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Console Pricing Economics
Red Mercury writes "Red Mercury has just released a new installment of Monday Morning CEO. Today's topic: XBox Economics. The article explains some of the myths and realities about game console pricing, how the current price war is playing out, why Sony is winning, and why Microsoft is losing." Interesting piece about all the recent console price cuts.
"Why is it that the audience here is unwilling to get behind an "All American" company and support it, yet they feel its perfectly ok to promote a product that they are not involved in ?"
Because us silly Americans tend to like a competitive market and want the best product available. Microsoft seems to be about as capable of producing a competing console as Atari.
We don't automaticly support whatever crap that is produced in our country because we simply aren't French.
"Microsoft = bad yet Sony who have media and hardware control than M$ can only dream of are somehow good !"
There are plenty of households out there that don't have any Sony hardware but still have Microsoft software. Heck, you find Microsoft sofware running on Sony hardware. Remember that by far the best selling piece of Sony hardware is the PlayStation.
Oh, and in terms of manufacturing a competitive console, Sony does a better job. To the victor goes the spoils. Again, we're not French.
"Microsoft have done more to promote computing worldwide than _any other company_"
*cough* IBM *cough*
"yet you kick sand in their faces when you actually have an opportunity to promote this "product of America""
At this point I think even the French would be insulted by the way you confuse us.