26th May 2005, 10:58 PM
DJ Wrote:XBox Live isn't 50 a month, it's 50 a year. That's a big difference. There is NO way I'm paying 50 a month just to play a game online, and no way they could justify such a fee. Even MMORPGs cap the price to 15 a month max. From what I understand about the 360 Gold Package, it's still 50 a month.
That's what I meant, the 360 Gold Package is 50 a month from what I understand. Though I suspect they will sell a year-long package for $150 or whatever. I believe it was at the conference where MS said the 360 gold package will be 50 a month. Am I totally talking about of my butt?
As for the PS3, the system they're using for PS2 online games is developer choice as you said. But I believe I also heard in their conference that they're creating an online network for PS3. If this is the case, I would suspect they would charge for it, it seems the Sony thing to do.
What Nintendo does is totally up in the air, since thy've said the DS will be free online, i'm only assuming the Rev will be too.
Also, with my projected prices, I dont think i'm too far off based on current tech and prices. I'm looking at full packages as well, the whole kit and kaboodle. Looking at a GC for example, you can see the logic:
100 Gamecube
30 Extra Controller (wavebird)
20 Memory Card
50 Game
100 GBA w/game
$300 full package cost
The memory cards (first party) down here are 20 bucks each (for the normal size) the largest first party Nintendo cards are 25. Are PS2 memory cards 30?