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Xbox Live Goes Online

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-what-are-the-games dept.

abhikhurana writes " Internetnews is reporting that Microsoft has launched Xbox Live broadband gaming service. To access Microsoft's service, Xbox gamers have to buy a $49.99 starter kit, which includes 12 month's worth of access to the Xbox Live service and a headset kit for voice communications. Microsoft said that about 16 games with online play capabilities will be available by the end of the year. So has anyone already tried it? If so, what do you think about it?"

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  1. Re:Why do you guys hate Xbox so much? by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 2, Redundant
    Well, I for one am a bit scared of the possibility of Microsoft dominating yet another market which currently has healthy competition and quite a bit of innovation in it.

    History has shown time and time again that when Microsoft go for a market, they don't tend to be happy with just being a competitor, they try their hardest to own it, then to kill the competition, then if somehow some competition gets through to stop you, the customer, from using it.

    I'm not a big console user, but I kind of hope that Microsoft aren't too successful, because if they stranged another market, especially one as vibrant as the console market, it'd be a reall shame.