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JaggedSac on 24 June 2008
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greenmedic88 said:
He's probably referring to the stereo, not the car. Then again, people pay subscription services for Sirius satellite radio (and Sirius enabled stereos) which is considerably better than standard broadcast radio for many.

Maybe not the best analogy. Instead if XM satellite radio was hypothetically a free service, and Sirius was not, the only reason to pay for Sirius would be if it had specific channels you as a listener were willing to pay for.

It's the same argument many two or three console owners are making, even if they supposedly only make up 2-5% of the entire console market according to that recent study.

If someone has a PS3 and play online, they have a PSN account. Free account for the most fundamental reason for having an online console: to play online. The only reason they would also be paying for their XBL account is if they were either buying all their games for the 360, or all their friends were on XBL. Otherwise it's like paying for milk when you already own a cow.

If the $50 were really nothing, MS wouldn't be charging for it. But it means less to the typical subscriber than it does for MS, which uses those revenues to add to their bottom line, much like the junk food and fast food ads in Dashboard, which are arguably more annoying than any service fees.

I keep my 360 unplugged from the net and only connect it for updates or when I want to download demos/games for that very reason.

 

It is just like the sales tax. A little from everybody adds up to a lot. And nice of you to glance over the main points of my post. I barely notice ads on Live, and I don't recall any fast food ads. Mostly it is advertisements of things you can download on the service, which, in my mind, is a good way to get the message out there. What are your thoughts on the cost of developers, engineers, and infrastructure?

And watch this...I have 5 friends who each had to get their PS3s fixed within the past 3 weeks because of dust. See how easy it is. All posts with contents like this are immediately, in my mind, bollocks.