Nintendownsmii on 10 January 2008
When I was talking about small profit margins I was talking about PC vendors (dell, compaq, etc.) It is fortuidous that that it was not clear enough because you actually made a good point NOT to go to a standard. That is right now the consoles are quite powerful and they are able to be sold at anything less than the 3-8 hundred dollars it takes to assemble them because of the fact that by not having a unified structure the manufaturers are able to charge a liscensing fee.
In other words in order for a manufacturer to make a profit off the hardware we will be sold systems that are at a higher price than the ones we are seeing now.
