Xbox Live Gold is not good value, and it is holding the 360 back

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dorbin2009 said:
So let me ask you something. What separates your "Live is holding Microsoft back" from the times I've heard similar rants in 2008, 2007,2006, and late 2005?

50 a year is chicken scratch. Are you telling me you can't afford 4.25 a month?

Also Xbox live has proven to be far more stable than PSN in stress tests (I.e. Call of Duty debaucle). It simply is not fair to compare it to the PC.

The console will probably hit 34 million units sold by the end of the week. If you want to call that a number stifled by Xbox live, then that's your opinion. I just think its wrong.

Paragraph by paragraph:

1- What separates my rant from past ones is that now we're at the point where the 360's online system makes it a more expensive alternative than the PS3. We're also at the point that this might be giving a visible edge in favor of the PS3.

2- I can afford it just fine. That doesn't mean I think it's worth it (see my previous post).

3- Whether Xbox Live is more stable than the PSN or not I don't know and is besides the point. I gather that the PSN does have dedicated servers for many games, and surely it could be improved if Sony charged for it.

4- Irrelevant.