So Microsoft made a billion dollars on XBL marketplace?

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seece said:

Fumanchu said:
If it really were a majority of the 17 million LIVE subscribers paying $50 a year - then that's >8.5 x $50 = $425million + X years...seeing as though the service has been available for 6 years it should have done well over the quoted billion dollars.

Majority can't be right.

 

XBL subscriptions will have made well over a billion dollars, so yes he is right. The way he worded his sentance leads me to believe they have made a billion on content download.

 

"consumers have spent more than $1 billion on Xbox Live"

 

but that sentence does not denounce that the billion does not include subscriptions.

 

OT: i dont find it all that surprising, if it includes subscriptions to xbox live. but if that billion is stand alone cash earned from live users buying stuff then that is something to applaude.