every time you play, so if you don't set it up to log in automatically, you might have to cancel out of the log in every time, but it still works. You don't have to log in or be online.

Don't know about the PS4 or new xbox. I'll keep waiting for things to unfold before making the jump. It probably will boil down to the one I think my wife will have an easier time using to navigate netflix and such.

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Monster said:

yeah i'm waiting on ps4 and xbox one until there are more, better games available. I'll probably buy both, but there are still so many good games on ps3 and 360 to play.

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schles192 said:

Monster you mentioned that you never go online this might be the problem you are having with your PS3 trying to run a new game on an outdated system, most games put the updates on the game so you have to update before you can play but then again sometimes they don't.

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Gulo Blue said:

If that's the issue, there is a way to update via thumbdrive I think.

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schles192 said:

You don't need to be online all the time to use either system but online play makes games a lot more fun. As far as the updates they are annoying but necessary, I have both PS3 and 360 and the PS3 takes a lot longer to update than the 360. You don't always have to update but you can run into problems with new games trying to run on an outdated system. Monster you mentioned that you never go online this might be the problem you are having with your PS3 trying to run a new game on an outdated system, most games put the updates on the game so you have to update before you can play but then again sometimes they don't. There was talk before the launch that the X1 would need to be online all the time but that was for digital downloads and they axed that before launch. Don't let the occasional updates deter you from buying a system.

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