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

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Machiavellian said:

LivingMetal said:

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.

This seems theoretically possible.  But, it would be a significant change of direction for MS.  They've been moving into hardware more and more over the last decade, and they've had huge successes with the Surface and Xbox brands.