How Much is Xbox Live Worth? Try Over $1 Billion.
How much is Xbox Live really worth? All it took was a little back of the envelope figuring for Bloomberg to come up with $1 billion in annual revenue for Microsoft’s fiscal year, ending June 30.
While Microsoft’s been mum about revenue from its online entertainment service for the Xbox 360, Bloomberg simply multiplied the number of users Microsoft admits paid the annual Xbox Live fee–half of 25 million, or 12.5 million–by the $50 fee itself and came up with about $600 million.
They then took Xbox chief operating officer Dennis Durkin’s remark that sales of downloadable content topped subscription revenue for the first time–at least $600 million in additional dollars, that is–and landed at upwards of $1.2 billion total.
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