Memory Card (8MB) (for PlayStation 2) $ 24 SRP
DUALSHOCK 2 Analog Controller $ 24 SRP
Awesome. I\'m going to get a second memory card and a new PS2 controller (I\'m stuck using old PSX controllers because the cord to my PS2 controller got torn up by my stupid dog) as soon as possible.
lemme remember back about 6 or 7 years........the Atari jaguar made a semi-spectacular entrance then fizzled in 3 years....could M$ beat that record??????
Lets see. Atari was a hugely unstable company with absolutely no source of income. Microsoft is a massive corporation with greater earnings than nearly every other company on the Earth.
If you look at past failures, those that had spectacular entrances that eventually had to leave the market most often had to leave because the companies behind them couldn\'t continue to keep pouring money into the systems without getting any money back. Sega and the Dreamcast, as well as Atari and the Jaguar, are great examples of this. Each company had to pull out of the hardware market due to their inability to survive in the hardware market.
Microsoft isn\'t like these companies, because it\'s not at risk of dying out, or even coming near that, even if it continues down this money-losing path.
They are losing a ridiculous amount of money on this. But the thing about Microsoft, the trait they have that Sega and Atari didn\'t is,
they can.I\'m not going to make any predictions. I\'m not going to say they won\'t leave the industry entirely, because that\'s always possible. But they can get away with losing quite a bit more money than other failed gaming companies could\'ve.
