In addition to trumpeting their Disney/ABC deal, Microsoft have also announced that there are now ten million paying subscribers signed up to their Xbox Live service. A big number, then, but with 17.7 million consoles sold worldwide (and no numbers on the number of Silver subscribers) there's potentially a lot of people out there in need of some convincing as to the merits of a paid online gaming service.

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