Guest said:
Not interested.
I don't like playing games on a computer with keyboard and mouse. I prefer to play my games on my comfy couch in a social setting with my surround sound system and flat screen TV.
gwailo247 said:
We should remember that with their current promotion, MS is/was giving away an Xbox 360 away with a PC purchase, so obviously taking the next step and cutting out the loss leader production costs out of giving players a physical console and just making it virtual makes sense. The profit is in the games anyway.
This is very very smart marketing on the part of Microsoft.They know that people will not be as eager to upgrade to 8 having just bought 7, so by throwing in stuff like this they're going to get people to upgrade. I'm sure there will also be special promotions with bundled Xbox 360 games as well.
TrekExpert said:
This move does make sense from Microsoft's prospective. With the console being subsidized the real money Microsoft makes is through the $10 they get from each Xbox game sold. If anything they could make more money by selling less consoles. An Xbox live subscription is required which is also a large source of their revenue. My only concern is that game developers will cease to make PC versions of the games as they believe it is no longer necessary. If this were the case all games would be stuck with the dumbed down graphics of the console.