My totally sane idea: ($599 dorrars, pweese) Take a page from the cell phone company business plan. Make the system insanely powerful but make users subscribe to something like XBL if they want to buy the console for $200. With them as XBL customers, you bill them periodically ($5-$6 a month or whatever). With them as Live users, you're likely to influence them into buying more online content. This way, your console is affordable, powerful, your online service is even more of a necessity, and everybody wins.
And then, my mind went insaner.








