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  • Microsoft <3 Bungie

  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.

 #141377  by Tessian
 Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:47 am
an odd title for this news... yes Bungie helped push sales with ODST, but as the article indicates there were a lot of factors that nearly doubled Xbox's income this quarter (from last year). Quite impressive, since as they mention Xbox used to be a consistent loss in Microsoft's book. Also shows strong evidence that DLC is quite popular too.

 #141389  by Zeus
 Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:14 pm
Yeah, I would imagine the 50% increase in XBL revenue is due mostly to increased DLC downloading and, to a smaller extent, subscription revenue. DLC is certainly become more and more popular each year. I'm interested to see how this will affect Sony and Nintendo's numbers in the coming years. That will go a long way into shaping the design of future home consoles

 #141398  by SineSwiper
 Sun Oct 25, 2009 2:41 pm
There's not enough XBLA games out right now.

 #141404  by Zeus
 Sun Oct 25, 2009 4:16 pm
SineSwiper wrote:There's not enough XBLA games out right now.
I hope to hell you mean there's isn't a consistent string of them coming, as in 3 a week.

 #141417  by SineSwiper
 Sun Oct 25, 2009 9:32 pm
I haven't checked my XBox in a few weeks, but the games that have come out don't seem like much. Last XBLA game I bought was Shadow Complex, which was a few months ago.

Maybe I'll check today if anything else is out there.