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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."
They are not "buying a law". They are simply saying that the law is currently unacceptable to them. If the law remains as it is, they won't sell the X-box in Australia.
You don't have a God-given right to an X-box. Microsoft are under no obligation to provide you with one. Now, as has been said many times before, Microsoft lose money on the hardware and hope to recoup it on the software. I think that they are perfectly right to stop X-boxes being sold somewhere that they can be easily modified to play pirate copies of games.
Please don't start all that "fair use backup copy" shit with me. There's only one reason why you want your X-box to play copied games, and it's piracy. If the disk was damaged or faulty, you'd return it under warranty.
Wrong!
Lets see. Here's a list of upcoming Xbox exclusives. Exactly the same count as PS2. Which also has 38. Again, these are EXCLUSIVES.
Lets not forget DOA3 and Halo. Halo alone is worth the price of the console right there. If I had to choose between Halo and 50 PS2 games, the choice would be clear.
Again, I'm not defending piracy or Microsoft. I just tried to point out that Xbox is not a bad console as some of the users make it out to be.