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  From: Evan Bourlotos <evan@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 16:29:05 +0900

Re: Linux on Xbox

This is the reason I REFUSE to indulge my kids with a consoles.
It is much cheaper long term to outfit them with p3 based systems (both of
which) have gef2/dvd's and 40gb drives. 
IT gives daddy plenty of offsite storage ALL run Linux and the kids enjoy
the ability to play the hired ps/1 (ps/2 will be out soon too no doubt)
games via emulators or simply wait for the $20 versions a year later.

Most kids get sick of the game long term anyway.

Evan




At 04:13 PM 28-05-02 +1000, Christopher Yeoh wrote:
>At 2002/5/28 15:27+0930  John Edwards writes:
>> "Thiele, Nicholas Wayne - THINW002" wrote:
>> > 
>> > loosing $100 on every box sold?  I know they have had to cut costs to
compete
>> > with Sony and Nintendo but I am sure this means the portion of the
development
>> > costs per unit that they haven't regained -rather than the difference in
>> > hardware manufacturing cost compared to retail price.
>> 
>> P3 CPU, 40G hard drive, dvd player, Nvidia GPU, all outsourced
>> manufacturing, price initially set around $600, and even then extremely
>> slim margins for retailers. Maybe they're breaking even on the hardware,
>> but what's paying for the massive marketing campaign?
>> 
>
>There have been various articles around about Microsoft losing money on
>each console they sell (eg http://news.com.com/2100-1040-818798.html -
>and this was before the recent price cuts).
>
>Historically it hasn't been unusual for console manufacturers to sell
>the playing unit at a loss and make up for it by selling games. And I
>imagine at the moment getting market share in the console market is
>more important for Microsoft than actually making a profit from it
>(remember - get monopoly first and _then_ you can raise prices :-)
>
>Chris
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