Lafiel on 29 October 2009
Xbox live has some nice advantages over PSN, as it is integration is more sophisticated and matured. ("a generation ahead" is marketing talk though)
I can see why people are willing to pay for that, although their initial motivation to subscribe to the gold service might have been to be able to play online.
Having said that I personally have no further use for it's additional services and features and as PSN always has been a reliable method for online gaming for me I'm content with whats offered to me by Sony for free.
