Driving in the Xbox 360 rainXbox 360, customer adventures, gaming — by TDavid @ 7:46 am PST
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Flickr has thousands of pictures tagged with Xbox 360, unfortunately some pictures (untagged and tagged) do not paint the machine in a very positive light.
Meanwhile, Reuters is reporting that Microsoft is taking a bath on the retail price:
The firm estimated the total cost to manufacture and test a premium Xbox 360, the software giant’s sleek and powerful new gaming machine, which debuted on Tuesday, was $552.27, compared with its retail price of $399.
It isn’t uncommon for console gaming hardware to be sold at a loss with the plan that the games will make the company a profit down the road. In the case of the Xbox this never really happened with a reported loss of $4 billion dollars. Microsoft is hoping the 360 will turn the tide, but they certainly aren’t off to a great start with underwhelming shipping numbers, glitches and system crashes.
Oh, and if you haven’t heard, it took a mere 24 hours for the pirates to climb aboard and rip the data off of Call of Duty 2 — believe it or not.
How long for homebrew gaming? Linux running? I don’t know much about the Xbox 360 Arcade, but it would be really cool if any developer could submit games legally to be available via this channel.
[…] If this actually happens and the kit isn’t completely handicapped it’s a really smart marketing move. It could bring back the games of yesterday and open up a marketplace on Live for smaller games developers to create entertainment (and revenue). I mused back in November 2005 that it would be exciting and a little like 1980-1985 all over again if the field was more wide open for smaller game developers. I believe that you’ll see some innovation from smaller developers that isn’t possible for the bigger ones who have to spent millions making games and can’t affort to take the risks that smaller publishers can do with a download only marketplace and not as involved graphics/gameplay elements requiring teams of artists, actors and programmers. […]
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[…] Christmas for game developers has arrived early, some nine months since it became official, thirteen since I dreamed about it. […]
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