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ironmanDX on 11 February 2013
tonymarraffa said:
This site is undertracked on alot of things here.


Mmm, not really. They do well with what they have. A little bit undertracked on current consoles and a fair sized undertack on past ones and we get it for free? Can we really complain?



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riderz13371 on 11 February 2013
JayWood2010 said:
What disturbs me is this thread only has 19 comments. If this was sony or nintendo it would have already gotten like 50 comments by now. I guess someone needs to start an argument in here to get this thing rolling. So who want to argue?? :P lol

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riderz13371 on 11 February 2013
ironmanDX said:
mrstickball said:
46M Live Users * 57% Entertainment App Usage = 26.2M gold users.


I'd say that the 46 million are all gold. It's just over half the consoles sold according to M$ numbers. %57 of gold users just use the apps or it's just an increase over another period of time like last year. If 46 million people only conected the 360 to the internet not even trying the free gold trial or silver, that's just over half who even attempted internet connection with the 360. Not a chance. Live was and still is a selling point, surely they would atleast try it.

LOL 46m are all gold? Woah there buddy hold your horses. Let me link you to something interesting

http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-entertainment-brief/60687-xbox-live-users-topple-40-million

"Ballmer said that of those 66 million Xbox 360 consoles, there are 40 million users who have signed up for an online Xbox Live account."

 



Jaywood2010 on 11 February 2013
bananaking21 said:
JayWood2010 said:
bananaking21 said:
JayWood2010 said:

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.  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.

you got me wrong on the slaughtering thing, i didnt mean PS+ slaughtering xbox live. that would be ludacris to even claim. but i ment how the media is reacting now to ps+/xbox live. i was talking about the media, not sales numbers lol

and as i said i think MS will do it. there might be a market for it. but comparing it to cell phones isnt the best comparision. for example when sony released the ps3 for 500/600$ people went crazy over how expensive it was, but then they would gladly go buy an iphone for 700 or 800 bucks. even now people are complaining about how the vita is expensive for 250 bucks but a cellphone for triple the price is normal. same goes for the WiiU. i understand subscibtions for cellphones are extremely expensive in USA in particuler, but cellphones are considered a nessity, gaming isnt. everybody should own a cell phone and use it, its a must for human interaction these days. gaming isnt, so there is a big initiative to buy a cellphone as compared to a game console

but ill say one thing that people here tend to overlook, even though alot of people claim that MS arent bringing anything new to the gaming indusrty by not bringing any new IPs and all that stuff (no need to get into that lol) but they do bring something new and "innovate" in how they sell their console. heck its obvious even sony are starting to learn and their stratgy of selling consoles this year was very much taken out of MS's book. for example the limited edition bundles or instead of cutting the price add two games and 3 months of PSN/xbox live with the console. let third parties push the console for the core market insead of competing with them. all the deals with ubisoft for AC3 bundles and EA for battlefield and fifa bundles are all things sony didnt do until MS did it before them.  my point is, if there is any company that is going to find a new way to sell its console, its probably gonna be MS. they know the US market better than sony and nintendo and they know how to reach that market better. so a subscribition based model for nextbox isnt unlikely, and it being successful isnt unlikely either.

sorry for the very long post btw


Nah i like long posts.  Much better than short ones that really doesnt push a conersation at all lol

I bolded what i agreed with and underlined what i didnt agree with.  I completely agree with phones are now a necessity and games are not but I also dont see people paying $600 for a phone.  now i dont know the numbers but my guess would be that 90% of all phones are sold under a plan.  Which means you are paying anywhere from 0.99c to $300 up front.  I've never seen a phone more than $300 for a phone plan up front and even that is rare.  I think most iphones are around $100(somebody will correct me if i'm wrong).  But really the only reason you buy an unlocked phone is if you break your phone or some other miscellaneuos reason.

i honestly dont know exactly how people prefer to buy phones in the US and whats the most popular method since i dont live there, so i judge by comparing the phones price unlocked. but also when paying for a phone through monthly payments you buy the plan too. now with xbox you will be getting xbox live, it will come down to people seeing if xbox live is worth 100$ a year for about 5 years (just an estimate) its certainly tricky. and another thing in the usa if plans are the way people have bought phones then they are used to that, thats just how they get phones, they pick the phone. pay a small price upfront then pay for the carrier for the monthly service, but with consoles it has never been that way. you buy the console and thats it, the only thing remaining to pay for the games. i think people will have a harder time transitioning to that subscribtion model where they ultimatly pay more.

 

btw i would like to mention since u mentioned u pay 75$ bucks on your cellphone service that i pay just 6 bucks a month for practically unlimited calls and i get 3G with that too. it doesnt include the phone though i bought it by my self. but still 6 bucks a MONTH !


Oh so you guys dont have subcription plans like we do in the U.S.?  Yeah we dont really buy unlocked phones here very often.  We paqy through our plans. It'll pay for the hardware, data, minutes, etc.  

And wtf, only  $6?  It use to be cheaper hre until it became a requirement to have data on your plan from AT&T.  I dont know about verizon, they may do it a little different.




       

Jaywood2010 on 11 February 2013
riderz13371 said:
JayWood2010 said:
What disturbs me is this thread only has 19 comments. If this was sony or nintendo it would have already gotten like 50 comments by now. I guess someone needs to start an argument in here to get this thing rolling. So who want to argue?? :P lol

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tonymarraffa on 11 February 2013
JayWood2010 said:
What disturbs me is this thread only has 19 comments. If this was sony or nintendo it would have already gotten like 50 comments by now. I guess someone needs to start an argument in here to get this thing rolling. So who want to argue?? :P lol


LOL well it's not a negitive thread about Microsoft so they see no reason to be here. I think all the trolls should be permabanned!!!! Then we'd just have real videogame fans here.



think-man on 11 February 2013

Shipped?

 

I usually ignore Arghs threads.



 

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riderz13371 on 11 February 2013

+57% entertainment app usage doesn't mean 57% of the 46m users use apps it just means that the amount of usage of the apps has increased. Example last year only 1 hour of netflix was used whereas this year 1.57 hours of netflix was used by users. 57% increase. So to the guy who said there are 26m Gold members, that my friend is inaccurate.

I may be wrong, Microsoft likes to twist their words (As does every other company).



riderz13371 on 11 February 2013
think-man said:

Shipped?

 

I usually ignore Arghs threads.

Of course it's shipped.



tonymarraffa on 11 February 2013
ironmanDX said:
tonymarraffa said:
This site is undertracked on alot of things here.


Mmm, not really. They do well with what they have. A little bit undertracked on current consoles and a fair sized undertack on past ones and we get it for free? Can we really complain?


I guess you're right. I just wish this site also tracked digital sales too. Oh well.