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DonFerrari said:

JEMC said:

And then we're coming to the "how cheap can they sell it" point of all this venture. How much are they willing to lose with the hardware to break in the market with as many units as possible while trying to recoup some of those loses with the software? I mean, Sony and Msoft have the Live and PSN subscriptions to help them lowe their price if they find it necessary, but Google doesn't have any of that either... at least yet.

In any case, time will tell.

Shall we pray for it to crash and burn or that they bring even more good games? I chose the second knowing the first will happen.

I wish them success and I hope they bring good games. But, if they want to have success disturbing the market buying studios (maybe even publishers?) left and right causing the market to fragment even more, then I hope they fail and burn.

haxxiy said:

JEMC said:

And then we're coming to the "how cheap can they sell it" point of all this venture. How much are they willing to lose with the hardware to break in the market with as many units as possible while trying to recoup some of those loses with the software? I mean, Sony and Msoft have the Live and PSN subscriptions to help them lowe their price if they find it necessary, but Google doesn't have any of that either... at least yet.

In any case, time will tell.

I don't think because a company is super huge that they'll necessarily use their economic power to subsidize their products. MS didn't do that with the Xbox for instance. In fact, quite the oposite. These companies are their size exactly because their margins of profits are so massive, and shareholders would find it somewhat strange to join a market where there isn't the chance to do so.

So I welcome the competition, and hope for good things in the future (though failure is the most likely scenario).

That's true, but it also depends on how aggressive they are and which are their ultimate goals. After all, those companies also got to be what they are because they weren't affraid to bet big on their projects.