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joe smith
Shouldn't that give a HUGE advantage to the ATARI 2600?
And how huge is the advantage now? Why anyone bothers to compete with the
ATARI 2600 in the first place, if it has like 20+ year lead? Let's be
realistic here, the key isn't if you launch a month or two before your
opposition, but if you have the product the customers want. Timing plays a
small role in the equation, but more generally Microsoft has to make people
WANT to have the XBOX2. It's that "simple".
HALO was the reason I got XBOX. Since then most of the titles have been
something I most of the time have easily skipped, but it makes a really nice
"mediacenter" when you mod it, and replace the puny hard-drive with
something half-decent, and stream videos off your home fileserver sitting in
the basement. For that, it's ideal especially when you have the xbox remote
controller.
I would have bought XBOX years earlier, too, even as mediacenter only w/o
the possibility to run games on the darn thing. It's a nice extra, but
currently there is lacking on game titles I would be willing to spend my
time on, not to mention pay money to spend my time on. They should
concentrate on that aspect and suddenly larger audience will be interested
in the darn thing. I don't have delusions that people who run modified
console are anykind of mainstream market for'em.
Obviously the bunch at Microsoft are pretty smart, generally, so I would
think they already decided what kind of market they want to appeal to. If
you sell the system for "gamers only", it means you're going head-to-head
with SONY on the area where they are the strongest: content. But if they try
to make appeal to broader range of different markets, it means they will
have to be interested in making profit for actual console units sold (which
isn't the case, I think their business model was to make profit with the
software, correct me if I am wrong). Therefore it doesn't make any sense to
try to make profit selling as many consoles as possible, if the consoles
will not generate income in a long term from the customers. So the guys like
me, who buy very little games and use the console as mediacenter, are
actually net loss for them.
Therefore, I came to the simplest conclusion that they need ****ing better
content and +-few months for the launchdate doesn't help much if their
content side is ****ed. I'm not saying that their current catalogue is
crappy, I'm just saying that in MY OPINION there isn't anything for me,
besides a few titles which I enjoy very much. I'll buy the next console
from'em aswell because I like everything new and shiny.
Excuse me, have to run, they are coming to get me again.
And how huge is the advantage now? Why anyone bothers to compete with the
ATARI 2600 in the first place, if it has like 20+ year lead? Let's be
realistic here, the key isn't if you launch a month or two before your
opposition, but if you have the product the customers want. Timing plays a
small role in the equation, but more generally Microsoft has to make people
WANT to have the XBOX2. It's that "simple".
HALO was the reason I got XBOX. Since then most of the titles have been
something I most of the time have easily skipped, but it makes a really nice
"mediacenter" when you mod it, and replace the puny hard-drive with
something half-decent, and stream videos off your home fileserver sitting in
the basement. For that, it's ideal especially when you have the xbox remote
controller.
I would have bought XBOX years earlier, too, even as mediacenter only w/o
the possibility to run games on the darn thing. It's a nice extra, but
currently there is lacking on game titles I would be willing to spend my
time on, not to mention pay money to spend my time on. They should
concentrate on that aspect and suddenly larger audience will be interested
in the darn thing. I don't have delusions that people who run modified
console are anykind of mainstream market for'em.
Obviously the bunch at Microsoft are pretty smart, generally, so I would
think they already decided what kind of market they want to appeal to. If
you sell the system for "gamers only", it means you're going head-to-head
with SONY on the area where they are the strongest: content. But if they try
to make appeal to broader range of different markets, it means they will
have to be interested in making profit for actual console units sold (which
isn't the case, I think their business model was to make profit with the
software, correct me if I am wrong). Therefore it doesn't make any sense to
try to make profit selling as many consoles as possible, if the consoles
will not generate income in a long term from the customers. So the guys like
me, who buy very little games and use the console as mediacenter, are
actually net loss for them.
Therefore, I came to the simplest conclusion that they need ****ing better
content and +-few months for the launchdate doesn't help much if their
content side is ****ed. I'm not saying that their current catalogue is
crappy, I'm just saying that in MY OPINION there isn't anything for me,
besides a few titles which I enjoy very much. I'll buy the next console
from'em aswell because I like everything new and shiny.
Excuse me, have to run, they are coming to get me again.
