QUOTE(Jonolche @ Aug 29 2006, 05:57 PM)
Not to demote you or anything, but reaper your wrong (at least in my view-point). Its true that M$ will make more money (physical money) on games, than they would make on a 360 console. But most of that money that they make off the games, goes to the devolopers of the games. For example, you buy a $60 game, the devolopers of that game get $40 and M$ gets $20. So M$ would have to sell around 12 games to make the ammount of money that they would get for a single xbox 360 console. Also, I immagine that M$ is happy when you void your warrenty, because that is the day they stop paying for tech-support for your xbox 360 console.
Now for the whole idea of this toppic is absurbed. It's impossible (well not impossable, but deffintal unethical)for M$ to detect that the xbox 360's DVD drive has been moddified. They would have to phisically come to your house and take out the dvd drive to figure out that the firmware has been tampered with.
Your point of view is seriously flawed. MS loses money on every console they make. For instance, lets say it costs $300 to produce each Xbox 360 core console, now MS can't sell it to walmart for $300 cause walmart wont sell it for no profit. So MS sells the console to walmart for $225. This enables walmart to sell the console for a $75 dollar profit. But how does that work out for MS? They take a $75 loss per console. They have to make that money up in accessories, games, xbox live. They do this because they want market saturation, more people will buy the console if it is cheaper. And since it does most people no good to have a console without accessories and games, they make the money back up on games.
Example
1. 1 guy owns 10 consoles
2. 10 people each own 1 console
Which is better? #2 is better, the 10 people are going to buy far more accessories and games than the 1 guy. MS sold the same amount of consoles, but made more money in #2
QUOTE(OffRoader23 @ Aug 29 2006, 07:23 PM)
Banned??? WTF. I use a legit account, and it is banned? That is TOTAL crap if that's what it is. Me and a friend are having the same problem. We use legit accounts, and if our X-Box 360's got banned, them I am fucking pissed. It started happening on Friday of last week, at the exact same time too, we thought it was the ISP, and I tried it on multiple ISPs and it's the same thing as that video. I don't use hacked firmware. I PAY for my account, and if I am banned then MS is going to get mother fucking killed.
do you use hacked firmware?
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