I actually expect Microsoft to decrease the cost of XBL, but when Kinect came out, they just increased it. No offense, but when the PS3 has Steamworks(Portal 2), Netflix, and Hulu for no extra cost, they should rethink the cost of XBL gold.
Thanks, yeah I've never heard of Zune, I don't think Apple has anything to worry about if that is their competition.Zune is Microsoft's answer to iPod/iTunes. It didn't do bad, but not groundbreaking. Netflix costs money, and no its not free with XBL Gold.
But the time when you can play online for free with XBL is when either hell freezes over or when MS stops being greedy, or when the other 2 have better online than MS.
Yeah, I just saw a deal for %25 off for a year's membership, but it's still not worth it to me. The only thing that I would use is the ability to play online with friends, and I do it so seldom that it doesn't make any sense to pay even a low fee for it when PS3 is free.You do realize that Sony has already stated that they are going to be charging for PSN soon and about the XBL Gold just pay attention to the Spotlight section on the dashboard, they always have some kind of deal going on for it.
PSN+ is somewhat like XBL Gold, but apparently Sony will keep online multiplayer free. They offer free games(full for a while I think), and other things I never heard about, but multiplayer is still free.