| JaggedSac said: Remember that M$ did not release a Spring Live update. They are probably waiting because they are releasing some very big features for the Fall update. Sony is now catching up to features that Live had as of last update and since Live inception. You are paying $50 a year to pay for developers, engineers, hardware, infrastructure, etc. Some companies just decide to pay for these things in other ways. Why is it justified for WoW to charge monthly and Guild Wars not? |
Yeah I mean, I guess I can see what we are paying for, and Sony is eating all of those costs to keep PSN free. I just don't think a paying customer is going to sympathetic to whatever minute costs the multi-billion dollar company Microsoft has to endure paying developers for Live upgrades.
I'll be generous and give developing a Live update a costs of $1.5 million dollars, though I think its much less than that. They make $50 a pop, from atleats 10,000,000 customers a year. I don't see how that even comes close to evening out. Before it was, because XBL was unique. Now XBL isn't unique, and PSN is free.
But I'm starting to see that this is pointless. I guess what I consider to be an undeniable conclusion others see as fanboy talk and an attack against XBL. Really I think that if you don't have a console yet, XBL costing money and PSN being free is a huge blow to Microsoft, especially with features now being so evenly matched. We shall see with the holidays approaching.
