Microsoft will make BILLIONS from Xbox Live.

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DirtyP2002 said:

reverie said:

The sale of a 1 year Gold membership can be compared to the sale of one first party game. Nothing more or less. What I mean by this is that those Live sales are nothing different to Microsoft than the sales of Gears, Halo 3 or their other big sellers. They all have
to contribute towards reducing the losses.

 

 no.

 

1. Xbox Live has no game developer, publisher, retailer or something. Every single cent is for MS only.

Huh, I didn't know XBL built, maintained and updated itself all without the aid of programmers, product managers, and other overhead-intensive employees. I guess the rumors are true: Bill keeps a living organism chained deep within the bowels of Redmond, kept alive via some ill-understood form of osmosis that transfers the collective emotional angst of Xbox fanboys the world over into its gaping mind-maw. If only Bill could find another one to breed this one with he couldfire all the people behind Halo, Gears of War, etc. and keep all the money for himself.