Xbox's biggest obstacle heading into next generation

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KeptoKnight said:

1. 1st party titles - Most people remember Halo, Gears and umm?.....

2. Steambox -Valve "American contender" (We do not know the price, but if it is $449 that is definitely adding spice to the competition. STEAM eats Live and has impressive software sales (holidays and black friday) I assume they can launch the console with software sales if they wanted to. ***Some people say they will not be that much of a competition ***
I say they will be in the long run. They will start slow but will be building up momentum as people get introduced.
I will stop piracy habit totally when they release their console because of their software sales like in PC.

3. They lost Japan.

4. Is Steam, Nintendo network and Playstation Network free?

Gears isnt first party.