Wii-U

[BumblebeeCody]

(11-12-2012 08:19 AM)Gardocki Wrote:  Well see there's then monkey wrench in the works. A big part of your Xbox Live Gold membership covers the overhead for game patches, updates, DLC and good technical support. If the service is free, with no one covering the cost of overheads, it won't be the best. Nintendo isn't going to eat the cost of keeping the service up to the standards of Xbox Live. Hell, Sony won't even do it, so why would Nintendo?

I generally find that admitting paying for service is that it must be good. When really it's not. There isn't anything that Microsoft do; that warrants paying for the service, that the others don't. Patches, DLC (often PAID timed DLC between Microsoft (Capcom games especially)) . Also DLC is generally overpriced. If you look at Microsoft through the years (Gears of War) DLC has been increasing.

Gears 1 had a few maps for a cheap price(400) and some for free.
Gears 2 had maps pack (of 3 only) for 800M$+ points
Gears 3 had 2400+ MS points worth of DLC on day 1

Same with Call of Duty
Cod 2: Maps were 200 M$+ points
Cod 4: Maps are 800 M$ points
Cod whatever it is now: 1200...

Also Microsoft forcefully tell Value to charge for the DLC campaigns. They are free on PC and they want them to be free on Xbox but Microsoft won't allow that (Which is why they had an odd price of 560).

Xbox LIVE is nothing special and others nothing that the others don't. Also, it's a peer-to-peer network. Lazy lazy....

Nintendo and PS3 offer Netflix as a free download app for Wii/PS3 owners whereas Microsoft restrict you to Gold Membership only. Also, you Gold membership doesn't pay for technical support and isn't factored into whether gold is good. It's legal standard that technical support is good (and the few times I've had a problem with my Gamertag, Microsoft have been great and easy to work with). Nintendo and Sony also have a great technical support...but their service is free.

I personally find Sony thought about gamers first. The whole point of a games console is that you play games. Playing DVDs, Music, Apps, Web browsing means nothing to me because I care about playing games only. If you don't have gold you can play games (awesome) but then you're paying for crap you don't want. Sony offer their online service for free but the option to upgrade to gain all the extra crap. Gaming is a priority with their service. Nintendo have nothing but to offer a gaming online service. No apps or other nonsense.