If your friends wanted to play you on XBL, why wouldn't they already have an Xbox?
$199 too steep? Waiting for the price to drop down to $149? They'd still have to pay about $50 a year to stay on XBL.
At $199, price is not the limiting factor keeping most consumers from adopting the platform. Unless they're waiting for specific titles, better bundles, free hard drives or lower prices, there really isn't anything holding anyone back at this point.







