Just a quick response. The reason Live does require a subscription is because it does put every online gaming service to shame. Now Live has become the second largest movie download service behind Apple's Itunes. You get all this for about $1.50 a week, something tells me that if you can put money down on a 360, PS3, HDTV, and/or even a Wii the price isn't even worth mentioning.
However, something tells me that if the Live and Movie Downloads get even more popular (more downloads and advertising) then the Live service will become free.
I do agree that the price of the console should be dropped but with the elite coming out I think they will drop the price of the premium to $349 and the core to $249 to compete with the Wii. Also free Live wouldn't hurt either, although if your waiting for that you're going to be missing a lot of great gaming (I guess that goes for the 360 price drop as well).
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Kmach @ Apr 8th 2007 5:22AM
Just a quick response. The reason Live does require a subscription is because it does put every online gaming service to shame. Now Live has become the second largest movie download service behind Apple's Itunes. You get all this for about $1.50 a week, something tells me that if you can put money down on a 360, PS3, HDTV, and/or even a Wii the price isn't even worth mentioning.
However, something tells me that if the Live and Movie Downloads get even more popular (more downloads and advertising) then the Live service will become free.
I do agree that the price of the console should be dropped but with the elite coming out I think they will drop the price of the premium to $349 and the core to $249 to compete with the Wii. Also free Live wouldn't hurt either, although if your waiting for that you're going to be missing a lot of great gaming (I guess that goes for the 360 price drop as well).