{"id":488,"date":"2012-05-02T00:05:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T00:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=488"},"modified":"2018-07-09T22:12:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T22:12:29","slug":"xbox-goes-subscription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/xbox-goes-subscription\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox 360 Sold Via Subscription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-489\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/360-Sub-Offer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"114\" \/>MAY 2, 2012\u00a0<strong>\u25cf<\/strong> Microsoft is introducing a new Xbox 360 subscription business model that takes after mobile phone contracts. The company is now offering a 4GB 360 console with Kinect for $99. Consumers who take advantage of the deal agree to subscribe to Xbox Live for two years at $15 a month ($360). The same bundle retails for $299, and two years of Live membership adds another $120.\u00a0 So consumers who take advantage of the new subscription option end up with a $419 value, yet will have spent $459 over two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Microsoft seems to be betting there are a lot of suckers out there.\u00a0 Most users would do better charging an extra $200 on their credit card and pay $5 a month for Xbox Live.\u00a0 Of course, a 4GB Xbox 360 is the low end of the totem pole.\u00a0 The appeal of this might be limited to high school and college students with limited credit and some extra beer money on hand.\u00a0 We do not think it will have a major impact on Xbox 360 sales.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAY 2, 2012\u00a0\u25cf Microsoft is introducing a new Xbox 360 subscription business model that takes after mobile phone contracts. The company is now offering a 4GB 360 console with Kinect for $99. Consumers who take advantage of the deal agree to subscribe to Xbox Live for two years at $15 a month ($360). The same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137,58,78],"tags":[52,256,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16426,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/16426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}