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Originally posted by GaseousSnake
M$ just threw away $2 billion dollars for nothing.
M$ has severly limited its userbase of online gamers.
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Yeah, they may have limited their user base at the moment, but on the other hand, there is already a ton of people with broadband that can't wait for this thing.
Had microsoft decided to go with letting modem users log on XBL it would be a lag-fest that you couldn't play certain types of games on. Fighting games would suck, sports games would lose their flavor. Then you have tons of people shouting about how the XBL service is a load of crap and all of the sudden MS loses all of their online (and system) support.
By making it broadband, which chances are pretty much everyone will have eventually as prices are dropping and it is becoming more widely available, they have now ensured virtually lag free games to anyone who has an online interest. For the people who can get on XBL, its gonna be all good. Of course this is just microsoft thinking in the long term again, which shows that money isn't an issue, just success.