| kowenicki said: You cant underestimate the loyalty that LIVE and associated Achievement points will have provided. |
I can assure you that not many would be "dragged" if the next-box costs $600 at launch. Some thing trump whatever brand recognition exist. Brandname is only responsible for 20% of customers in a best case scenario especially in our industry. Most people still evaluate everything thats out there each and every time. It would be the actual games who sales are more dependent on "name" than the consoles themselves. However, even in the case of the actual games, fans would still cease to purchase the latest title if it sucks in their opinion.
"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)
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It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler
