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"Microsoft Wants X-Box to Fail"

I believe Microsoft knows the X-Box will fail, So I hear you say why are they wasting all their time and money?
Once the X-Box fails Microsoft will no longer be an all conquering corporate giant or at least that will be the perception after all the media coverage surrounding it's fail. Don't worry about poor Bill though even though his console may flop, he'll sell enough to X-Boxes to pay the debts and hey if he doesn't why will he care? he'll still be the richest man in the world!

What are you on about Rik-Rik, it doesnt cost Microsoft much more to put a DVD drive into the X-box than a CD drive.

Besides which in order to use the DVD drive in the X-box as a movie player youll have to by Microsofts remote control which could cost £20 - £30 (Thats a guess, no official price yet) that should easily cover the extra cost. Not to mention the saving on the cost in materials for producing a game on one DVD as oppossed to 8 CDs!

Most homes in the UK do not have a DVD player yet.

Look at Sony, they had no pedigree in the games industry and still overtook both Sega and Nintendo by literally throwing money into the project as a marketing exercise. Sony made themselves 'cool' by releasing the PS1 and Microsoft want to do the same thing but at least they have released some excellent games (AOE, Motorcross madness etc.) And have gone out and brought the company writing probably the best game that was going to grace the PC in Halo for launch. There is no way that Microsoft will fail.

Also talking about the OS is not needed, you forget the Dreamcats has a windows CE OS and I believe none of the launch games used it which maybe the case for the launch titles for the XBOX and the price, you try and buy a PC for £350 that will run Giants!

The x-box does not a DVD player. The majority of people that are buying the x-box are buying it for the games and not the DVD player. Besides most of the households in the UK already have a DVD player.
It would make Mircrosofts life more easier by keeping costs down.
Microsoft also needs to get more exclusive developers so they can work closely with them to make the games good.

Hiya

I think the XBOX will NEVER fail!!!!!!!!!!!

We should support the X-box as MS are new entrants to the console market and Sony are getting arrogant. Microsoft I think will have done their sums and at first will make a loss. All consoles that sell for under about £350-400 make a loss but look at Sony, the PS sold about 55 million to date. That would amount to huge losses but as there is a large second hand market there is always more games sold. I reckon that a PS that has been traded in will through all of its owners have had about 50 games bought for it new. So that would make up for the huge losses incurred.
Biggles

Microsoft were never really planning to release that early, you can tell that they wish they had more time. This week they announced that the DVD drives will be provided by Philips, as Philips can easily supply all the drives Microsoft could possibly need.

Philips are Europes leader in home electronics, and the inventos of optical technology such as CDs and DVDs so the drive should be spot on.

Thats why Im saying Microsoft will lose more than predicted per console.

Funny thing is is that as soon as Microsoft announced their official release date at e3, Nintendo straight away announced that they would release it 3 days earlier in America and for $100 cheaper. Microsoft cannot bring their launch further forward because some of it's components aren't finished.

Windows is a poor OS, best described as a Beached Whale. An OS should be small fast and functional, Windows is none of those things. However the X-box wont be held back by Windows so it may do well.

Microsoft will be losing alot of money selling the X-box, maybe even more than £150 per console as they didnt plan to have to launch so early but have been forced to by Nintendos sharp moves.

The X-box will have to do well for Microsoft to recover its investment.

I read that the X-box looses $150 for every console they sell. They only make their money back through games sold. It is estimated that Microsoft will need three years before it even breaks even and that's only is the console sells well.

Other than windows and unix there are no other Operating systems that run as well on the PC windows may be the best but it is nowhere near perfect.