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

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coolbeans said:

CGI-Quality said:

coolbeans said:
Dedicated servers are the developers decision to add, not XBL. While I do enjoy the features and all, I'll probably just run out my gold subscription and stay silver for probably the rest of this gen. The vaule is getting to show less and less since PS3 just basically needs to copy everything 360 does.

I seriously hope you're joking. If not, how misinformed you must be, and this is shocking coming from you. I mean, the same could be said of the 360 and the avatars, no? This can go many ways, even though I completely disagree with this "copying this, and copying that stuff" from any side.

No, no, no you must've misunderstood.  I'm not saying MS hasn't copied anything either, I only mean to focus on things such as how PS3 now also has Netflix while ,this was showed as a major deal for 360 a year earlier, is now not exclusive to one console.  PSN is coming up with their own great ideas no doubt about it, but the stuff that seems to hit home for XBL seems to also come to PSN down the road which is hurting the value of XBL Gold imo (timed exclusive features). 

Thats not copying though. When the rumors started it was originlly started with gaming consoles. Juts because MSFT locked in exclusivity by paying netflix (netflix surely didnt do this out of good will) i dont think you can call it "copying".

As for the LIVE comment. I think its a part of why we will see decreased sales. The problem though is Its not dependantly up to MSFT whether or not it effects the company, its more up to sony. I dont know how many friends families, or uninformed friends or their siblings have bought a 360 and then realized they needed a wi fi dongle, Live or a harddrive.

LIVE is a part of it, but i really think people arent aware of all the costs that come with the console that they can get for free with the PS3. The amount this effects sales is up to Sony, and their recent marketing campaign has been able to shine a light on it to some extent. I think theres a huge upside to displaying the difference here to make people aware.

Once people invest $200 or so in the console for xmas or whatever they can justify buying the dongle, hard drive or live since they just spent so much money on the gift, the only way it effects sales is to educate the consumer before they make the purchase on what all it entails, this is up to Sony, not MSFT.