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It's only $60.00 a year... The normal price of a game. It has good features the PS3 lacks. I have both consoles and I prefer the Xbox 360 over the PS3. It seems the PS3 makes a lot of money on their DLC if you ask me. Uncharted has over 300 and Playstation All Stars charges $4.99 for each new character and $1.99 for stages along with other various forms of DLC. Little Big Planet 2 doesn't allow you to use community objects that were made from DLC content which I believe had over 5 packs around $4.99 each. I'm aware the Xbox 360 has DLC, but I don't think it forces it on people as much as the PS3.
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Only $60.00 a year? Only? Do you not realize that this is
the most expensive console online service in the history of video games? That this is literally the ONLY console that requires you to pay for online services? And yes, it is the normal price of a game. Which is a lot of money. But why pay? The only advantage xbox live has over PSN is cross game voice chat. That's not worth $60.00 per year.
I also do not understand your DLC example, considering the DLC you are complaining about is common on a large variety of games these days, not just those PS3 exclusives you pointed out. Its nothing horrible. Your example of DLC also does not make sense considering you are comparing a few games from PS3's large exclusive library to xbox's notably small one. In other words, the Xbox's game library mainly consists of multiplatform games that can be found on PS3 and Xbox 360. The Xbox only has Halo, Gears, and Forza as established franchises. The rest of the popular games on Xbox 360 are all multiplatform. So there is no "forcing" anything considering the same DLC is on the xbox. Now if you're purely comparing the colossal mountain of PS3 exclusives to the 3 main exclusives on Xbox, Halo has some pretty snide DLC as well. Their map packs are $14.99 each and there are playlists you cannot access without them. Not to mention that you cannot do anything besides campaign and custom games without paying for xbox live.
If you can find ONE advantage to owning an xbox besides cross game chat, I would be surprised. The exclusives on PS3 are varied, fascinating, and entertaining, the system is more powerful, and it has free online.