Paco said:
I didn't say anything about Nintendo charging for it, I just said to copy all the features.
List the features.
I have:
Friends lists. <---- System Administration and maintenance
Voice chat. <---- System Administration and maintenance + bandwidth
Messaging. <---- System Administration and maintenance
A system for downloading games and demos. <---- System Administration and maintenance.
A system for promoting arcade demos to full games. <---- System Administration and maintenance
Providing storage space to serve games and videos. <---- Reoccurring expense. Bandwidth. Pays for itself in the cost of games and videos, but not demos.
A system for downloading Videos <---- One time expense for development - per system licence fees though.
Netflix Support <---- Netflix will play for this.
A system for rating other players and reporting players abuse. <---- This is expensive to do right. Requires that humans examine reports and that audio logs are kept to be examined.
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The registration codes that come with Nintendo titles could buy a month of subscription time. Otherwise it would be available in other ways similar to how XBL Gold is sold today
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Am I missing any XBL features that should be cloned?