Until MS starts losing sales b/c of the high price, they will probably stick with it, because XBL brings in the money , bigtime.

Whoever said "YAWN" on the 1st page is right.

This guy is totally right.  You shouldn't be paying $50 for those things at all.  They come free.  The article author is going to have to dig more to find his $50 worth.

The only thing better about live is party chat with up to like 8 people. Other than that PSN = XBL in terms of quality. Oh yeah and its free.

Oh I forgot about avatars and netflix. 2 things I don't care about.

Xbox live is still better than psn if only slightly but you really can't blame sony for that they don't have millions coming in from subscriptions to make psn better so end of the day live is worth the money

XD What are you smoking? It must be some pretty powerful stuff. 

I use both Live and PSN, and the difference isn't "a little."

Online games on XBox Live are far far better than on PSN. There is a larger user base, the connections are better, games are easier to play online, community is much more cohesive and easy to navigate/manage, integration with Zune marketplace, Netflix...

50$, is damn pocket change spread over a year.  A buck a week? I find that change scattered throughout my house on a weekly basis.

Lesson: You will most likely, get more for paying. If you're honestly going to tell me that PSN and Live are the same, I will say lay of the damn crack.

No it's completely worth it, the best isn't free you know.

I was wondering why in LIVE you can host 12 players game and not lag, but in PC it will lag like hell. I don't get the P2P thing.

$50 a year may be a relatively small amount, but over the lifespan of a console, it is not. If you pay for 5 years of service you're effectively adding $250 to the cost of your console purchase. You don't pay all at once at the till, but you pay. And it is soooo not worth it IMO. Very happy with PSN. It's free, and the feature gap, as stated in the article, is minimal and ever closing. The most important feature, playing online games, is as good as or better on PSN. And if you look at the bullet-point features on the side of a 360 box, MS has the gall to list XBOX LIVE as ''free''. Yes, the do-nothing Silver is free, but who cares. Another method MS uses to dupe the ignorant into thinking they are getting somrthing they are not. Just like the Arcade sku - expensive propietary hard-drive grift. And where did Squilliam vanish to? Too much red at the top I suppose.....

You talk about finding cheaper games on Amazon so why couldn't someone search the net for cheaper Live prices? This thread is total crap and is just looking to stir stuff up.

I don't think I know anyone who pays $50 for live in my circle of friends. And anyone who has played both PSN and live will tell you that Live is much better than fanboys give it credit for. It is leaps and bounds better than PSN (IMO).