| DirtyP2002 said: Well I think Xbox Live Gold is truly awesome and a very big cash cow. There are like 13 million gold subscribers. Everyone ins paying $50 a year (even more since it is 60€ in Europe, thats like 80USD. Other than that, not everybody has a 12 months subscription, there are some 3 months subscriptions which are more expensive for a year) so 13 million * 50 USD = 650 million USD For MS (there is no developer or publisher that want a piece of the cake, just MS and the retailer if it is bought @ retail) For 650 million USD you can buy 3,266,331 Xbox 360 Arcade.
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And that is just for one year. Do you think the Xbox 360 would move like 2,6 million units (250 USD Elite) more every year if live were free? i don't think so.did you forget software? i buy about 15-20 games a every year which is like $1000. that's $1000 that is now directed at sony instead of the 360 because i refused to pay $50 for live. now neither of us can really be 100% about how things would have played out if live was free but i feel pretty confindent that MS has lost more then a handful of customers. so maybe, just maybe, it hasn't worked out as much in their favor as you think.
