(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); While the PlayStation Network and Nintendo Wi-Fi are both free to use for online play, Microsoft has stuck with the not-always popular decision to charge for their online service, Xbox LIVE. And while people are content to pay their fifty dollars a year to make their account "Gold," one prediction about the future of the service sees a dark cloud on that horizon.

"You can't hook a guy into Xbox Live Gold if he's playing on a PC," explained Everyone's Favorite Analyst, Michael Pacther, to GameTrailers TV as he described Microsoft "ditching" the PC market. "... that's the other problem - you really want to hook every gamer who has a 360, you want them to buy all their games on 360, play everything multiplayer, pay you 50 bucks a year so that, in a couple years, it's a 100 bucks a year."

"And that's going up," he adds. "We all know that ... it's a profit deal."

$100 for a year's worth of Xbox LIVE? I can barely justify $50... would anyone stand for this?

I would....its less than 10$ a month....cheaper than being an alcoholic

I already posted this a week ago.
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