Slimebeast on 27 June 2012
I hope it fails.
Subscription model can be a great way to increase revenue and essentially increase cost and quality of the hardware, which is a good thing since I would like consoles to be as powerful as possible. The average selling price of smartphones would be much lower if it wasn't for the subscription and operator subsidies.
The principle is that if the costs are spread out over time, and stealthily baked within a subscription, the consumer will pay much more for a product than for an up front one time price.
But I think this initative from MS comes too late, now that next gen hardware specs are already set, so we as gamers wouldn't benefit from this experience even if it was successful.
