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Microsoft: No Xbox for You!
Markel writes "According this this story in the Sydney Morning Herald, Microsoft is very concerned about a man having been acquitted after allegedly selling [mod chips for a PlayStation]. So concerned in fact, that they are saying: change the law, or they will have to reconsider selling the Xbox in Australia. Not selling the Xbox is well within their rights, but putting it in a (I paraphrase slightly) "change the law or we'll .." context seems assuming a bit too much. I guess well see how many of our MPs are XBox gameheads."
...can we convince this man to sell mod chips for Windows, Office, Passport...
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According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Microsoft might stop selling the X-box, but apparently, not stop advertising in australian institutions. Upon clicking the link, I was greeted by a Xbox Racing banner ad. Hmmmm.
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they are $199... just ignore that PS2 logo on the side of the box, its the only box i had left. OH, and you'll need these 'special' xbox controllers. (the ps2 logos on those were misprints from the xbox factory, don't worry).
here is now it work, plug in your xbox, now plug in this 'mod chip' to the same power strip, and they will communicate using WiFi... put your PS2 games, in the 'mod chip' after plugging it in, and plug the 'mod controllers' into the 'mod chip' everything should work fine out of the box.
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After the launch of a Telstra mobile computing device, Mr Ballmer said the decision affected Xbox's business model, which relies on subsidising the hardware console in return for a royalty on every game sold.
The criminal law related to murder is bad for my business model as a hit man, which relies on accepting payment for people I have killed.
I put in my Vote for the Aussies withholding Fosters Beer.
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If the disk was damaged or faulty, you'd return it under warranty.
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To forbid the sale of anything Microsoft owns. Or at least make it look like they are going to. I bet Microsoft will be the one backpeddling then!
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Any law changes they make should be set to expire in a year, when Microsoft will have discontinued the X-Box and they'll be $49.95 at Toys-R-Us. I wonder if I will be able to interface my IntelPlay(R) Microscope to an X-Box?
I just saw the last shred of journalistic integrity go down the fucking drain here! XBox mod chip to play PS2 games my ass!
Why not just let the trolls post stories about free RAM with links to goatse.cx?
Slashdot Reader: Oh wow, free ram OH MY GOD THAT IS SO SICK MY EYES MY EYES THEY BURN ARrrrrr....
Damn it.
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1. Get scared about a modchip which might slightly reduce number of games sold.
2. Withdraw all X-Boxen
3. ???
4. Profit!!
Great PR move! Multi-billion dollar American company issuing threats against a soverign nation. I'm sure that having their legislature kow-tow to arrogant foreigners will go over really well with Australian voters. Ballmer needs a clue. Threats are GWB's job. Steve is just a song and dance guy.
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then there'll probably be panic buying of Xboxes before MS withdraws them from Australia.
Or maybe a panicked ignoring of Xboxes.
If you have a PS2 and can mod it to play Xbox games, you can probably build a time machine and jump into the future to play games in holodecks.
There are vast differences in the hardware. It's just a badly worded story.
Microsoft looses money on every xbox sold.
I wish that they'd "loose" some of that cash in my neighborhood. We've cleaned up most of the "loose" stuff we had around here.
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Nobody is claiming the intellectual property rights on behaving like a 3 year old ...
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Their "Chieft Software Architect" is a meglomaniacal control freak.
Now we'll have the australian hackers back working on Linux for PCs again instead! Woohoo!
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Ms is just looking for any excuse to stop selling the xbos these days huh?
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Best news I've heard today. Goodbye xbox.
Everyone who makes this argument right now is a flaming idiot. Unless you plan on buying every single game for a particular console, and judge each console totally on quantity, then there is no longer any cause to complain - ALL THREE CONSOLES HAVE GOOD GAMES ON THEM...THEY EVEN HAVE MORE THAN A FEW.
Here are some highlights from my current collection.
PS2: Final Fantasy X, GTA3, Gran Turismo 3 and several more that *I* like but may not be big-time favorites.
Gamecube: Rogue Leader, Pikmin, Animal Crossing, Beach Spikers, Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee, Super Smash Bros. Melee and more.
XBox: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dead to Rights, Morrowind (yes, it's PC too, so the hell what?), Jet Set Radio Future, Sega Soccer Slam, Project Gotham Racing and more -- not to mention that cross-platform games are generally nicer on the X than the others (in addition to being generally nicer on the GC than the PS2).
In short, all of you schmucks who keep yakking about how there are no good games for console need to help yourselves to a hot cup of shut the fuck up. While YOUR favorite game (GTA3 fans, Mario fans, Halo fans) might not be on a particular console that doesn't mean that there isn't anything else on it.
Maybe, but I don't see them going all the way as to more or less threaten the government of an entire country.
If it's supposed to be a threat then it's an incredibly mediocre one.
"Governments of the world, do as we say or we'll stop selling our games console!" Not exactly time for James Bond to leap into action.
I know voters are unpredictable at times, but it's hard to believe that the next election is going to be affected by outrage at the loss of Xboxes. MAYBE if there was direct legislation to prevent sales or something, and the election was already too close to call, but even then we're not talking about an important commodity or an engine of the economy, it's not even the market leader as a games console and games console are hardly life and death...
A threat to stop selling Windows would at least have enough impact to wake someone up. Even then such a blatant attempt at economic blackmail would be more likely to see the introduction of a compulsory licensing scheme or something (don't blurble about treaties, treatise get broken or side stepped over much less important issues than someone blatantly trying to blackmail your country, plus even the US Government's main reaction would be to wonder what the hell Microsoft were thinking). But this isn't WIndows, it's Xbox, and nobody in power will even care.
I can't believe it is supposed to be a threat, but admittedly I don't see what else the point was supposed to be.
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