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Getting All 1,700 Parts of the Xbox 360 to Market
Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "Microsoft is hoping its Xbox 360 will further the company's goal to 'link the Web and entertainment of all forms in consumers' living rooms,' the Wall Street Journal reports, but 'one manufacturing misstep -- a shortage of graphics chips or a recalled hard drive -- could derail those ambitions and drag Microsoft's unprofitable videogame business even deeper into the red.' The WSJ traces the 1,700 parts that go into the device through the supply chain -- from two southern China factories, Rotterdam, and on to Toledo, Memphis, and ultimately, retailers in the U.S. -- and looks at what could go wrong along the way."
Now if it was Sony, the 1701st part, rather than being something Star-Trekky, would be DRM.
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
Its not, it just an advertisement for MS disguised as 'news', heading into the holiday season, published by the Wall Street Journal and submitted to Slashdot on a slow news day because it contained the words Xbox-360.
I just don't see how they can keep out of the red, when they're paying off slashdot editors to post every trivially relevant XBOX 360 article. Come on we're getting about 2 crapping XBOX 360 stories a day. The 360 is not revolutionary, it's hardly evolutionary. Higher poly count, higher resolution woooooo. Nothing new, nothing particularly interesting. Who the hell really cares anymore?
Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF