Re:What if you don't want Live? (Score 1)

My Question about Live is this: You pay something like $70 a year for a subscription? Is that right? Thats $6 a month. But that just gets you in the door! If you want to download anything you have to purchase more points?

My wife just happened to be in Costco and they had 1 360 left and she bought it for me. No waiting lists, no standing in line for hours... I plugged it into my 52" HDTV and my surround sound and WOW!!!! It is great. COD2 and PGR came with it and both are incredible. To answer the first guys comments, I have no Live account, haven't bought any points and the two games that came with it work wonderfully.

My achievements are tracked, I can download support for my exisiting XBOX games as they become available... So a big company created a way to sneak $6 - $20 away from you... are you suprised? The phone, cellular, cable, and electric companies have been doing it for years.

LIVE is NOT required to have a 360!

Oh yea, I put in Dead or Alive 3 from the original Xbox and WOW! It is really improved by the HD graphics capability!!! Only problem I have right now is only 5 of my 20 original games are currently supported. The only real disapointment is that none of my StarWars games from the original work on the 360 and Tetris doesn't work either.

MS - You need to kick start the compatibility program in the pants. At least all of the Platinum series games should be supported!!! IMHO