Xbox Live PC free and console gamers are not happy

[Landguy]

mornelithe said:

Landguy said:

I would bet that xbox live will drop in price over the next year.  It will get to $19 a year for a while and then $0 by 2017-2018.

If they really want Win10 to dominate, XBL will need to be $0 for the XB1/360...

Win 10 will very likely dominate regardless of XBL or not. heh.

Win10 will dominate because it is a free upgrade, and it is much easier to use than Win8.  I gueass I really meant is that Win10 will dominate gaming(VS. consoles or Steam OS) if M$ can reel in the 360/XB1 users by making XBL free for all.  Many console gamers will want to play with their friends and such.  I would guess that M$ will begin to use its leverage to get most of the games to be released equally through XBL via Win10 as they are with Steam.  Everyone acts like Steam is offering them something.  It is not Steam, but the game developers that determine the pricing.  So, those same developers can offer the same deal to M$.  In the end, M$ can offer developers a higher % of the sales price due to their deep pockets and a need to create value in the early years of XBL for Windows.

We shall see though...