You dont actually need to pay for XBL, I dont understand why people keep making that mistake, though I suppose it is cheap: buy gold for 1 month, and never update it = silver account which still allows you gameplay online just no additional XBL features.
But! I am not saying microsoft is any better. All major companies need to be competitive and with law the way it is today everything needs to worded like that otherwise lawsuits can ensue
I mean just because a sony lawyer saw it, pointed it out to their PR guy and went YOU COULD SAY THIS!, the same could be said about half a dozen sony products and philosphies.
I believe Sony and Microsoft are almost exactly the same when it comes to next gen console warfare. Neither should be looked at and considered: right.
And Microsoft is not on trial for windows here
just their console policies if you want to fight microsoft vs apple go ahead. But the Windows8 screen doesnt look like XBL nice try though