| d21lewis said: I didn't read 10% of that but it seems impossible! I opened up my Wii and found it was nothing but a Texas Instruments calculater inside and some wires. How could they lose money? Also, people said they limited supply on purpose to create artificial demand. Those people were assholes. |
Which has always been a ridiculous idea. No company is going to throw away sales now on the chance that they MIGHT get more sales a month later. One in the hand is worth two in the bush, especially when dealing with money. Any business person knows that a consumer who can't buy X product now might just buy Y product instead of waiting.
On topic, that was an interesting article and I agree with most of it. Sony is committed to Playstation because, quite honestly, it's their best hope. Microsoft wants to use consumer electronics to drive use of their other products and services. I think some in Microsoft are committed to Xbox but I believe others see it as a means to an end. Those are very different perspectives, which is probably why the original XO was designed with Microsoft's goals in mind rather than what consumers wanted.
