Why the Scorpio will sell for no more than $399 (if its 6tflops).

[Machiavellian]

LivingMetal said:

Machiavellian said:

Yeah, the Xbox is not mobile but it does deliver their XBL service to the living room which he said is important.  MS is a big company that produce a lot of products.  MS saying that mobile and service are their number one business does not mean they suddently drop windows, keyboard and mice, Server software, Office etc.  

Yeah, but an infrastructure/ecosysem called "Xbox" and a game console are two different things.  Not trying to split hairs, but we have to really see where their console efforts and direction is going after witnessing the success/failure of the Scorpio.

With Apple, Sony and Google trying to vie for a strong present within the living room, I would be hard press to believe MS will just give up and throw in the towell.  The Xbox brand is strong and they still need hardware.  Now if MS just create a platform called Xbox with software and hardware specs so third party manufactures can make basically PC solution ala Steam OS then I can see that happening.