It's no wonder Nintendo rakes in the cash, what with all the Super NES games for sale on the GBA. And with the DS, Nintendo has entered a new era of retro mining, allowing it to sell Mario 64 again as Mario 64 DS. With the upcoming Revolution, Nintendo has announced that you'll be able to download more classic titles from the 64-era, as well as play Gamecube minidiscs. Nintendo's greatest asset is their own back catalog of good games. In contrast, the XBox has a lot of titles, but the only true classics that MS controls that I can think of are the Halos, and FPS is a notriously quick expiring genre.
Anyhow, if MS is trying to shut out the competition then jack up prices, then they're on a fool's mission. If they jack up prices for developing on the XBox, then developers will just jump ship to the next console system to come along. Users, in turn, are used to buying new consoles every 4 or 5 years anyway, so it's hard to leverage dominance from one console cycle to the next. The most they can hope for is that the 360 breaks it competitors, they have a healthy profit for two or three years, and then a new console is released by someone and the cycle starts over. It's not really a good strategy.
by Carl — Nov 03
Anyhow, if MS is trying to shut out the competition then jack up prices, then they're on a fool's mission. If they jack up prices for developing on the XBox, then developers will just jump ship to the next console system to come along. Users, in turn, are used to buying new consoles every 4 or 5 years anyway, so it's hard to leverage dominance from one console cycle to the next. The most they can hope for is that the 360 breaks it competitors, they have a healthy profit for two or three years, and then a new console is released by someone and the cycle starts over. It's not really a good strategy.