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Xbox Live revenue tops $1 billion

article published on 8 July, 2010

According to a new report from Bloomberg, Microsoft's Xbox Live service brought in $1.2 billion revenue for the fiscal 2009 year. For the year ended June 30th, about 12.5 million Xbox Live users paid an annual fee to play games online which Bloomberg says would account for about $600 million in revenue. Xbox Live COO Dennis Durkin says on top of that, sales of DLC, movies and TV topped ... [ read the full article ]

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Hopium

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9. July 2010 @ 01:59

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even with a paid service microsoft has brought online gaming to the consoles single handedly, before live you could play socom on the ps2 and that was about it then h2 launch and they had a community twice the size and they were paying for it! microsoft had some good planning with the xbox live service and so far has executed it well. i think maybe if the ps3 was much easier to port to the sony service would have surpassed live in folds but the lack of games for the first year didnt give sony that push to put them in the frontlines of online gaming. i kinda wished it didnt happen that way so microsoft would put out more free content and add new features to push it more. but with sony now entering the pay 2 play maybe it will promote competition and push both companies to innovate. which is good for us xbox fanboys and ps3 fanboys alike.

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xblade132

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9. July 2010 @ 07:55

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online play on ps3 is still free...

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Gnawnivek

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9. July 2010 @ 11:14

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Wow, that's a lot of dough... I haven't pay them a penny though, I like my silver membership :)

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xtago

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9. July 2010 @ 13:03

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So MS have 24 million users on XBox Live then.

I can't see this working as some MMO's which use this same method of making cash have swapped to a free to play model because you only get some many people playing the game.

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Jemborg

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9. July 2010 @ 15:21

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Originally posted by Hopium:
even with a paid service microsoft has brought online gaming to the consoles single handedly, before live you could play socom on the ps2 and that was about it then h2 launch and they had a community twice the size and they were paying for it! microsoft had some good planning with the xbox live service and so far has executed it well. i think maybe if the ps3 was much easier to port to the sony service would have surpassed live in folds but the lack of games for the first year didnt give sony that push to put them in the frontlines of online gaming. i kinda wished it didnt happen that way so microsoft would put out more free content and add new features to push it more. but with sony now entering the pay 2 play maybe it will promote competition and push both companies to innovate. which is good for us xbox fanboys and ps3 fanboys alike.

Good comment.

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