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No_need_for_that99 t1_jblohwm wrote

A lot easier to play windows based games with your xbox buddies, thats why I like it more.
When I was playing ninja turtles, I had some friends over playing on my couch while I had other friends playing on gamepass pc and i think we some others from Epic games as well.

So much fun,

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wezzauk85 t1_jblm1qu wrote

I note everybody is talking about online functionality and these days there's not much difference between the two.

But games......not often said that Xbox has a better set of exclusive games but if you change that to multiplayer focused games, then in my opinion, yes they do.

Interestingly, if you also start looking at gamepass third party games even and PS Plus catalogue third party games. Again there's a sway more to single player on PS Plus.

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GADG3Tx87 t1_jblabym wrote

I'm afraid the fellow above is wrong regarding playstation games requiring a subscription for free to play games and it was in fact the other way around. Microsoft was charging people for Xbox Live Gold to access free to play games, party chat and even your own netflix account which they were called out for two years ago and stopped it due to Sony not requiring this practice. I provided a source here. https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22395433/microsoft-xbox-live-gold-free-multiplayer-games-party-chat

Also PlayStation has been the leading platform for Destiny and Call of Duty for the duration of the PS4 generation. It is known that around twice as many players are playing these games on PlayStation. Sony now own the Destiny IP and the Call of Duty situation may change if Microsoft succeeds in acquiring Activision Blizzard.

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GADG3Tx87 t1_jbl9vr9 wrote

Actually that's false I'm afraid. Free to play games have always been free to play on PlayStation without the PS+ requirements. And party chat has also always been free. Cloud saves are not you are correct there.

It was in fact Microsoft who were charging people and required Xbox Live Gold to play free to play games online, access party chat and even access your own netflix account. They were called out for this two years ago because Sony wasn't doing that and it got changed as a result.

Source. https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22395433/microsoft-xbox-live-gold-free-multiplayer-games-party-chat

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Myst_Certified t1_jbl4ldz wrote

Don’t forget the fact I can do many Xbox things on my pc like join party chat, see gamer score, get achievements playing pc games and way more. All you need is a computer that runs windows. Works right out the box just hit windows key + G. Can’t really do that with a PlayStation

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