Money now a days is scarce. Microsoft is just hurting themselves and our pockets. But overall, it might be worth it.

I've been able to easily catch up with my friends on Lost, The Office and 30 Rock, which is nice. No disc-shipping required.

ar some great points, if MS does decide to raise live to $100 then they better provide a service for it.

PS3 fanboys are desperate to keep this rumor going, lol.

youre stupid lol!

A Disc or xboxlive?
Thats such a hard desicion.

What the hell is so awesome about xboxlive?
Nothing. Save yourself some money and grow a brain.
lol!

xbox owners are in the acceptance stage

first fear, then denial, now acceptance, get the lube ready.

its all good as long as the xbox players are willing to roll over lol

which they most probably will be :P

sony users shouldnt think they are safe... sony wont sit quiet if this goes through muahahaha

do it micro.. just do it

The more money xbox360 users burn the more well funded ps3 exclusives become. Ask Atlus and Rockstar. They know how important it is to have a beta tester actually pay thier boss to work.

Its like a pimp paying a hoe & the hoe pays sony.

DUAL SHOCKERS - F OFF!

What is dualshockers doing back here every week?

Dual shockers wrote an article (Troll article to get hits like they usually do) about a month ago claiming how N4G was Obsolete and Twitter was the future

yet here they are daily, weekly trying to get flame bait articles up so they can get hits on their website

F OFF dual suckers, and joel is fat and ugly

If you paid $100 to ms now and said it's more than worth it, since live is $50(for now).. Would ms refund you that extra $50 back or would they keep it.

hmm..

What is dual suckers doing back here?

Dual suckers wrote an article (Troll article to get hits like they usually do) about a month ago claiming how N4G was Obsolete and Twitter was the future

yet here they are daily, weekly trying to get flame bait articles up so they can get hits on their website

F OFF dual suckers, and joel is fat and ugly

I wish you console idiots would realise that you are always paying for stuff we get for free on the PC

this is site is not full of real "gamers" but paid shills who come on here to bash each other. This is my crusade, look into it people the real scam here is the fact that most of the people posting dont even game, in fact they actually hate gaming, that is why thier poison is so effective. You have been warned, those people disagreeing for no reason, arguing with no logic, and making false claims with impunity are here to destroy gaming.

you just gone and blew it there at 1st you seemed to be going somewher with this article but its obviously another 360 fanboys attempt to justify th inevitable 100% price increase for xbox live good look fanboys theres no game thats worth that

wasn't it just the other day that some of these MS fanboys were arguing that you usually don't have to pay $50 bucks for xbox live it can be found for less? Now they're hoping the price goes up! LOL I'm almost pissing on myself this is so funny.

Can't b serious..a hundo for xbl year subc..lmfao..

I don't care either way as I refuse to pay 50 so I certainly won't be paying 100 unless I get to game with Megan Fox while she is naked on a webcam or something.

How MS can do this to their fan base, xbox live in some parts of the world actually cost $100 bucks why do we even use computers for if you really want to look at your facebook page or myspace account for.

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They could justify it if, they made all DLC content free via Gold, that means any expanision packs for games etc, if the user base was high enough they could pull it off

Why does everybody give this Pachter so much attention? he makes these statements to provoke...this guy is a fake..does he want to stir things up so eventually the price will get raised? who will benefit from such useless statements? he alone...if we continue to give these dumbos attention we all lose..come on people stop taking this guy serious..he has no expertise...his exepertise is to make provoking statements..

Cause if anybody remember what HipHopgamershow said in his videopodcast M$ is putting TV service in their xbot so there going to overprice the service WOW! this is 100% Classic for Micro$oft.

this is not a real article

this has no news value

the folks who take strong stances on it in the comments are not real gamers, because real gamers are not mindless robots who automatically spew fanboy poison out of their mouths.

You know where the real gamers are, they are playing games, and having fun.

most of the folks here arent playing games and they are not having fun, see the difference?

why is it so hard to belive microsoft will not be able to justify 100usd for live.

49usd was the standard price of a game last gen.. microsoft justified 59usd.

it was previously unthinkable to pay to go online.. microsoft justified it.

dlcs used to come as patches for free.. microsoft justified paying for those patches. now its come to the point where a game gets released content is chopped off and users are told to pay for it as dlc.

i dont see any reason why microsoft cant get its users to bend over for just 50usd more a year. when they already bend over as much as they currently do. Microsoft has had its users get screwed over in small steps.... this is just another one of them.

microsoft is everything that is wrong with this industry.

see a way they can/will/ever justify to me to pay 100 for xbox live no matter how they try to sweet talk it 100 for xbox live is and i REPEAT BS TALK. Microsoft can wave bye bye to me as i will not support daylight robbery from ANY game company.

Is if every game had dedicated servers and every server there was a guarantee for no lag at all. Yeah, but thats never gonna happen. I would laugh if they actually crank the price up to $100 a year. Doing something like that in a bad economy is just stupid.

Starting to think MS paid Pachter to get the idea out to bounce around.

As soon as enough people agree to it - BAM! There it is!

Pachter is fine, you people I swear, he takes a stab at what he sees coming, we do it here all the time, yes he gets paid, but he also does tons of financial things as well, it seems the hate for him comes in 2 forms depending on what system his guess may be about get over it, just read what he states, and like it or dont and move on about your life

$100 for live and unlimited 1080p movie/tv streaming? Where do I sign? Throw in the zune pass and I'll pay $200. I get to stream this to my pc and zune hd too? Nice. Cell Phone? eventually. Awesome.

netflix $120/year no 1080p streaming 1 disc at a time $132/year for blu-ray disc option

zune pass $180/year

This essentially makes xbox live free depending on the content available to stream, so I doubt it will happen or at least they would never do it for $100/year. Maybe $200/year if they had a library as big as itunes or $300/year with zune pass.

a bit pricey but about 8 bucks a month is not too bad... especially with all the perks of being a gold member and endless fun.

i canceled my cable in my home, because all i do is watch netflix stuff. awesome.

That price tag will burn a hole through anyone's wallet.

I hear a lot about XBox Live being $50/yr. That's fair because it's the listed retail price. However, don't most people get it for $40/yr? Adding to that, don't most get an additional month (for a total of 13 months) for $40?

Granted, if the XBox 360 lives a 10-year life-span like the PS2 has been so far, then it's an extra $350+ for the 360 over its life-span, but still... is anyone really shelling out $50/yr anymore? That would be an extra $500 over the life-span of the 360 if it lasts 10 years, but I really think people can shop around and find a cheaper rate for the service.

On the NetFlix side of things, people talk about the $8.99/mo as if it is only for video streaming. That rate also gets you one physical disc at a time. With the fast turnaround times, I believe you could pull off about 10 physical disc movies per month. Keep in mind that video streaming doesn't get you all of the new releases you want to watch. So, the physical disc is still a very cheap way to get all of the new releases you want to watch.

So, I don't really see people dropping their NetFlix service unless they're willing to pay for new releases, or does the Zune Marketplace include popular new releases in the annual fee?

In my case, I already have the 3-at-a-time service through NetFlix. I've got a big household and 1 or 2 discs at a time doesn't cut it... in fact, I've been planning on adding another disc. The streaming is great, but the selection is limited. Once you've seen everything you want to see, you wait from month to month hoping something new and worthwhile shows up. Also, I bought the Roku box when it first came out. I also have a TiVoHD, which also streams NetFlix and Amazon movies. The Roku box also streams Amazon movies, I think. Once I get the disc to stream NetFlix through the PS3, I'm going to be dealing with information overload. It's great that they're doing this, but I don't need three different devices to stream the same content.

One thing I have been considering is switching from the single-account 3-disc-at-a-time service to a 3-disc-at-a-time account and a 1 disc-at-a-time account. The reason is, although you can divide your physical disc queue into different logins, you cannot divide your streaming movies into different queues. Having two accounts would make this possible and I can associate the two accounts with two different streaming devices.

Anyway, I like the way the future is headed... I just hope someone can break down these walled gardens so that if I decide to buy a streaming movie from Amazon's store, I should be able to transfer my ownership of that movie to PSN's movie store... or vice versa. I shouldn't have to repurchase all of my movies just because I choose to change providers. This is also why I buy mp3s and not device-specific DRM-locked songs.

There is no way to justify it.