Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter expects Microsoft to raise the price of Xbox Live Gold membership from the current $50 to $100 per year in the next few years.

“You can’t hook a guy into Xbox Live Gold if he’s playing on a PC,” Pachter said in a GTTV discussion talking about how Microsoft has seemingly given up on the PC gamer market. “… that’s the other problem — you really want to hook every gamer who has a 360, you want them to buy all their games on 360, play everything multiplayer, pay you 50 bucks a year so that, in a couple years, it’s a 100 bucks a year.”

“And that’s going up, we all know that … it’s a profit deal,” he concluded.

http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2009/10/18/xbox-live-will-be-100-per-year-pachter-believes/

Feasible, or just Pachter being Pachter?

unlikely

no way, I always wait to find it on sale for $29 before I renew as it is.

I'd imagine that would be very controversial...

O it will.

When they offer the 2year Xbox Live Gold Plan/Cards

And the price of retail games will go up to $100 as well.

See, I can make stupid predictions based off of nothing but speculation too.

I think he lost his mind

Oh hell no

Maybe Pachter thinks they are going to do one of these sell the xbox for $50 and then raise the price of live.

i think they might go cheaper actually. not higher.