Comments on: Opinion: $100 Xbox Live could end the console war

By: cody

cody — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:52:02 +0000

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By: ...

... — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:52:30 +0000

xbots are bait and hook tools

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:01:42 +0000

Would be nice if they could go to $100 console and also open up an application store so that people could bring innovation to the xbox and xbox live platform.

would like to see things like this new voice client for gamers on the xbox platform. That would be sweet.

http://digg.com/pc_games/Ventrilo_Killer_Sneak_Preview_Video

By: SpunkMonkey

SpunkMonkey — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:46:13 +0000

Pachter a tard, I paid 20% less for this years subscription to live compared to last year. The trick is not to get automated renewal you’ll pay the full price. I got 13 months for $39.99 without even trying. Live is just the gateway drug, MS is making their real money on the DLC. Crap for your avatar (as much as I hate to admit it I got my favorite teams Football jersey) is the latest money grab. Worst case Live stays were it’s at, but I expect it to drop actually. After all people spend way more on DLC than they do on the service, so it’s to Microsofts advantage to get more people to sign up rather risk turning them away. As I said Pachter a tard, why does anyone still print his predictions?

By: pixie637

pixie637 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:55:09 +0000

I don’t think I will ever drop the Xbox, even if it does reach $100 a year. It has awesome features and their always adding new ones. To me $100 would still be worth it.

By: MaulYoda

MaulYoda — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:15:39 +0000

I think that if MS raises the price to $100, they’ll have a much harder time competing with PSN. I mean, I think XBL is the better service so I don’t completely mind paying the $50 per year but XBL isn’t so superior that a $100 yearly fee justifies it

By: Mister_G

Mister_G — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:42:59 +0000

It might go to $100, but in step increments. $10 here, $10 there.

Not sure why M$ would put the price up though, they’ve already got a money mountain!

By: P H X

P H X — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:16:38 +0000

Microosft haven’t increased the price of Live over here in the UK since it came out. As long as there is competition, the price be competitive (as the article states). As for the PS3 however, people don’t seem to realise that it’s not necessarily the features that entice people, but the games. I don’t care if the 360 has netflix, I only care that I’ll be able to play Gears of War 3 on it. The greatest indrance for me with taking the PS3 online is not having standard voice chat, I’m just too used to talking to people online. If sony started shipping (decent) headsets with the PS3, I’d be very happy

By: budakKipas

budakKipas — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:54:59 +0000

kapitalist

By: Guy

Guy — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:19:50 +0000

Obviously, Patcher is wrong. And your own article states exactly why it’s needless to discuss it.
Microsoft charged 50$ a year because it could. Because there was no competition. But now the PS3 is closing the gap slowly (there is still a gap however) and when competition arises you don’t RAISE prices but REDUCE them in order to stay competitive. That’s also business 101.

And if Microsoft cuts the 50$ per year entirely, it’s a death sentence again, but this time to Sony: The only reason people consider the PS3 more valuable in the long term is the 50$ for live gold. Without it, the PS3 doesn’t stand a chance unless Sony will seriously ramp up their online system to match the X360 feature-by-feature (instead of concentrating on garbage like HOME)

By: Skullleader007

Skullleader007 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:54:36 +0000

Well I do agree that if M$ ups the cost of xbox live that it will be shooting itself in the foot. But I personally don’t see them doing that because xbox live is the one thing that really separates them from Sony. The fact that you can find your friends and chat anytime while being in different games is a plus. Also making it mandatory that people do use broadband to play online is key because we all know you don’t want to be talking crap to someone and random teammate comes in the room who has grandma’s dial up connection. Yes there will be cheaters lagging on purpose because they suck so bad but that is the life of a cheater.

By: asd

asd — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:07:24 +0000

your wrong. why? 360 owners are stupid. not literally but for taking soo much crap and not caring. gi mag did a poll asking if you had to pay 150 to fix your rrod 360 would you refuse? virtually none said yes. ms could make live $30 a MONTH and the only thing that would stop 360 owners from paying is their parents