A new Forbes article that includes comments from Chief Xbox Officer,
Robbie Bach, states that Xbox Live now has over 750,000 paying users,
and that 13.7 million consoles have been sold since the console's
launch. Here's Bach on Christmas sales:
The last two weeks of Christmas were a little
The article goes on to state that Microsoft's focus is now converting
Xbox Live users who are playing for free with the '2 month trial' cards
in selected games, into fee paying subscribers.
Subscription fees mean I will never be on Xbox Live. I abhor the
subscription model.
-Kevin
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' Xbox console hits 3/4 million Live subscribers.
The article goes on to state that Microsoft's focus is now converting
Xbox Live users who are playing for free with the '2 month trial' cards
in selected games, into fee paying subscribers.
Subscription fees mean I will never be on Xbox Live. I
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Subject: RE: 'unpopular' Xbox console hits 3/4 million Live subscribers.
I dunno - I think MS did it right.Or least close to right.
There are, for example, more people online with PS2 but each game is
doing
it's own
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From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 12:34 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: 'unpopular' Xbox console hits 3/4 million
Oh, I love the technical implementation. I just despise the business model.
-Kevin
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From: Jim Davis
To: CF-Community
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 12:15 PM
Subject: RE: 'unpopular' Xbox console hits 3/4 million Live subscribers.
I dunno - I think MS did
wow that is unpopular
cf_sarcasm
looks like kwang was right!!
/cf_sarcasm
Its ok kwang we're all wrong sometimes and if we didn't pick
on you it would mean we didn't love you.
Still not sold as many units as there's been copies as the Bible, so it
just CAN'T be popular :P
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I wonder if from these numbers we could extrapolate the market for
Phatom's 'Always Connected' business plan?
-Gel
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[Todays
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: 'unpopular' Xbox console hits 3/4 million Live subscribers.
wow that is unpopular
cf_sarcasm
looks like kwang was right!!
/cf_sarcasm
Its ok kwang we're all wrong sometimes and if we didn't pick on you it
would mean we didn't love you.
--
Bill Wheatley
Senior
