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To: tejek who wrote (94561)	2/22/2000 11:17:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573848

Ted, The Sony playstation costs Sony about $300 and is to be sold at a loss to seed the market with software users. To meet that price competition the MSFT product needs to be close to that price point. I wonder if MSFT will ask for a fee from each game maker for each CD they sell? Remember that everey Sony game sold means one less PC game sold so it might be in the game makers interest to kick a few bucks to MSFT. SONY tightly controls the games and thus it streams all $$ back to Sony. This is a threat to PC game makers as few PCs on the open market will be able to meet a $149 price point. that means Sony will get the lions share unless another alternative comes along. Gates is depending on the open market to make games that are as good or better than the Sony games and it it gets a 5010% fee on each game sold for it's station then the game sellers might see that as a lesser evil than Sony getting all their share> When you pick weevils, always pick the lesser of two weevils. Bill