Microsoft Ends Xbox Live Service

No, Japan is just being xenophobic again and thinks they are gaijin consoles.

I can't reply to the anon. above because there is no reply comment, so I'll just use this instead and quote it so there's no confusion:

"No, Japan is just being xenophobic again and thinks they are gaijin consoles."

This has nothing to do with xenophobia, despite what people on 2ch may be like and other places, not all gamers in japan are idiotic racists just because they don't like the xbox 360. If anything it's probably due to the fact that the xbox was designed so poorly that every year or so it'd fry itself and would cause the owner to go out and buy a new system.. to say it's because of "xenophobia" is just showing that you may not have a proper grasp and may prove that you're more than a little biased for the xbox itself.

Right because the logic is:

Americans buying American products = Patriotism

Japanese buying Japanese products = Xenophobic

well the xbox does suck hard wang-doodle so I can see why Japan doesn't want to associate with it.

The 360 is a failure as a console. A game system that fails that often shouldn't even be allowed on the market.

oi....not ALL xenophobic racists are idiots....some....just plain don't like foreigners...

Idolmaster and shitton of shmups.

BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!! stupid ass xbox finally getting it's just rewards. i can't wait until they go bankru...that will never happen...perhaps they think their fans will overrun ps3 servers and make them shut down online too. sorry xbox, but sony has their shit together. 1 for sony 0 for xbox. ps, to anon who thinks japan is xenophobic, i doubt that. xbox was probably made in china, look at the extreme failure rates. they are just smart enough to buy a product that will work 2 weeks after they buy it.

The original Xbox Live... Not the current Xbox Live... Microsoft likely shut it down on the pretense that it had like 10 remaining subscribers..

@ Anonymous 05:08 06/02/2010

Patriotism doesn't have pantsu, loli, shota and futa though...

Gotta love how bias Artefact is though, not posting an article on something as pivotal as monster hunter frontier being confirmed for the xbox 360, along with FF14 confirmed to not be a ps3 exclusive. Now i don't consider myself a fanboy of either console specifically, they both lay a few golden egg games here and there but you could at least post the news a bit more honestly, microsoft ending original xbox live is nothing compared to some of the recent console news, it would be nice to not see your bias so blatantly obvious, by posting an article like this and expecting less than half to read it properly ending up with plenty of the comments thinking microsoft are ending 360 live, way to troll lol.

Well, I think XBox is a great console. Not pretty well on par with the others if it wasn't for the XBox Live.

And now, they are terminating what I concider the best in the market, the internet service?

I have always set the consoles like this.

XBox - Best in internet
PS3 - Grahpic, interactions and possibilities
Wii - Gameplay and party fun for the family

And now it's like, gone?

Yeah but past experience doesn't show that ps3 fanboys outweigh the xbox 360 fanboys on Sankaku either so you arguement for even posting the article in the first place has no justification.

Sony has their shit together? That's funny.

Xbox Live is far more functional than the PSN, and besides, PSN is going to start charging you for shit soon, idiots, so count your days.

The Xbox has a 3 year warranty because of the RRoD. If it doesn't happen in three years, it doesn't happen at all. They get your system back to you in a week, if not less.

Besides, tell me five good games for the PS3 that aren't for the Xbox too.

Anyway, they can't possibly mean worldwide, because Xbox Live is alive and well in the USA, because of all the MW2 and Halo retards. If they shut it down here, they lose millions of dollars almost instantly. It would be the stupidest economic decision of the century. Even more so with Bioshock 2 on its way.

By the way: Get an IQ, PS3 fanboys. Your system sucks too. Get over it. In fact, at the rate the Wii is improving, it might be the top system in the end.

Cheering for the fall of something that you have no affiliation with whatsoever is as stupid as laughing at someone else that got in a car wreck. It just makes you look like a selfish, insensitive asshole.

Or in this case, a large group of selfish, insensitive (and immature) assholes.

And no, I'm not an Xbox fanboy. Every controller I've bought from Microsoft has had something different wrong with it. All six of them. They suck. The thing is, the game developers don't suck, and they make it worth tolerating the sticky control stick.

Even if I'm playing on Veteran.

Some people got some problems with reading :] . Its about first xbox live service (xbox 1) not the 360 . Even the old live is more advanced than the psn :] .

@ TNinja:

"XBox - Best in internet
PS3 - Grahpic, interactions and possibilities
Wii - Gameplay and party fun for the family"

Although I always knew Wii sucked, now that you mention that, your right about the family fun thing. PS3 really does have better graphics and games, that's fact, but XBox being best in internet? I gotta disagree. XBOX Live costs money, which means it requires a credit card to join. XBOX Live may take up bandwidth, but most likely, it wont. And its got no censoring system built into it. PS3- free, and clean.