Xbox Price Cut in Japan?

m$ = evil empire

Bill Gates is the reason for all our computing goodness.

Anyway, how could you not love this face?


Ace

He\'d look much better with an exit wound in his forehead.

Still, the Xbox is a competant competetor, and will be home to a lot of gaming goodness... even it if is slow in arriving as of late. I heard GameSpot gave Dead to Rights a 2/5. To hate the console because of the man, tho, is a pretty stupid reason. You can recognise the Xbox for what it is and the potential it holds while still maintianing a boycott of it.

Where is it written that you have to hate a product to protest it?

Originally posted by SonyFan
He\'d look much better with an exit wound in his forehead.
 

First off, you need some anger management.

Originally posted by SonyFan
Where is it written that you have to hate a product to protest it?

No you don\'t have to hate the product to protest the product.

I still don\'t understand boycotting a product if you think it has potential. Now if you say that you will wait to buy it because you are waiting for games that interest you to come out, than that makes perfect sense. I am doing that with the Cube. I just think it goes a little deeper than that here. I find it very interesting either way.

Ace

I wonder though in the future once costs go down do you think the xbox will shrink like the PSOne did.

[Titan]

Originally posted by D-Day

If you hate MS for this reason, then you would have to hate Sony as well if you don\'t want it to be a double standard.

Sony isn\'t monopolizing. Sony\'s business is home entertainment and electronics (same as home entertainment). They aren\'t straying too much away from that. MS buys out their competition and are entering in every market. What\'s next, the food business? They make computers, computer components and then see that Sony and Nintendo are doing well in consoles so they enter too? They are basically copying what competition is doing. I hate MS because of monopolizing and copying.

[Jumpman]

Sony isn\'t monopolizing. Sony\'s business is home entertainment and electronics (same as home entertainment).

Home entertainment eh? Computers fall into that category.

Oh, and electronics is a pretty big category.

MS buys out their competition and are entering in every market.

Exactly what competition did MS buy out? There main source of profit is from OS software. The only other company that makes OS software is Macintosh and yes MS did buy them out(I think?) but they were always ridiculously far beyind MS anyways. Besides, now people we\'ll be introduced to the technologically superior macs anyways with MS\'s money.

MS entered the computer market, the gaming market, and...am I missing one here? Sony has entered more. CD players, Stereos, TVs, videogames, radios, and a lot more that I can\'t think of at the moment.

The problem with MS\'s monopoly\'s image is that that have absolutely no competition. Mac was competition but they manufactured whole computers while MS just does software... They have no competition to buy out! If Sony could buy out their competition then they would without hesitatiom but their competition is almost infinitely stronger\'s than MS\'s.

**** Sony pays developers not to develop for the competition. Do you like that strategy? I do, but it\'s not exactly "heart-warming".

What\'s next, the food business?

That wasn\'t needed.

They make computers, computer components and then see that Sony and Nintendo are doing well in consoles so they enter too?

They don\'t make computers for the record. Anyways, Sony has entered more markets than MS has including consoles. Is that a bad thing? Of course not. But you seem to hate MS for stuff that Sony does aswell.

They are basically copying what competition is doing. I hate MS because of monopolizing and copying.

Sony copies too. Go to an electronics store and look at the products. Chances are Sony didn\'t come up with every one of those first so they entered it later.

MS has the OS market monopolized. Anything else? Sony doesn\'t have any markets monopolized but if they could then they would no doubt. It\'s just smart business to get rid of the competition.

When has MS ever made computers?  They are a software company and, over the years, made some excellent computer games.

Nintendo started off as a playing card company.

Sony, largely, TVs and walkmans.

It must be easy to argue a point when you can rewrite history to support it. :rolleyes:

When has MS ever made computers? - Watchdog

I\'m pretty sure Microsoft has dwelved into the hardware market before. I recall some artical I read in PCWorld awhile ago about how MS was trying to sell their own offically licenced PC which was made only with MS approved components. Not sure if some of the parts were made by MS themselves or if it was all outsourced.. but either way it failed miserably and that\'s why you don\'t hear people bring it up all the time. Kinda like the MSX, the joint project between a Brazillian or whatever company to make MS\'s first game console.

Hey, now I remember! The MSX! So the X-Box wasn\'t MS first console after all! LOL.

But if I\'m not wrong, MSX did have a cult following in Japan, there was many MSX from different manufacturer, sort of like a common console standard...maybe they should have renamed the XBOX as MSX II and it\'ll do better in Japan!

hee-hee.

Side note: I believe SONY had also tried to made PC but failed just as miserably as MS and never heard of again.

Originally posted by Paul
Side note: I believe SONY had also tried to made PC but failed just as miserably as MS and never heard of again.

i believe sony did and still make pcs their called vaio (or something) their just so expensive.

yes, sony continue\'s to make PC\'s and notebooks

Bill Gates is the reason for all our computing goodness.

ummm, you kinda got that backwards

I was just trying to tweak you guys.

If they ever made a computer (I think I remember that now too), that all the more reason Titan is completely wrong.

So, mm, if he got it backwards, computer goodness is the reason we have Billy Gates?

Don\'t forget that Sony saw Nintendo and Sega were doing so well in video game consoles and decided to get a piece of the action, too.

Before that, they just made crappy games.

And MS is also home entertainment so what\'s the difference between what they did and what Sony did?