Original sentence: A niche fanbase exists, particularly as the online services for the console, Xbox Live, offers more to users than the PS2's non-centralized online system and the Nintendo GameCube's near total lack of online games
Edited sentence: A niche fanbase exists, particularly as the online services for the console, Xbox Live, offers more to users than the PS2's non-centralized online system and the Nintendo GameCube's near total lack of online games, albeit at a price to the Xbox owners in the form of subsciption fees