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zzamaro on 02 November 2010

In short:

"We are Micro$oft and we are greedier than Boby Kottick, so we are going to keep on making excuses for making more money."

Lol, can Micro$oft be more greedy?



Sorry for bad English.

 

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geddesmond2 on 02 November 2010

I've no problems with people wanting to spend there money on Xbox live but justifying the 10 euro price hike for a 30 day Map pack exclusivity is a joke. What about the gamers who don't play COD or watch ESPN??

 

25 milllion people a year multiplied by an average of  40 bucks= 1 billion a year. Really 1 billion a year is not enough to run everything and make a healthy profit.



cory.ok on 02 November 2010
ROBOTECHHEAVEN said:

espn wont be free on ps3 if it ever comes to the system because sony will make it for psn members only. i think sony will move more towards the way xbl is structured with its psn service. i will be getting xbl gold very soon and i am very content to pay the price for the great service i am getting in return.


sony has recently gone into partnership with google to deliver all hardware for googletv.  if the ps3 has all necessary hardware to run googletv (which is very likely) all they would need to do was release a patch to put android onto ps3's and googletv would be reality for the ps3

we already know that sony is working with android for their phones, tvs, and standalone boxes, perhaps they are working with android for their ps3s?  it would put googles googletv on 41 million more devices, pushing googletv pretty darn far



cory.ok on 02 November 2010
geddesmond2 said:

I've no problems with people wanting to spend there money on Xbox live but justifying the 10 euro price hike for a 30 day Map pack exclusivity is a joke. What about the gamers who don't play COD or watch ESPN??

 

25 milllion people a year multiplied by an average of  40 bucks= 1 billion a year. Really 1 billion a year is not enough to run everything and make a healthy profit.


everyone else who doesnt use the new features but still pays for live keeps the price down for the people who do use them.  im sure they say thanks for your money :)



enrageorange on 02 November 2010

bleh, always been an xbox fanboy, but I can't say I'm pleased. I only pay for xbox live to play games online with my friends, and lately I have been playing quite rarely. Sure $5 a month isn't much , but xbox should really come up with another suscription plan for those who only plan on using xbox live to play multiplayer, but then again if people are buying this, they have no insentive to. Sadly I can't take advantage of the free online multiplayer on my playstation since none of my friends have ps3s and honestly playing online with strangers for teammates usually sucks regardless of what system you play.



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Lyrikalstylez on 02 November 2010

So basicly even if we dont want that dlc,  all of us still have to pay........bullshit

 



evolution_1ne on 02 November 2010
disolitude said:

At this point I think MS need to start blaming piracy like Sony.

GT delayed, blame piracy!!

they did???

remove other os, blame piracy!!

because they conviently waited until someone hacked the console using otheros to remove the feature, "conspiracy' O_o

remove usb functionality of non licensed device, blame piracy!!

continues using non licensed usb device...... yeah sucks dude totally sucks

MS could easily say that the price is higher due to... fighting piracy!! And people would eat it up

no only retards would take that bait.

try harder bro



evolution_1ne on 02 November 2010
JOKA_ said:

So you are paying more money...so that you can have the opportunity to pay for more content?


subscribing........ to subcriptions, i lol'd



yo_john117 on 02 November 2010
JOKA_ said:

So you are paying more money...so that you can have the opportunity to pay for more content?

But ESPN is free....



Capulous on 02 November 2010
cory.ok said:
ROBOTECHHEAVEN said:

espn wont be free on ps3 if it ever comes to the system because sony will make it for psn members only. i think sony will move more towards the way xbl is structured with its psn service. i will be getting xbl gold very soon and i am very content to pay the price for the great service i am getting in return.


sony has recently gone into partnership with google to deliver all hardware for googletv.  if the ps3 has all necessary hardware to run googletv (which is very likely) all they would need to do was release a patch to put android onto ps3's and googletv would be reality for the ps3

we already know that sony is working with android for their phones, tvs, and standalone boxes, perhaps they are working with android for their ps3s?  it would put googles googletv on 41 million more devices, pushing googletv pretty darn far


Sony just removed Linux from the PS3; I'm not sure they are going to put another OS on their systems. Besides that, I can't see any way that ESPN will get on without any cost. ESPN is a huge money maker for Disney, there is no way I can see them offering it's programming for free. They do not need the publicity nor are they desperate to extend their coverage.