Pachter (groan) suggests $100 Xbox Live Platinum service is on the way (Xbox 360)

Gaming News Category: Xbox 360 News

Article Publish Date: 09-03-2010 12:00 AM -0700

Just to be clear, we don't go around believing everything that industry analyst Michael Pachter says. He was, after all, rather spectacularly wrong about how well Red Dead Redemption would do at retail. However, he's actually said something very interesting today that is cause for thought.

His thinking is that Microsoft's recently-announced hike in Xbox Live Gold subscription rates (which he called, admittedly) has come in to boost revenue with the aim of using the money to develop a third tier on the Xbox Live subscription options. We already have the basic Silver and premium Gold memberships - Pachter reckons we'll have a 'Platinum' level membership option in the not-too distant future. For $100. Ouch. Here's what he believes that would mean for you.

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