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Here's some potentially bad news for Xbox 360 console gamers - according to market analyst Michael Pachter, the price of an Xbox Live Gold subscription will shoot up to $100 per year, perhaps as early as 2011. What the hell?
"You can't hook into Xbox LIve Gold if he's playing on a PC," Pachter said on how Microsoft seemingly abandoned the PC as a gaming platform. "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 of years, it's a 100 bucks a year."
While the numbers might be up for debate, Pachter seems convinced that Gold subscription prices are definitely on the rise. But is he off his rocker?
Current Gold level subs run $50 per year, or half of where Pacther predicts pricing is headed towards. In return, gamers get access to online multiplayer gaming, the ability to stream Netflix movies to your console (provided you're also a Netflix subscriber), and a few other odds and ends. Minus a few proprietary features, it's all stuff you can do on the PC for free, so it would be a tough sell to up and double the price of a sub in a 24-month time span.
That's wonderful logic. To sell your product even more, you raise the price of the service!
first of all i dont know why but i love xbox360 more than ps3. also, i doubt they actually will raise the price. its just a scare to make people go buy cards now. and yeah, they did mess up when they made the "new xbox experience" i liked it better before.
+1 to what Sezna said, this guy has no relation to Microsoft and has made claims that had no basis before, M$ are rolling in dough already and they know that they wont be able to profit as much if they rose the prices, they're up against two consoles that offer free online experiences and they know this.
Lol I highly doubt they are going to raise the price of Live and if raised it'll only be about a 10-20 dollar increase. From a marketing point of view Microsoft I'm sure understands that increasing the price for Live would hurt them pretty hard but even if it were a $100 a year I would still pay thats still cheaper than paying for an mmo for a year. Personally I wouldn't switch to a PS3 mainly because it's not the same due to the community. I've been on Live for about 5-6 years and the people I've met are lot's of fun to play with and its nice just to hang out and have a chat with them. Overall If I do quit Live Im moving on to straight PC and with what I have on my PC it won't be needing any upgrades for a long time.
Lol I highly doubt they are going to raise the price of Live and if raised it'll only be about a 10-20 dollar increase. From a marketing point of view Microsoft I'm sure understands that increasing the price for Live would hurt them pretty hard but even if it were a $100 a year I would still pay thats still cheaper than paying for an mmo for a year. Personally I wouldn't switch to a PS3 mainly because it's not the same due to the community. I've been on Live for about 5-6 years and the people I've met are lot's of fun to play with and its nice just to hang out and have a chat with them. Overall If I do quit Live Im moving on to straight PC and with what I have on my PC it won't be needing any upgrades for a long time.
in my opinion the most they would do is just reduce payment options. like keep the 7 bucks a month and ditch the three month sub and increase the price of the yearly one.
Yes the PS3 is superior to the xbox on certain things but honestly our online runs way smoother than the PS3's. I have tried both and i think the PS3 is more oriented towards single player (apart from Resistance and Killzone 2 which both rock). It's mostly a matter of what your opinion is about that console. But this 100 dollars a year crap is gonna get on my nerves fast.
I'm pretty sure that Microsoft won't do this.
And for the people saying PS3 is better then the Xbox 360. The PS3 might be better for graphic, but the Xbox 360 is way better for online play and the games.
One good reason is people get pissed and buy a PS3 insted Espacaly since there Real cheap now
Not because of live it's because their 360 receives RRoD or they get scratches on their disk. If people get pissed for paying why do they pay in the first place. Can't fully understand what you're stating that people get pissed about. When it comes down to it xbox live's networking is better, who cares about paying a little more for something that's better? Some people that have been on xbox live for years don't even care if it get's free or not. I think more people would be pissed if it did become free now and not receive a refund for the time that everyone payed for. Imagine paying for something for a long period of time and new people can get it for free. Besides they need the money in order to keep their servers at it's best.
Atm, a PS3 difference in price pays for itself in 2 years assuming you have XBL that entire time.
If they raise the cost so it's payable in like 14/16months i'll deffinately concider getting a PS3.
Still though, £40 a year is only like £3.20 a month (cba to to maths, it's early), i'd say i get more than 15p worth a day (=
But no, no price raise.
I don't want to have to spend more
Microsoft would never do this. Why? People wouldn't buy 360s anymore, they'd be like, "Why buy a 360 and pay $100 for online when I can just get a PS3 and get online for free?"
I hope everyone understands this is also coming from the same man who said that people don't really want to play multiplayer online games. Remember this is a prediction and this man has been wrong in the past.
Quickly my children! run to your nearest xbox dealer in town and buy all the points and live subscriptions you can! I would do it. But i have 2 year live subscription + 2 free months.
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