Would The Xbox Brand Be More Successful Without The Live Fee..

[thranx]

Michael-5 said:

thranx said:
with out the fee i do not think the original xbox would have had the online capabilities it had and there for would not have been as big of a hit and the online capabilities of this gen would also be less robust as they would not ahve made all of the progress in the previous gen again hurting an advantage that they had at the begining of the gen over their competitors.

The original X-Box had free online...

Yes I think the X-Box brand would be more successful with a much smaller fee. Without a fee I'm not sure. Part of that fee is to help develop arcade games and to improve the network. However the bulk of it is profit.

With a smaller the fee, MS would be less profitable, but since most of the bigger games on the 360 focus on polished well made online multiplayer (Call of Duty, Halo, Gears of War, even Forza), it would help if they cut the fee.

Are you sure it didn't? I could of swore that it had free and gold like now. I wasn't 100% sure though and could not find any info on it. I'll take your word though as i do not remember.