XBL may not be what its worth......
244 days 15 hours ago
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Coolrah
Well I just wanted to start this off by saying that I am not a fanboy and I am only suggesting a certain thought or question that came to mind. Personally I feel that live is not worth it for personal reasons although I am not trying to downplay miscrosoft at all. So lets begin shall we?
So according to our friendly neighborhood microsoft they reported that they have 17 million gold members subscribed to their live service. Now thats an impressive number if you consider thats 50 dollars from each of those gold members which most likely reaps in huge amounts of profits. Now of course we don't know how these numbers have fluctuated as they were announced a good time ago. Although since microsoft have been pretty quiet about them I can only guess that they haven't significantly grown. There probaly in a 17-20 mil margin by now.
Now thats all nice and dandy but consider this. Microsoft reported having sold 27.93 mil by january of 2009. Add this with the current NPD data this would put them at about 28-29 mil units so far. Now thats great but as we don't know how much of each SKU sold but where not discussing that. I want to point out that if you compare that 29 mil to that 18-20 mil of current gold subscribers to XBL.....Thats roughly around 11 mil people of Xbox 360's fanbase not paying for the gold. Now this could be from the fact that these are worldwide numbers and that the lack of subscribers could be the fact that not everyone has a internet connection. But what if it could be the fact that a good few million people just don't think live is worth it. I mean I've known people who only bought 360 for 1 or 2 games and didn't feel that live is worth it. But if its what alot of its gold subscribers say it is the number of non gold 360's is pretty larger than I think it should be. Thats a good 30% of microsofts fanbase not paying for its globally acclaimed online service.
This could also be a combination of a bunch of things. Some people don't like subscriptions, Cost of wifi adapters may be too costly for some, Maybe people are victims of system failures, or it could be as I said earlier that not everyone has a good internet connections along with various other reasons as to why people don't have live such as region issues or IP issues.
So discuss and debate the possible reasons. No fanboy comments please.
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