So why are people OK with ads on the 360/One dashboard?

[Mr Puggsly]

VanceIX said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Well actually, we dont have cable anymore and we didnt have it for the past 7 years cause of the ads... And we both know that Transit isn't even remotely the samething as owning a device and neither is a Soccer ticket. And yes, Ads do down grade the cable experience? Who the hell wants to wait 3-5 minutes of ads while watching a show, specially during suspense... Granted I don't own and xbox (and this type of a reason is exactly why) but I sure as hell wouldnt like ads at all on my ps3 or wiiU...

Apples and oranges.

TV ads interrupt your program and it can be nuisance watching the same 30 second ads over and over with the same stupid jokes. On Xbox you aren't waiting for ads to finish before you can play a game.

I honestly never hear people complain about the ads outside of the internet. To the contrary, everybody hates TV ads.

You keep mentioning TV ads, but the scenario is very different in gaming. With TV, you pay Comcast/TW/whoever to provide the cable, but you don't directly pay the channels like ABC/NBC/CBS/etc. Those channels only make money through ads, you only pay to have a company push the service to you.

With Xbox, Microsoft is a huge multibillion dollar company, that is already making a nice profit from Xbox Live sales and software sales. They don't need to give ads to make money, but they do anyway, even for paying customers.

Did you read the post I responded to?  He's saying sitting through 3-5 minutes of ads hurts the TV watching experience, that isn't the same as seeing some ads on the Xbox dashboard.

Its not like I love ads on the Xbox dashboard. I just don't care about them because I don't have to wait for them and they don't get in the way of what I want to do.

MS is a huge company, but not because of Xbox. Hence, those ads help Xbox's bottomline.