spaceguy said:
bannedagain said:
Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter has predicted that Microsoft's next generation console will follow the smartphone business model. The console itself will be cheap, but users will have to purchase a subscription.
"I’m pretty confident that in the US Microsoft is going to partner with a cable TV provider, so I expect that the console will be priced like a smart phone," said Pachter. "I expect you’ll be paying $99 for the console with a cable TV subscription."
He continued by making another bold prediction that the console will be a Smart TV and will use SmartGlass day one.
"Console will have to be multiple purpose devices, though. The Xbox 720, this is my prediction, is going to be your television as well. You’ll be able to tune into television through it. You wont need a 'smart TV' when you’ve got an Xbox 720, it will be your television and your internet. It’s going to be open architecture and I think it’s real trick will be that one Xbox will be able to display television to as many screens as you have in your possession."
http://www.vgchartz.com/article/250254/pachter-next-xbox-to-be-subscription-based/
----I give this a -2 because I think pachter is a idiot and is usually wrong. I would rate it worse but I'm not ruling this out. ----- |
0 because i'm not sure what way this is going to go. I would actually give it a higher score if it wasn't pachter predicting. lol
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See i get the idea of it, but why does michael act like this is a microsoft exclusive idea? This isn't even a hard business model, both Nintendo and Sony could easily do it if they wanted to(talking about the subscription)
