Damn we're all doomed!!!!

" Wow I'll say it, make a Gold membership cheaper  It will never happen Just had to say it "

" @FinalDasa said:

" Wow I'll say it, make a Gold membership cheaper  It will never happen Just had to say it "

It's $3 a month if you buy it in 12 month chunks from retailers like Newegg. If you go any lower than $3 a month you may as well just make it free. XBL is so cheap that it is essentially free. "

Woah, that's good business.  Make money selling nothing.

" Brad N. needs to stop with the constant GB memes in every article and tagline. He's just running them into the ground and it's annoying. "

Friar estimates Xbox Live has gross margins, the percentage of sales remaining after deducting production costs, of about 65 percent. [~$650M?] That’s buoyed results in the entertainment division, which has reported an annual profit only since 2008.  

"Microsoft to rent out the Staples Center for one night only."  
Nice.  
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" Woah, that's good business.  Make money selling nothing. "

It's not like Microsoft actually made that much money on Live. It's just how much money passed through their tightly controlled little econo-sphere.

" @Crushed said:

" Brad N. needs to stop with the constant GB memes in every article and tagline. He's just running them into the ground and it's annoying. "

He will, if you stop with the constant meme of bashing him. On topic, I wish Microsoft would share the love with some free arcade games here or there. "

" @DOUBLESHOCK said:

" Woah, that's good business.  Make money selling nothing. "

This includes XBLA games..... "

Staples Center is going to be psyched that MS screwed up the decimal place on their check.

Great article! 
 
Man, what I would do with a billion dollars... 
 
I know I would donate a million each to all of the Whiskey Media sites. 

I find it quite funny that Steam does everything that Live does, except better, AND for free. Dur hur Microsoft.

more reason to make xbox live free

I've always been happy with the XBox Live service; I'm glad they're raking in the money, personally.

" @Radar said:

" @DOUBLESHOCK said:

" Woah, that's good business.  Make money selling nothing. "

This includes XBLA games..... "

Great!  and if you don't include XBLA games they still made a lot of money for nothing, which is what I said originally. "

Perfect tagline.  Just perfect.

" Brad N. needs to stop with the constant GB memes in every article and tagline. He's just running them into the ground and it's annoying. "

Gotta wonder what sort of cut Microsoft takes for DLC / XBLA games.  Whatever it is, it sounds like downloadable content and titles are here to stay.  Hot dog! And durgers!

I'd be more interested to know how much profit they made on those sales.

Thats Billion Bucks!!!

So maybe they can remove all of the retarded ads still present on the service for Gold members.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
...oh what am I saying! That's never gonna happen!

haha - Tagline. 

I don't have any ads on my Xbox Live Dashboard. I guess that's one of the few advantages of being European on Xbox Live.

charging a subscription fee + pushing ads on subscribers = $1 billion 
 
who knew?

Great, even more reason for publishers to release over priced DLC that should have been part of the 60 bucks game in the first place.

those dicks

This might actually be a good thing. I enjoy my Xbox Live membership, and if company's are going to compete at a higher level to get a piece of the pie...I welcome it. There is way too much crappy, overpriced  DLC stuff out there.  

Well, I guess that explains the existence of Playstation Plus.

And yet I don't think it's worth the money we pay. Have a growing dislike of Xbox LIVE, we pay a lot for very little. 

so, with lal that money, you'd think they could stop charging $50 a year for LIVE service...
I mean, they're obviously doing well on the arcade and movie sales, so they can still bring in money for the service...
plus, they now have a shitload of capital where they wouldn't need as much coming in to keep the service active.
 
It'd be a nice gesture on the side of Microsoft, and I'm sure many gamers would appreciate it and probobly spend that $50 that they're not spending every year on a new Xbox LIVE Arcade game...

Are you sure it was a billion. My sources say that XBL made 775 million.

" @mnzy said:

" ESPN: US-only Hulu: US-only Netflix: US-only last.fm: US and UK(?)-only Destination Arcade: US-only so far Some countries don't even have indie games.  Get your act together Microsoft, we pay the same price or more. "

Haven't you realized? Microsoft doesn't give a fuck about other countries. It's ok though. In Japan, Xbox 360 sales are crap. "

" @Xeiphyer:@ch13696 said:

" @mnzy said:

" ESPN: US-only Hulu: US-only Netflix: US-only last.fm: US and UK(?)-only Destination Arcade: US-only so far Some countries don't even have indie games.  Get your act together Microsoft, we pay the same price or more. "

Haven't you realized? Microsoft doesn't give a fuck about other countries. It's ok though. In Japan, Xbox 360 sales are crap. "

Totally. I gave it up after a year. It's like, what the hell am I getting out of my $60? The privilege of getting to play online? I can do that for free on PC and PS3. Lame Microsoft, real lame. "

I don't mind paying for online. 
My problem with it is, that it feels like I pay for making Live better for US citizens. They have to do something about it. It probably won't get cheaper, but we should atleast get something else.

Is that a profit for Microsoft, though?

Chili Cheese Durgers, YEA!

It would be great for the consumer if the subscription service was free while charging for the extra content such as DLC, avatar clothing, and the various other items to spice the players virtual world. Oh wait, isn't Sony doing that now with PSN?