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And that's why it makes more sense for MS to keep their XBL price structuring as is. Only a minority of people paying for it are complaining. Others will just stop subscribing. Either way, at this point, MS has already established a working system that partially depends upon subscriptions fee revenues as a part of their bottom line.

I'm getting the impression you didn't read that very clearly since you only homed in on the text you bolded.

Developers, engineers, infrastructure are a part of the same bottom line. All companies have them including Nintendo and Sony, neither of which factor in service fees for online play as a part of their bottom line. This is really restating the obvious.

Burger King. They did the promos along with the Burger King video games. I also recall seeing them Fall 07. It really doesn't matter if they started displaying ads for Xbox edition Nike footwear. They make Dashboard look like a billboard, which would be fine if it were a web browser, but seeing as how its an enclosed system I find it distasteful.

You could make it a hundred friends who just had PS3s that inexplicably broke on them and it still wouldn't validate your claim, particularly since the OP had nothing to do with the reliability of the PS3 which is commonly known to be far greater than the 360.

Nobody is denying this.

The only reason for bringing up one anecdotal comparison is to validate your support of the 360 platform. In buying the hardware and games, I support the platform as well, but as it's far from being the only platform I use for gaming, I'm far less likely to overemphasize its merits in a cheerleader manner while taking a harder look at its shortcomings.