You do know that you are not enlightening me in anyway right? I called this even before the consoles were released yet you keep quoting me like you are breaking new ground that I have not already known beforehand. NONE of that shyt you just posted is xbox exclusive. They are putting walls in and you morons are falling right into it. Its $35 now (which isnt retail) and will only continue to rise if you fools keep allowing it to happen. In fact I am surprised there is not more tiers of service yet for you fools to eat up.Its gonna be a cable service, I only told you this 6yrs ago!!!
It'll be cheaper than cable too. This is what is offered to XBL Gold members...
1080p streams of UFC (Cable maxes out at 1080i)
And
And I can watch the NBA and NCAA right now split screen like this
Hold on, just getting started. You like Anime? Here's all of them
You seen them all? Ok, how about new ones like one week after they air in Japan?
Or if you was somebody who traveled alot like Rekkapryde? How about taking Fios with you on the go? 75 channels
They live stream concerts, all the presidential debates. But you know what we was doing while watching this stuff?
And with the 720, all that will be as one. Not one app has it, everything we watch will have us connected so you'll see real-time results of polls/etc.
How about sports? Right now you can pick who is gonna win in every sport and it keeps track of yours and your friends picks and displays that while you watch!!!
If you don't like sports, how about FOX television programming? Simpsons/American Dad, FAmily guy? Cuz everything is free on there within 24hrs of it airing on that channel
Every week we get discounts on games/movies/everything
If you go to the movies/tv section besides having everything before Redbox
They often have free TV shows before they air. I'm talking almost every show that comes on ABC, NBC, CBS.. if its a bigtime show, the pilot will be on XBL a month before it airs on TV
Didn't know that did you?
Finally and most importantly, the fact that every popular game there is, gets patched immediately and often so the gaming experience isn't altered to benefit cheaters is well worth the $35
Thats if you want to ignore all the other shyt I just posted. And I didnt even really begin to get into it because I have written enough already.,.
Out of all devices/platforms I can think of (iPad, Surface, Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux, PS3, etc) NONE put a wall up to access certain content. Its ridiculous you idiots keep spinning the same wheel to try to make it seem acceptable...it should NOT be.
Let that same pricing structure be implemented by Apple for the iPad and the whole internet will flip upside down with people angry about them putting in a secondary fee just to access content you pay to a third party on top of that.