Long story short: Got into a lengthy discussion Saturday night with a group of friends about the pros and cons of each console and why one is better than another. Every point was debatable (which controller is better, which has better games, etc.) until someone brought up the online voice chat subject.

As far as I know, with xbox live, you get first year free when you purchase the xbox headset and the second year is $50 for a service/subscription fee. One of the people I was talking to said that PS2 has online voice chat also,.. in fact an entire online voice chat community service for completely FREE. FREE? How can that be? He pays nothing to use this and he can use any headset/microphone he wants. I was dumbfounded when he told me this.

I have looked on the web and can't seem to find much info on either one. Can someone please confirm or correct me on this based on personal experience/knowledge? I need answers.