| FishyJoe said: What would you have to do to entice 25 million people to buy the console? To me this is too huge a factor to ignore. I get it's a hypothetical, but you can't just ignore the single biggest issue. |
Oh, I'm not in disagreement at all. That is basically impossible for the X360.
But not impossible for a console in general - see Wii and/or PS2.
I wanted to show what it would look like if the 360 sells as well as the Wii going forward, what it would look like financially.
One idea but farfetched due to many issues:
They can make the 360 like a cell phone:
Buy with a plan - unlimited games for $19.99 or $29.99 or whatever, partner with a cable company(ies) and get a free 360- everything included - free games, free online play.
extra revenue - download weapons, pics, themes, and other microcontent.
maybe some PAY PER PLAY SPECIAL GAMES or a combo of games. It's easy to be creative. Just like the numerous cel phone plans out there.
Just like a cel phone - you can buy an phone for $300 or $500 bucks, but free if you sign a 3 or 5 year contract. Same model with a cel phone manufacturer. YOu don't see many cel phone manufacturers selling their phones at a loss.
If MSFT decides they want to make gaming a "utility", this is where the big money lies. Not in selling individual consoles.
It can be implemented, just have to find the will and willing partners to do it. The future is the "network", just like the slogan.
Once you have that, games will explode as their will always be funds (kind of) to fund new games, while taking away some risk for the developers.
All games will be automatically new - eg. Madden 2008 - auto upgrade to 2009 - because of the guaranteed revenues and everybody can play with everybody, without worrying about "newer" versions - for those types of games.
My 2 cents.
