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Why The X-Box Network Will Fail
angkor wrote to us an article from The Register that looks at what Microsoft is planning for the X-Box Network. The factual information is educating on it's own - and the analysis of why they think it will fail is interesting as well.
I don't want it to fail sooooo bad
I want it to fail super dooper sooooooo bad!!
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Wow, really? Because as we all know, The Register has never been anything but impartial and fair when dealing with Microsoft in the past...
Microsoft is trying to buy into a market already cornered by another player with huge funds at its disposal. The recent reduction in price is clearly an indication that Sony is winning the bid for the market although Nintendo might have something to say about that too (Although I also doubt that).
The X-box might be a better console. But Sony already prepped the PS2 market when they released the PS1 and subsequently made the PS2 backwards compatible. It's going to cost Microsoft billions of dollars and several iterations of the X-box to get a substantial bite of the console market.
Personally I couldn't care less if Microsoft does or does not succeed with the X-box. I've owned a PS1 for a long time and recently got a PS2. I have no intention of buying an X-box.
Remember, there are no stupid questions. But there are a lot of inquisitive idiots.
They already have something like this for PC's. The Zone/ is sorta like Gamespy for dummies. I used to use it to get races in Motocross Madness 2. Most of the time it totally sucked, horrid pings and such. It runs on msn, which is why I'm a little confused as to why M$ needs to create another data center simply for Xbox online stuff. Frankly, I hope they choke on their own vomit.
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