Beer expects all online stuff to be free?  Well, I have new for him – it isn’t in much of the PC world either. In Warcraft (a monthly fee) most all the guilds use an external voice chat system (also another fee) and that added up to much more than Xbox Live's fees.  With Xbox Live you get gaming, other apps and the voice chat included.  I'm not saying I like that adds, but it's really only one square in the corner.  (Ironically, the only time it really, bugged me was the flashing/dancing Warcraft add.)  I’m not saying I like fees either, but you are paying for function.

I also call BS on the Mass Effect Story. It may happened to someone, and he is just telling a story to have something dramatic to say.  He also seems to hate MS and Kinect.  Plus the two guys are talking about how terrible Kinect (Fable Jourey) is And they admit they HAVEN’T PLAYED IT!

Anyone who has played Skyrim with the Voice in Kinect will know how incredibly useful it is for thing like 'Sort by Weight,' or ‘Sort by Value.’   Plus, it is just way fun to shout your shouts! (And if you want to, you can learn Dragontongue and shout that.)

Most of the best Kinect games are 8/10.  Which isn't bad, but perhaps some expected more, I give you that. (Dance Central 3 is the only 10/10 I can recall.)  Microsoft had been working on something like that long before PrimeSence walked in with their 3D camera (which had already been reject by Nintendo, Sony and Apple.) 

“Kinect should have an App store” clearly, he doesn’t know about Kinect Fun Labs.  Which is little, mostly free, creative apps to try out.

Looks like Beer had a rough time with the Xbox 360. He said his profile got hacked, Gold is too expensive, too many ads, he gets owned by 12 year olds online, the Kinect games he hasn't played really suck. If I were him, I'd just leave the Xbox brand alone.

I don't know about hackers on steam, i haven't come across any but i persume they would be tough on them. Also i know about the messenger, i use that alot but my point was that steam can let use any messenger you like, most people i know use skype. I don't know how you came to the conclusion, that steam in europe is not very good i never said that at all. Steam is a great service. I don't about you but I say PC have software and phones have apps, as PC software is usually way more than an app. Also, i know steam games have achievements, but they are just not taken seriously on steam, thats all. And yes you can change your avatar like anyone else, but it seems xbox has better variety of avatars and finally, yeah the community is awesome hear. i'm don't know how came to what you said from my post really

Pachter (as always) is wrong again ...

I worked at a company aggregating advertisements to increase revenue for large businesses and I can say with a high level of certainty that EVERYONE hates ads, especially when they've already paid for a service; and any service that people pay for generally has very poor ad performance. As a guideline, I would suggest companies decide whether they want to be paid services or free with advertisements because if you do both you will (likely) see people cancel their paid service (if your ads are obtrusive) and you will have an abysmal click-through rate.

As much as I hate Pach he did make some good points though. We pay an exorbitant amount of money these days for cable / satellite TV subscriptions, and there's tons and tons of ads on cable but no one ever says anything about it. And when you read a magazine / newspaper that you subscribe to you are bombarded with page after page of advertisements while you search for the one article you're actually interested in reading.

I bet the same people who balk at spending an extra $5 a month at the absolute most for XBL Gold are the same ones who have monthly cell phone bills north of $100.

People complain about the ads on XBL for the sake of complaining. XBL is the only place imo where the ads are not annoying at all .

Microsoft's box, Microsoft's rules. If you don't like the rules then pay for someone else's box.

I personally found Xbox Live to be quite good as a gaming service when I used to play on consoles a lot more than I do now. Whilst I don't have an Xbox Live subscription active I wouldn't mind paying for a good experience. Why do people bitch about Xbox Live costing $60? You can play for free on other services or you can pay for the Microsoft Xbox Live Gold account and either way doesn't justify over 100 responses.

Your assuming that MS will not have a lot to add to xbox live when they release a new concole. I think they will have plenty to add to it to again be ahead of psn. I think they will be able to do this due to the fact that their online service is a profitable business so it gives more money to reinvest in live, where psn has to take that money from somewhere else. We will see when the next consoles launch what differences there aree and again we will have the choice to buy a system with free online or to buy a xbox.

I see controller for what they are, even with Wii Motion Plus, Skyward Sword still wasn't perfect by far, and Move.... well, lets just say they purposely gimp it for FPS so people won't have an edge, it's the stupidest and most pointless thing ever made by Sony IMO. Kinect v1 is just not very good for a machine like 360 is how I see it, I think it has good potential though, think about a high res one with enough horse power on the device and the host device that can track thousands of points with good camera angles, that, would fucking rock.

This more or less sums up Marcus Beer, to me he comes across in that video as a guy that is still pisses that his account got hacked.