LOL, yeah I bet he wants you to think of Xbox as a service. He wants you to pay up for xbox live - $60/year = $300 every 5 years.

Best of all xbox live gives nothing for the subscription! They "Allow" You to access basic online function for the internet you already paid for. They "allow" you to go purchase a subscription to Netflix.

PS+ is way better, it's $10 cheaper/year and gives huge AAA quality free games. In 6 months I've gained 12 awesome AAA PS3 games, 15 PS Vita games including Uncharted and huge dicsounts/exclusives, free premium themes and avatars ect. While xbox does nothing. Not to mention Playstation also has free exclusive content in all the best multi plat AAA games like Red Dead, LA Noire, Mafia 2, Batman AA & AC, Assassins Creed, FEAR, Saints Row 3, Mass Effect 2, Far Cry 3 etc.

And don't forget that all xbox has any more is dried up old Halo and Gears...both of which have a version on PC that is free online play the PC way. In addition Alan Wake, All the FAbles, Battlestations, Left 4 Dead are all on PC. Bioshock, Mass Effect & Saints Row already jumped xbox's ship.

So xbox is left with nothing. They will probably rub out 360 gamers just like orig. xbox gamers and will try to force upgrades like they did PC gamers with Halo 2 (made it Vista only - no reason other than scam to force upgrades).

I'm sure xbox learned from RROD but it was still 5 years of 55% failures, still had no wifi for 5 years (add $100), no blu ray yet console expensive - why?, no browser for 8 years while Wii and PS3 had it since launch, DVD's scratch far easier than blu ray and M$ left out $0.25 plastic buffer...even in slims so if it's bumped or moved it ruins $60 game. And disk swapping like it's 1995 thanks to DVD only. not to mention old CD tray and huge power brick.

Also controller sucks on 360 - $50 without blue tooth, gyroscope or built in battery reacharge. Wii mote & PS3 have bluetooth & Gyroscope. PS3 has built in recharge both are $50. Xbox add $20 for recharge making each $70 without the high tech PS3 and Wii mote have.

Beware going into the next generation. Xbox scams, the only one pay to play, pay for right to access basic internet you pay for on your overpriced console, it's best exclusives are on PC, no core exclusives since kinect has come and they will probably rub out 360 gamers and xbox live might go up and certainly xbox live won't give anything for free like PS+.

Oh and for the fanboys..xbox live is unsecure. The reason it was a big deal in late 2010 when Geo Hotz jailbroke PS3 is because it was considered unbreakable. Then Anon came after Sony for suing Geo Hotz HOWEVER NO SONY CUSTOMERS LOST MONEY. Sony gave great compensation and free credit protection and no one lost money. However XBOX GAMERS DID LOSE MONEY IN 2011. First Xbox live was down for 2 weeks in 2007, in 2011 3 accidental bans on xbox live subscribers (thousands of people accidently banned) and in 2011 (supposedly due to phising schemes) xbox live customers accounts were hacked, M$ points stolen and those accounts with credit cards attached to them had them charged for more M$ points which were then also stolen. Sony customers lost no money and no one is perfectly safe. Always use due diligence when purchasing online (like using network cards or having a separate checking for all online activity).