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Jaywood2010 on 11 February 2013
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bananaking21 said:
JayWood2010 said:
bananaking21 said:
JayWood2010 said:
MonstaMack said:
46 million people paying for XBox Live?
Sounds like the ultimate slap in the face for anyone who wishes XBL will be free.

At this rate it never will be.


I personally believe they will be using XBL as how you pay for the NeXbox like a cellphone subscription plan with added services like DVR


they already do that with the 360


Yea, it was adopted late though.  I believe this will be right out of the gate, 99$ or even less up front and then pay for it yearly or monthly.  That will be huuuuuge.  I believe XBL will go up in price to $99 a year with a more media hub centric.  

P.S. X360 doesnt have DVR like features just yet.  Just a few channels.  I expect that to increase a lot

i think it would be a mistake to make xbox live 99$ a year. have you seen the recent reations of the media lately towards ps+ and xbox live? they basically been slaughtering xbox live and suddenly calling it a rip off, did you read the article about how "ps+ humiliates the indusrty" ? the media backslash for the increase in price would explode, 99$ is A LOT! you also have to consider (and lets be honest here) that most of those people who pay for live do so just to play online. if people see that the price doubled then that might putt them off. 

MS have been experimenting with the subscibtion based model though and i wouldnt be surprised to see if they do it with the next xbox, it might actually work too. but they have to play their cards right

I'm just saying that is my prediction. And slaughtering?  No, not even close.  26m users are likely to be paying for XBL right now.  NOw last i had heard PS+ is around 3m.  Now while that was a while ago i dont expect it to be too much more than that now.  

But yes  $99 does seem like a lot but what do you think people prefer doing, paying $600 for a console or paying $99 a year? Also this may even be a threat to DVR cable companies.  My cable bill for example is $200 a month which comes out to being $2400 a year.  so $99 a year compared to $2400 a year is pocket change and i would be saving $2300.  Now I dont actually expect to get rid of cable just yet becuase i doubt that it will be that big of a threat to them just yet.  But in time if they get all the channels i want which is bacically AMC, HBO, ESPN, and a few other channels I'm set to go.  

Lastly do you realize that a lot of cell phones are around $1000+ in a lifetime?  Whoah right?  I pay $75 a month for my cell phone which is actually cheaper than some plans.  I payed $200 up front and i have to pay for the phone for a two year contract right?  what does that come out to?  $2000. That is paying for the cell and the data, minutes with it.  Now when you take a subscription model it appears better than what it is but to people that $99 will look much better than $600 up front.  $100 a year for a media hub, not bad.