X360 Elite

[A Black Falcon]

Microsoft is supposed to be shifting over to the 65nm process midsummer...so I wouldn't expect a price drop across the board until then. It might not even happen though seeing as how MS wants to keep the price high as long as possible so they can make some money off their hardware. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

I know their motivations, but that doesn't make it any less stupid... they can't win by raising the price! All they'll do is target even more exclusively the same hardcore gamer and tech-fan market which the X360 and PS3 already target...

Microsoft will be able to charge for Live as long as it remains the best service available (I predict for quite a while). PSN is crap.

I know PSN isn't that good and Nintendo's online service is one of the worst excuses for an "online" network ever concieved, but still, charging for what should be free just isn't right. And now they're extending that (if just in part) to PC gamers? No, that's wrong!