195w ago - At E3 Microsoft said that Xbox Live users would need to be Gold members (requiring an annual fee) to access Last.fm without paying for a Last.fm-specific subscription.
What Microsoft didn't mention, however, was that these limitations would extend to both Facebook and Twitter as well.
This news was buried in Microsoft's late night press release about the new Xbox 360 price adjustments. Here's what the press release says, to quote:
"Xbox LIVE Gold Membership will be required for Twitter and Facebook when they are available, and is required for Netflix. Games, media content and Netflix membership are sold separately; a hard drive is required for storage."
When Facebook and Twitter's Xbox Live extensions launch later this year, you'll need to be a paying subscriber to access the applications.
The press release doesn't get anymore specific than saying the social networking add-ons will arrive sometime "this fall," as Microsoft has said in the past.
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freakin microsoft for yah....
Microsoft is throwing money into this and that, to keep ahead of Sony... since they keep shelling out this cash to make your experience better, they ofc are passing these great add ons, to you people for a price =3... nothing new in the day to day world of marketing BS.
GET A PS3, use firefox to get to facebook. As for movies and stuff, I'm pretty sure there's some sort of streaming divx (don't know if it works) out there.