>Only now it's not $100 more because I also get the equivilent of XBox Gold for free, which is $50
There is one big flaw with your argument. You are assuming that Sony is not going to charge for their online service. They haven't even releases the API for their online sdk so there is no way to know just what it will be able to do. Part of the reason that M$ charges for the service is it cost them money to run it. If Sony is going to offer the same set of features (which I don't think they will) then I bet you will see a cost to it.
Damn, I am thinking about working for EA now:) Tell me one other tech company that would have quarterly profits go down by 31% for like the 2nd or 3rd quarter in a row and still keep 95% of its work force. I know IBM and Intel are not that nice.
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>Only now it's not $100 more because I also get the equivilent of XBox Gold for free, which is $50 There is one big flaw with your argument. You are assuming that Sony is not going to charge for their online service. They haven't even releases the API for their online sdk so there is no way to know just what it will be able to do. Part of the reason that M$ charges for the service is it cost them money to run it. If Sony is going to offer the same set of features (which I don't think they will) then I bet you will see a cost to it.
Damn, I am thinking about working for EA now :) Tell me one other tech company that would have quarterly profits go down by 31% for like the 2nd or 3rd quarter in a row and still keep 95% of its work force. I know IBM and Intel are not that nice.