DirtyP2002 said:
If they can keep this up, they will make the first billion in 57 years.
Well MS stated they made one billion on the marketplace since Xbox360-release.
38 months = 1140 days = 1 billion USD
1 day = 877,192 USD.
1 week = 6,140,350 USD
And of course there are fees to pay, which will be like $500,000,000 a year. (17 million users - I assumed 10 million gold) I doubt Sony will make this with advertising. Well and there is advertising on XBL as well... with a greater Userbase, so more money for MS again.
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Your whole post, aside from the math is pure speculation.
First off, you act as if the rate of money earned is going to be flat. That it's going to take them 20 days to make a million dollars for all eternity. That is wrong. And you act as if MS started out in the first 7 days of XBL and made 6 million dollars. The fact is, that as more people buy PS3s, and dl and log into home, the amt made will increase. And also, he never said since XBOX 360 they made 1 billion, what was said was "The Redmond, Wash., company said consumers have spent more than $1 billion on Xbox Live". So, yeah, who knows how they arrived at the numbers, and if you throw in XBL numbers from the original XBOX, the achievement is still big, but a tad more in perspective. On top of that, you're talking about the whole of XBL (memberships + XBLM (XBLA + Movies, Music, TV shows, gaming content, etc), but only HOME. You need to compare the $ that the PS Store + Video store make also, in order to make a fair comparison. And also, the membership fees, are most likely included in the 'consumers have spent more than 1 billion on live' comment. But since it doesn't say either way, neither of us have a point.
@ infamy
If you get a PSP and want to go to the store, you have to make a PSN account, and of course there are people with multiple PSN accounts. Just like there are multiple people with XBL accounts. I have 3 of each on the PS3 and XBOX 360. But that's anecdotal, so doesn't mean too much.
