as a consumer, the pay-to-play live gold model is why i boxed up my xbox and bought a ps3. it's up to MS to decide how many consumers they lost vs how much money live makes to detirmine it if is worth it to them.
...but if online was free on xbox 360 i believe we'd be living in an alternate future where playstation is dead and MS leads the console market. ms had so many competitive advantages going into this gen due to sony's mistakes. they really could have crushed sony, imo.








