29th August 2006, 11:43 PM
Fixed your quote tag... :)
I said 'may' because that depends on the game... the "no monthly fee MMO-ish game" genre is becoming more popular on PCs with the success of stuff like Guild Wars. Who says it won't eventually come to consoles too (of course it could be said that the original Phantasy Star Online was such a game, but then they added fees from version 2...)?
Interesting, didn't know that. Still though, I'd expect that most people interested enough in online X360 games to pay for a montly-fee online game are going to have Live Gold subscriptions...
That's what MS says too, and some things are less useful for some people, but I'd still bet that the average console-plus-additions price for a X360 is going to be above $600. Microsoft has benefitted so much among hardcore gamers from all this anger aimed at Sony for its pric, who as usual just look at the initial sticker price and not the hidden costs behind it...
Really, both consoles are absurdly expensive. There hadn't been a $400 console since the Saturn for a reason... but now we have two at and above that level! Four years of Live and that X360 costs just as much as a PS3, and that's with a harddrive one third the size, without the wi-fi, and without HD-DVD/Blu-Ray (though whether that is a problem or not remains to be seen... the failure of both formats seems like perhaps the most likely result from this war, honestly...)... does that make the PS3 better? No, but it makes the "Get a X360 because PS3 is so expensive" people sound somewhat absurd.
Just get a Wii and save your money... :D
Quote:MMOs will have additional fees. Free only means it's free to get online on the system, it doesn't include individual game fees.
I said 'may' because that depends on the game... the "no monthly fee MMO-ish game" genre is becoming more popular on PCs with the success of stuff like Guild Wars. Who says it won't eventually come to consoles too (of course it could be said that the original Phantasy Star Online was such a game, but then they added fees from version 2...)?
Quote:MMOs do not require Live Gold. Playing them is included with the free live. They are the only game genre that doesn't require XBox Live because they use the company's game servers instead of MS's.
Interesting, didn't know that. Still though, I'd expect that most people interested enough in online X360 games to pay for a montly-fee online game are going to have Live Gold subscriptions...
Quote:You actually bring up a good point, though to be honest I have no intention of buying all those add-ons anyway. The "out of the box" features are pretty much all I'll use.
That's what MS says too, and some things are less useful for some people, but I'd still bet that the average console-plus-additions price for a X360 is going to be above $600. Microsoft has benefitted so much among hardcore gamers from all this anger aimed at Sony for its pric, who as usual just look at the initial sticker price and not the hidden costs behind it...
Really, both consoles are absurdly expensive. There hadn't been a $400 console since the Saturn for a reason... but now we have two at and above that level! Four years of Live and that X360 costs just as much as a PS3, and that's with a harddrive one third the size, without the wi-fi, and without HD-DVD/Blu-Ray (though whether that is a problem or not remains to be seen... the failure of both formats seems like perhaps the most likely result from this war, honestly...)... does that make the PS3 better? No, but it makes the "Get a X360 because PS3 is so expensive" people sound somewhat absurd.
Just get a Wii and save your money... :D
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