17th April 2007, 5:34 PM
http://www.gameinformer.com/NR/exeres/00...9295FE.htm
$50 a year, just like Xbox Live, though if you have an Xbox Live account it covers this too. How "nice".
The problem is, right now Nintendo is continuing on with their "functional online gaming is evil, we won't make an online network that Western audiences actually want to use" stance that might bring them Japanese success but will eventually cause greater and greater problems here until they change things, and Sony has a service no one thinks is anywhere near as good as Xbox Live, and doesn't look like it's going to recover anytime soon... we'll see if Home can do anything, but who knows when that will be out.
You'd need a law to force companies to do that. The prices without taxes use smaller numbers, so they will go up; post the tax and the price on the box is higher, perhaps dissuading some customers from buying the product even though it fact the price is the same.
In Europe, by the way, labelled prices do include tax. They have laws about that...
$50 a year, just like Xbox Live, though if you have an Xbox Live account it covers this too. How "nice".
Quote:Anyway, as I've said before, depending on how good Nintendo and Sony's free online services become (and Sony is ahead of Nintendo in that regard), MS may be forced to provide free online play in the silver account on the 360 too.
The problem is, right now Nintendo is continuing on with their "functional online gaming is evil, we won't make an online network that Western audiences actually want to use" stance that might bring them Japanese success but will eventually cause greater and greater problems here until they change things, and Sony has a service no one thinks is anywhere near as good as Xbox Live, and doesn't look like it's going to recover anytime soon... we'll see if Home can do anything, but who knows when that will be out.
Quote:Why do ALL stores insist on the lie of posting the price SANS the sales tax? That's hardly honest. Do they really think I care which part of my cash is going to the store vs which is going to government? Nope, I just care about how much is no longer going to be in my coffers!
You'd need a law to force companies to do that. The prices without taxes use smaller numbers, so they will go up; post the tax and the price on the box is higher, perhaps dissuading some customers from buying the product even though it fact the price is the same.
In Europe, by the way, labelled prices do include tax. They have laws about that...
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