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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (73084)	5/16/2001 10:28:38 PM
From: pheilman_	Respond to of 93625

RE:"MSFT is too big to be influenced by the relatively small game market. They just have too much money to throw around and couldn't find anyone to buy so decided to develope their own, which will likely be another big blunder (dry well)." I thought the game market was pretty big. Doesn't every kid have a Nintendo AND PS2? Jim, I have some experience in the game market. The boxes are sold significantly below cost. The interesting angle is that for years there was no US manufacturer of game boxes so "dumping" of the game boxes could not be brought to court. Microsoft will be able to bring a claim of dumping against Sony and Nintendo. The total game market is something like $6 billion per year. I doubt Microsoft will move 10 million boxes in the first year. PS2 is just starting to get good games, and that is what moves machines. On-topic Nintendo-DDR, Microsoft-DDR, Sony-RDRAM. Paul