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Microsoft wants to bump up the cost of Xbox Live Gold
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Xbox's market analyst Michael Pachter wants to bump up the cost of Xbox Live Gold from $50 to $100 as early as 2011. While it's about a year and a half off, still, why? I can't even make sense of his quote:
"You can't hook into Xbox Live Gold if he's playing on a PC. 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."
So basically what he's saying is... He wants to bump up the price of the 360 either when there's enough of a customer base, or to attract more people. Neither makes sense (one less than the other) because last I checked, if you wanted a larger customer base and keep it, you lowered your prices. What's also upsetting is that most of Xbox Live's features are free on other platforms. Namely PCs, in which Steam offers the best substitute for Xbox Live.
Source: Maximum PC
