"Is that an anecdote or is there some data behind it? I would be surprised to hear a majority of Netflix users are using it from Xbox live accounts since for th

"Is that an anecdote or is there some data behind it? I would be surprised to hear a majority of Netflix users are using it from Xbox live accounts since for the longest time it was an extra cost on top of Netflix." I don't think it was ever a "majority," nor did I state it as such. But historically, it's been a significant percentage. As recently as late 2013, roughly 39% of Netflix streamers did so through a video game console. PS3 and XBox were basically neck-and-neck for their slice of that 39% [1]. The numbers were higher in earlier years, before the advent of smarter TVs and media players. Around the time Microsoft would have been conceiving of XBox Entertainment Studios -- let's call that late 2011 to maybe early 2012 -- XBox had a larger share of Netflix streaming traffic than it does today. And the numbers went the other way, as well: a large percentage of XBox Live users used Netflix, possibly to the threat or exclusion of Microsoft's own channel offerings. [1] Source: NPD Group, as referenced in http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/13/netflix-redesign_n_4262877.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/13/netflix-redesign_n_...