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The 360 Is Too Cheap?
The always interesting GamerDad site is running a 'LongShot' column wondering if perhaps the 360 wasn't expensive enough? From the article: "The beginning of a console generation has typically been for those with deep pockets or an unhealthy hardcore jones for videogames. These people are willing to smack down big bucks for the latest technology. The price of 360 was too low to keep the launch confined to that group and it was a big mistake in my opinion. With a higher price tag, Microsoft would have made more money, made sure sellouts wouldn't have lasted for months after Christmas and still sold through all the units they had to sell before the holiday. The demand for a new system was far higher than most people anticipated, especially given the early demise of the original Xbox, a system that will probably be gone from store shelves by February 2007."
"The beginning of a console generation has typically been for those with deep pockets..."
Does this man realize how much of a bourgeois elitist he sounds like? "Been for those with deep pockets" as opposed to those who do not, who should not be allowed to have modern forms of entertainment. They should just be allowed to have their poverty and that should be enough for them right?
Slate had a whack at this a very long time ago.