How will Sony and Microsoft's philosophy towards online gaming change

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ckmlb said:

shams said:

ssj12 said:
Microsoft needs to learn that PC gaming = free so online gaming should = free. I'll side with Sony going completely free online.

Sony are the masters of milking consumers. They claim/market it to be free - and it is - but you will get bugger all for that. Pay extra for just about everything else.

Nintendo's online will be focused on "ease of use". They want anyone to be able to use their online service - this is their core focus.

 

You're saying a free Home and everything that entails is not good enough?

You're getting dedicated servers for free, Live doesn't have that generally... how is this not Sony doing better than MS in that regard?

Live will be free sometime in the next two years I predict.

I hope you are right.  The barriers preventing me from owning a 360 are:  hardware failures way too high, a lot of console exclusives also on the PC which would be more useful for me to upgrade, and charging for free online features that battle.net and others have had for more than a decade. 

I think PS3's online service is already better than Live's, just because of the dedicated servers not having a host bias...oh, and not having lag.  XMB access while in-game is coming soon, and that is about the last feature that I care about.  Home will be icing.