X-Box 360 numbers.

[mrstickball]

ookaze said: I'll have to agree with Kwaad's numbers here. Because the subscription fee for XB360 is more than personal preferences. This is one of the core feature of the XB360, and this feature is there in every game for XB360. That means that if you don't have the Gold (or whatever its name) membership for XB360, you actually lose a lot of the console appeal. So with all the emphasis put on online play, you can't write the subscription fee out of the way without removing lots of XB360 advantages. Look at mrstickball : lots of praise of XBL, but he can't even use it ! So what's the point ? Must be what is called a fanboy.

Like I said - I can use silver. I can download any game I want to, download any patch, get all kinds of freebies, and download anything I want. Does having to pay $2.91 a month suck for online? Yes, kinda. But I'm already paying $30 for internet a month. $2.91 a month isn't that bad. And if I really did decide to play online alot, half of the games I'd buy to play online already come with free 1 month and 3 month subscriptions to XBL for free. So lets look at the numbers even if you want to complain about a gold card: $34.99 - 1 year Gold Subscription x 5 years (the max that you'd want to be playing 360 on XBLA for) = $174.95 Add that in on a core with a $100 free gift card + a free 1 month subscription to XBL Gold, a $24.95 memory card, and you have a grand total of $399.90 for being able to play online for 5 years + a mem card. Again, if you want to crunch numbers, atleast get the numbers right. XBLA is $34.99 for a year. Thats $2.91 a month. Add in the fact that your games get a bit of free content that PSN doesn't give out, and you make the money back. Add in the fact you get a far superior online network versus Playstation's, and you get what you pay for. Is free better? Absolutely. But atleast at $2.91 I'm getting a better system, and not a worse one!