Then here's the way I'll look at it... you'll be waiting a long time to get XBL Gold. Seeing how the number of XBL users are like 2 or 3 times the number of PSN users... and seeing how MS is making so much money off of Gold... Yea, it's not going to be going down in price anytime soon (unless you can find a good deal on a 12+1 month XBL card).
You get what you pay for, might not be right, or might not agree with it, but it works. And I'll take XBL over PSN or the Wii's online anyday of the week (seeing how I play XBL every day, where the Wii I haven't touched in months, or the PS3 where I play maybe once every few weeks.