I really don’t see what the problem is apart from a load of old women bitch about things! You get Xbox live for $50 for the first year which has a free game and the microphone add-on (which would cost you more then the live kit in the first place). Plus you get a really fast service on which can only be described as the best gaming servers I have every seen with the highest bandwidth of any gaming service in the world! All for $50 not bad if you ask me. No more crappy 56k’ers lagging games out cuss they can’t even log on
thank god. And if you have not got BB sod off and play your little Gamecube online and live with the lag, I on the other hand will be playing on Xbox live with ping times of less then 50 (almost as good as LAN play) And having real fun.
At the end of the day you don’t play any thing for the PS2 and Gamecube services cuss they don’t have one! It is down to the developers and publishers to make there own server clusters which cost a lot of money and pay for the large amounts of bandwidth the 10,000 plus gamers need. Most 3rd party servers never run as fast as company’s like Microsoft can pay for. I personally think its Sony and Nintendo ripping people off selling a product that’s not up to the job 56k modems are just not up to the job any more. Could you imagine playing a MMPORPG like Asheron's Call on a 56k! No need to I have it was almost unplayable in fact it was the sole reason I got BB.
Oh and one last thing Sega need the money it gets from PSO.