Comments on: Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Strategies http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/microsofts-xbox-360-strategies/ A premier personal finance blog, established 2003. Within, Flexo discusses his own experiences with money, and he and other authors comment on a wide range of personal finance topics. Wed, 23 May 2012 16:48:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/microsofts-xbox-360-strategies/comment-page-1/#comment-1217 Steve Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:51:26 +0000 http://wp.consumerismcommentary.com/?p=647#comment-1217 Xbox, Playstation, GameCube - they all play to the infinitely growing impatience among young people. Games are offering less "game," a higher price, and flash over substance. Parents buy their kids overpriced merchandise because "everybody has one," and the need to shut Jonny's whining up with a game is strong. Where PC's give you lasting titles like "Civilization," you're lucky to get two weeks out of a console title, and more, games are made easier and easier by cheat codes and the like so that kids will run out and spend upwards of $50 on the sequel with even more flash. All the Xbox 360 titles have been unimpressive; indeed, the graphics look like the old Xbox, and just when a console starts to shine - and this happens after a console's been out for some years - they put out the next one. PS2, for example, is offering some of its best games now because developers have finally grasped the console: they know how to make a good game. Alas, the time is to scrap the old and lay down $500+ for the new in that fruitless search for satisfaction. Go outside and throw the ball around. Xbox, Playstation, GameCube – they all play to the infinitely growing impatience among young people. Games are offering less “game,” a higher price, and flash over substance. Parents buy their kids overpriced merchandise because “everybody has one,” and the need to shut Jonny’s whining up with a game is strong. Where PC’s give you lasting titles like “Civilization,” you’re lucky to get two weeks out of a console title, and more, games are made easier and easier by cheat codes and the like so that kids will run out and spend upwards of $50 on the sequel with even more flash. All the Xbox 360 titles have been unimpressive; indeed, the graphics look like the old Xbox, and just when a console starts to shine – and this happens after a console’s been out for some years – they put out the next one. PS2, for example, is offering some of its best games now because developers have finally grasped the console: they know how to make a good game. Alas, the time is to scrap the old and lay down $500+ for the new in that fruitless search for satisfaction. Go outside and throw the ball around.

]]> By: Akhil Jain http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/microsofts-xbox-360-strategies/comment-page-1/#comment-1216 Akhil Jain Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:45:19 +0000 http://wp.consumerismcommentary.com/?p=647#comment-1216 Thats no big deal, as the games are so expensive. Microsoft can always cover the cost in games licenses. Its like getting the cellphone for free (which is also sold at loss) when you sign up for 1 year agreement. Thats no big deal, as the games are so expensive. Microsoft can always cover the cost in games licenses. Its like getting the cellphone for free (which is also sold at loss) when you sign up for 1 year agreement.

]]> By: Hazzard http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/microsofts-xbox-360-strategies/comment-page-1/#comment-1215 Hazzard Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:40:51 +0000 http://wp.consumerismcommentary.com/?p=647#comment-1215 I'm going to sit this one out. I bought the first Xbox and really didn't use it all that much. I am looking forward to playing it at a friends house though. I find it really interesting how such a simple thing as controlling supply like this can really create a frenzy. I suppose it doesn't hurt that they timed the release right around the "frenzy" month before Christmas. Hazzard <a href="http://www.everybodylovesyourmoney.com" rel="nofollow"> <a>">http://www.everybodylovesyourmoney.com</a></a> I’m going to sit this one out. I bought the first Xbox and really didn’t use it all that much. I am looking forward to playing it at a friends house though.

I find it really interesting how such a simple thing as controlling supply like this can really create a frenzy. I suppose it doesn’t hurt that they timed the release right around the “frenzy” month before Christmas.
Hazzard

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