10-12-2005, 12:58 AM
geo85 Wrote:In any case whether M$ will try to monopolize that or not I think its totally obvious at this point that M$ is just trying to turn this into another great market to suck dry. They have no interest in gaming just how much money they can leech off gamers. I am talking about M$ not the game developers.
But honestly I expect them to pull some dirty tricks like making full backwards compatibility not included and then you have to download files off xbox live to your hard drive to get it and M$ charging for that download, or including functions in model 2 or 3 of the 360 that are not included in the first model that makes everyone with model one furious.
Kind of like that mid 90s case where they sold bad copies of a ver of dos and then made everyone with that bad copy pay to download the fixer file. I wouldnt put anything past them.
Well, you can replace M$ with any other company and your story will still be correct. In terms of money leechers sony and M$ are about equal in my eyes. I personally do like what M$ is doing with the market, mainly the worldwide release of games and the 360 has made me a happy man comming from europe. That gives me a feeling that they DO care about our market and I applaud them for that move.
Downloading files to play backwards compatible games I can see happening. Paying for it? No way. They're not that stupid. They know gamers already paid for the game. So far they are doing everything perfect. Price is good, release date is good, Live looks good, games look good. If it will be enough to beat sony I don't think so but they are not the evil in the gaming world that they were when they started in this business.