EventHorizon
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One big problem for MS is that for people like me who owned a 360 before buying a PS3 is that it was easy to buy a PS3 as a second console because online was free, so didn't have to pay twice for online. But now if you want to buy an X1 you would have to pay for Xbox Live in addition to PS+ and I'm not willing to pay for two online services and without Xbox Live I probably don't want an X1.
So in my opinion, MS should rather make Xbox Live free than drop the price of the box itself.
Yep, I agree. I think part of the contraction of the gaming market that you here people talking about is driven by the fact that fewer people will buy multiple consoles due to both having recurring costs. Microsoft isn't going to make Live free, but the should offer a free 1 year subscription for a new purchase of an XB1.
Another thing going for the PS3 was that it was a pretty good, if not the best, Blu-Ray player at one time. That, along with a price drop, were what pushed me over to getting one as a secondary console. Other than the exclusive games it offers, the XB1 doesn't offer any other compelling reason to buy it, and the rise of the third party games has made exclusives lesss of an incentive buy. Maybe in 2-3 years the Xbox will have built up enough exclusive non-internet required games to make buying the console worth it. Unfortunately I get the feeling that Microsoft wants to tie online functionality very deeply into their games. So the idea of buying an XB1 without a gold subscription will never make sense.