Notice the banners on the dashboard menus? Notice the movie trailers for download? Notice advertisements inside many games already?
How much more intrusive can you get? And why should I pay $50/yr for this?
And about Micrsoft hosting files... it costs them next to nothing for 1GB of bandwidth, by that I mean 0.000001, and I'll bet you they get around $0.50 per download.
In a way, the Xbox 360 is also Microsoft's trojan horse to get inside your living room. Sales of Media Center PCs haven't been too great, so the Xbox 360 is taking its place in Microsoft's plan to dominate every device in the hame. The 360 isn't really a game console at heart, that's just the disguise to sell units.
"Spanning nearly ten years, AEG has had a long relationship with Microsoft, launching such top game franchises as Halo, Age of Empires and Fable, as well as the massively successful Xbox video game system."
Who knows, I bet many of the MS evangelists here are hired by AEG.
Microsoft munches Massive Inc.
Apr 26th 2006 1:23AM (Joystiq)Xbox Live Gold already has ads...
Notice the banners on the dashboard menus?
Notice the movie trailers for download?
Notice advertisements inside many games already?
How much more intrusive can you get? And why should I pay $50/yr for this?
And about Micrsoft hosting files... it costs them next to nothing for 1GB of bandwidth, by that I mean 0.000001, and I'll bet you they get around $0.50 per download.
In a way, the Xbox 360 is also Microsoft's trojan horse to get inside your living room. Sales of Media Center PCs haven't been too great, so the Xbox 360 is taking its place in Microsoft's plan to dominate every device in the hame. The 360 isn't really a game console at heart, that's just the disguise to sell units.
Joystiq poll: Waiting for E3
Apr 21st 2006 6:14PM (Joystiq)http://www.aeginfo.com/services.shtml
"AEG provides a wide range of services to increase exposure and increase positive buzz for our clients and their products."
Among other things "Message board monitoring and response"
And their best customer... Microsoft of course.
http://www.aeginfo.com/clients.shtml
"Spanning nearly ten years, AEG has had a long relationship with Microsoft, launching such top game franchises as Halo, Age of Empires and Fable, as well as the massively successful Xbox video game system."
Who knows, I bet many of the MS evangelists here are hired by AEG.