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To: Win Smith who wrote (42559)6/4/2001 8:11:39 PM
From: fyodor_Respond to of 275872
 
Win: There's one piece of the Xbox puzzle being forgotten. Something's got to pay for Microsoft's big bucks subsidy for the Xbox hardware, and that's software licensing.

That particular piece is not forgotten... at least by me (heh, sorry for blowing my own horn here...) From Message 15892766 :

Of course, the strongest protection against XBox cloning (as well as cloning of any other "console") is that the hardware is virtually given away, with the money being made on the software side of things.

-fyo



To: Win Smith who wrote (42559)6/4/2001 9:19:59 PM
From: Joe NYCRead Replies (2) | Respond to of 275872
 
Win,

I think the ideal situation for MSFT is if the Xbox games can be played on W2K machines, but regular Windows games can't.

This way, more people would pay the inflated prices for XBox games, some who don't even have XBox, so for Microsoft, those sales would be pure profit, since there would be no hardware subsidy to swallow up front.

Joe


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