So Microsoft made a billion dollars on XBL marketplace?

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Ronster316 on 07 January 2009

With over 300 arcade games to choose from and the awesome games that came out in summer 2008 its no suprise that XBL and XBLA in general are money making machines.

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JaggedSac on 07 January 2009

shio said:
unbelievable that people are still being tricked to pay for Xbox Live

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jedson328 on 07 January 2009

Sorry I am late to the party and didn't read though the 5 pages of comments, but while it was stated that XBL gross intake was more than 1 billion, it is suggested that MS probably only sees half that in net income. Everything from taxes, hosting services, power and cooling for servers, internet bandwidth, music/movie/game royalties and developer payouts is deducted from that 1 billion. So while 1 billion is an impressive number, the final result isn't quite that impressive. The OP says there was no spin, well you're wrong.

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JaggedSac on 07 January 2009

jedson328 said:
Sorry I am late to the party and didn't read though the 5 pages of comments, but while it was stated that XBL gross intake was more than 1 billion, it is suggested that MS probably only sees half that in net income. Everything from taxes, hosting services, power and cooling for servers, internet bandwidth, music/movie/game royalties and developer payouts is deducted from that 1 billion. So while 1 billion is an impressive number, the final result isn't quite that impressive. The OP says there was no spin, well you're wrong.

Yeah, imagine if they didn't have subscription fees and such to offset these costs.