| TheTruthHurts! said: If you cant afford, oh......say $8.00 monthly, you really shouldn't have even bought a PS$3$! |
That's pretty stupid. I owned my PS2 for about 6-years, maybe more. I never played it online. If I did play it online and had been paying a monthly fee of lets say $8 a month I would have paid roughly $576 just to play online games. I figure the next system I buy will last me at least 4-years. If I paid $4 a month for 4-years that's $192. If I paid $8 a month for 4-years that's $384. Both are a good chunk of change; think about all the other things that money could have gone towards - like the beer you could have drank while playing PS3 online for free. As long as I can get online and play games with a few friends for free I'm happy. I don't need anything else like achievements or home. I still don't think 360 is as good as the options on PC, yet online on the PC is free.
The monthly fee of Live, while the PSN offers free online is one thing that swings my decision towards the PS3. You have to remember that there are a lot of people out there that still do not have a 360 or PS3, some don't even have internet. When they do get a system and decide to go online that's just one more cost they have to come up with. I have a few friends in this situation now. They will probably buy a system by the end of this year, will most likely get an ISP and play games online. When I told them 360 makes you pay to play online and PS3 was free, they didn't like the idea of the 360 so much.
One problem I know I would have with Live is I would want the best value for my money. I would buy a years worth of Live to get it cheaper. I know there would be times (weeks if not months) of me playing a PC game, other console game, or just not be interested in playing anything on Live and would wasting money. I know there are a lot of things like that now, cable tv for example, but there is not something close enough for free to make that decision.
If there were a cell phone company that gave you free talk service if you bought their phone, but you couldn't get text messages or pictures, I'd choose the free one. I really don't need the extra stuff, even if it may be cool or better.
Now if PSN started to charge for their service, the Live service would look that much better if they were evenly priced. I hope it stays free though as I plan to buy a PS3 and that is one reason I am choosing it over the 360. I have enough monthly bills as it is, I don't want any more.
