Should games still be played on exclusive hardware?

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Jazz2K said:

ninetailschris said:

Jazz2K said:

ninetailschris said:
Money
Drops mic and leaves/

Lol you think they make a lot of money through hardware? Ask MS if they prefer 70million Live subscribers of 70 millions 360s sold? One cost them an arm and leg while the other gets them almost a bilion a year... money would be a good reason to drop hardware imo.

One: you said on channel so why would Xbox make all money from subscribe.

two: money is in the controllers and stuff like kinect.

You basically telling someone is make less money for someone else to make more.

I also said that is one company wants to create controllers nothing would prevent them from doing so.

70m 360s
70m PS3s
90m Wiis

230m players  would be the userbase for any company that wats to sell games and/or peripherals. Plus subscription. A console like the PS3 that sold 500+ had a slow start and they lost money on every consoles sold. Now they wouldn't lose any money on consoles, instead they would rank in money from subscribers since that would be the only way they could play. 50$/year would take 10 years for a gamer to pay the equivalent of a 500$ console at launch. But that 50$ would directly go to Sony instead of them losing money for every console sold.

To be fair, those numbers are probably not cumulative. Many consumer own more than one system.

It's a beautiful dream -- and it would end so many of these pointless and obnoxious console wars -- but it won't happen anytime soon.

But you gotta remove a subscription fee from the equation. That's just a non-starter.