The reason why you pay for Xbox Live - An attempted Explanation

[Comrade Tovya]

twesterm said:

KylieDog said:
No, I'm saying if its done for that price of a game on PS3 and remains free to play online, the same can be done for the 360, since it is priced identical.

 

Or you could be saying you really should be mad at the developers that price their 360 at $60 and not MS since they're doing something that should decrease the price of games (on the 360 at least).

 

Exactly!  Blame the developers for charging us the same even though they incur less charges due to us footing the server bill... or we could blame ourselves.  It's a free market created situation really.  They charge $60 for a game they have less self-incurred cost on, and we still pay for it.  Why should they charge any less if we are willing to pay more?

Either way, even at $60.00, video games are well worth the price.  Two Blu-rays or four standard DVDs cost the same, and you only get 4-8 hours of pleasure out of them.  Each video game, on the other hand, generally get played for literally hundreds of hours (or in my case thousands).  I'd imagine a game like COD4 for me has probablly only cost me about 2 or 3 cents an hour to play for me because I have racked up so many hours on it (both console versions actually).

Long story short, video games and online services (free or not) are actually very cheap when compared to other forms of entertainment.