User blog comment:Commdor/IGN's ME3 Review-in-Progress/@comment-737801-20120225050822/@comment-919588-20120229153558

Responding to the two posts above this one in order:

Yeah, if the 360 had a Blu-Ray player and free online, the PS3 would most likely die in less than a day. Its the main reason why PS3 got so much steam for its train. Free online play with premium content (such a DLC and what I'd like to call thanks to a certain Cynical Brit, "Freemium"), this marketing model works so well for video games. Take League of Legends for instance, you have two options to unlocking champions. You can play the game or you can buy Riot Points to unlock the champion in question.

Video game consoles are like PCs. They have graphics cards, processors, RAM, motherboards, and other parts to a computer. But where PCs and consoles make the distinction for video game playing, you can always easily replace the parts for a PC instead of shipping it out to the manufactuer and pay them for much more for repairs. Video games (technically) began on PC and they will most likely die on PC.