MS CEO: Xbox Live 'Going Gangbusters'

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The San Jose Mercury News (http://www.mercurynews.com/) spoke with Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer on a wide range of topics including his take (http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10621083?source=rss) on how well Xbox Live is doing. Q The story in July at E3 was that you had many bullets left in your holster that you could use to juice Xbox sales. You had all these great games that were coming out for the fall, and you didn't need to cut price to juice sales. But now two months later, you've cut the price.

A Price is not something you discuss externally. Nobody ever does. So, whether we were planning on cutting price the next day or in six months or a year, we're not going to discuss price changes.

If you ask me, Xbox Live is going gangbusters. The console is selling well.Thanks MCV (http://www.mcvuk.com/).

[Meusli]

What on earth does he mean when he says it is going Gangbusters?

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What on earth does he mean when he says it is going Gangbusters?It's slang for very busy, doing well etc..

[Mephistopheles]

If Steve Ballmer said it then it is so; the man is not known as one who overstates or exaggerates.

(I'm sure Xbox Live is doing great and I'm not trying to take anything away from it, but I find it amusing that it's news that Ballmer said a Microsoft product is doing great.)

[oldjadedgamer]

A Price is not something you discuss externally. Nobody ever does. So, whether we were planning on cutting price the next day or in six months or a year, we're not going to discuss price changes.

I always think it's funny when someone writes "but they already denied a price drop" bullcrap.