Yeah, I thought about signing up for this, then realized I usually have my laptop next to me with Tweetdeck going while gaming. I also do not use Facebook, so this update is kinda meh for me.

Why do they keep dismissing Last.Fm like it's the least important feature to be included? As many things that could Tweet and update Facebook, they should show some love.

yeah! firmware update betas! wait...wtf?

anyway. are twatter and facebook only gonna be for gold members? if so, i will officially never buy another microsoft product.

@darkage

If your console is from a region that supports it and you're subscribed to a Gold account, the Xbox has no way of knowing where you are. I have a friend in Japan that piggybacked on my Netflix account for over a year until his system RROD for other reasons.

This is cute and all, but this is just one of the things they're adding to enhance the perceived value of a Gold account. If Silver had multiplayer, very few people would give a shit about stuff like this to actually pay for Gold, and MS knows it.

I never minded paying for Gold, but it bugged me when I got my buddy a used 360. He's had fun playing Fallout 3 and stuff, but he really didn't want to pay extra just so we could play some game together online, even if it was just occasionally playing some Arcade board game or something, since we could do the same thing for free ANYWHERE ELSE. And I was like, "Yeah, why should he?"

I don't own a PS3 but I'm hoping it starts doing REALLY well and adding more features like the cross-game chat, so just maybe (though unlikely) MS will reconsider the business model of Live.

I thought LastFm was part of this package, is that not coming now?