What they are doing with this business model interests me a lot less than what they could be testing it for. I could see MS using this as a springboard for selling $199 launch consoles of the next Xbox with a 2 year service agreement and just fucking Sony up the ass on launch day with early adopters, most of whom probably have XBL anyway. Once the two years are up and most people are addicted to online games or the various TV content, they will just opt to keep paying anyway.
Like it or not, online gaming on PSN is generally a second rate experience. Most people associate gaming online with consoles with XBL. This will leave Sony scrambling to come up with their own pay service so they can implement a similar deal, or be stuck holding their junk again this generation with a console "$200 more expensive" than their competitors.
As much as I kind of enjoy Angry Birds sometimes, part of me (around 99%) wishes that fucking company would go belly up so I don't have to read about this shit anymore. I remember when EA bought Popcap and the CEO came out and said that Rovio would sell for at least twice that; like anybody fucking asked him.
You forgot to mention that Molyneux also stated the new Fable game will cure your Mom's cancer and spit $50 bills out of the Xbox's disc drive every 3 minutes.
It's cool to see that gaming can bring out such passion in people that they can put their own dollars behind something they really have faith in. You don't see this kind of thing anywhere; not even in the film industry.
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