JMH
Emeritus, Contributor
- Apr 2, 2012
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Microsoft Pulls Plug on $99 Xbox 360 Subscription Scheme | Maximum PCDeal was exclusive to North America
In 2012, taking a leaf out of the mobile phone carriers’ book, Microsoft began offering a 4GB Xbox 360 console, a Kinect motion sensing camera and an Xbox LIVE Gold membership for just $99 to those willing to commit themselves to a $15-per-month two-year contract. The company, it has now emerged, quietly pulled the plug on that experiment a while back.