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In alt.games.video.xbox MS Will Destroy Sony Computer Entertainment <msdest...@sonysucks.com> wrote:

> That is, if Microsoft gives the go-ahead to introduce it.   the reported
> $599 price-point is not too bad, IMHO.  If it does everything that a lowend
> PC, Xenon and Xbox can do. - that's less expensive than Sony's failed PSX
> machines which cost like $800-$1000 at introduction.

Not bad??  Are you kidding?  A low-end PC isn't very capable of playing 
many games - even those from just a few years ago - due to the limitations 
in their graphics architecture.

If I remember correctly, this is the thing that was going to be released a 
year or so after XBox360 comes out, right?  By that time, you'll see 
XBox1's for $50-100 at most, and Xbox360s (sans the, IMO, worthless PC 
part) for $200-300.  It doesn't make sense to spend $600 on this.  In 
fact, this whole thing doesn't make a whole lot of sense to begin with.  
Even if the XBox360 comes out at $400, and the Xbox1 stays at $150, that's 
still LESS than this thing.  Yes, I'm ignoring the PC part because it 
seems to me that sticking a PC (even a media PC) into a game console is 
just not a good idea.  The Media PC is designed to play music, and other 
media files, as well as record your favorite shows.  Do you think you'll 
be able to play a game while it's trying to record something?  I really 
doubt it.  Seems to me that this thing is just going to end up as another 
sad  example of why "Convergence" is a bad idea.