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Xbox 360 Live pricing plans leaked to web

Gold, always believe in your soul

By Aaron McKenna: Wednesday 31 August 2005, 09:34
PRICING DETAILS FOR the online play system of the Xbox 360 have been revealed in a recent leak which shows that there will be two versions of the premium service available.

We had already been told by MS that basic access to Xbox Live, which includes the ability to message other users but not actually play games, would be free. The premium "Gold" service however works much like the current Xbox Live subscription system where players pay a flat fee in order to access the system.

The pricing for this Gold subscription was leaked to Xbox Live France which managed to get scans of the marketing materials.

The most expensive subscription is the "Premium Gold" which comes with a 12 month subscription, a communications headset, an Xbox Live arcade game "Billiards," a $20 discount on an Xbox 360 game purchase and 200 points in the Xbox Live marketplace. All this costs $69.99.

After that one can get a basic 12 month subscription for $59.99 which has one extra month thrown in for free, or a 3 and 1 month subscription to the service for $19.99 and $7.99 respectively.

Not entirely bad.  But why the hell would anyone buy the "Basic Gold" plan if you get a $20 coupon for a game?  That makes the Premium Gold plan cheaper by $10.  I dunno who's running MS's marketing department but they need their heads examined.  Then again, this is the Inquirer translating French so god only knows what The Original said.

[Carlo210]

The translation is messed up.

I would warn people to not take this into consideration or else you will get really confused.

[LowProfileWurm]

Does anyone speak french that would be able to translate the original?  I'd be curious to know what it really says.  

Thanks for the heads up Carlo.

[Carlo210]