So Sony won't have netflix, big deal - sony doesn't need netflix anyway

[Grahamhsu]

^I read all the posts pertaining to this argument not once, twice, but three times to understand what the hell this argument is about.

To me I don't think Chrono even had a legit point, it's your choice to pay for both, just because I have Gold doesn't mean I have to get netflix. Yes I glanced at netflix, and i considered it for a good 1 minute before saying no I don't need it.

Sure it may seem like a somewhat asshole of a move from Microsoft to require Gold for Netflix, but if you don't have gold, why are you even online? Downloading a demo takes an hour at most, downloading a XBL arcade game takes 10-20 minutes. If you can't play your games online why would you take the time to hook your 360 to a router especially when it's wired.

When we pay for our Live Gold subscriptions I know it's because I can message my buddies on live, sure Silver accounts can also do the same messaging, but the question is why would they message people on Live when they have a silver account and can't even play with them. Who the hell enjoys messaging on a text pad to say how you doing without putting something on the end like "wanna play so and so." (besides me I like to give random hihi's to vgc members) Microsoft could've arrived at a similar conclusion, if you don't have Gold you probably aren't online with your box enough that Netflix should matter.

Also Microsoft spent time and money organizing this deal for their NXE, do they not deserve to gain some money from their work? I don't know if the 360 comes with Flash codecs, but what if it didn't, let's say MS had to create a flash codec to run on 360. Should that work be free?