| zero129 said: Exactly!, One of the main reasons it never took of was cost. Back then it was just too expensive to build a PC-Console hyped that could compete with the PS2 and not lose lots of money. And since the manafactures that would of been making the console knew this at the time and since it was ok for Sony to lose money on making the PS2 since they where making it back with fees from game makers etc something that just wasnt possible for the guys that would of been making Xbox if they had to go with the original plan so it was just too much risk with not enough return as can be seen with how much money the original xbox did end up losing. Anyway now times have changed a lot i guess. PC manafactures now have no problem building console like pc's just look at the steambox's and with the prices of pc hardware coming down so fast theey will soon be able to build systems that can easy match the perfermance+price of the X1 and PS4. And people have shown they dont mind taking out contracts to own expensive things so i guess for higher tare models this is something manafactures could do too is follow the phone model. |
Microsoft becoming the steam equivalent would have been their main goal. But they choose to ignore it. Gabe newell went to MS, EA and many more with his idea of digital distribution in 2002. None helped it. Now its a juggernaut. MS sould be ready to slowly transition from console to PC if they think they have all the good ideas.
