Juicy rumor alert: Microsoft may allow third-party Xbox 360s
- June 25th, 2008
- 4 Comments
Here’s today’s hottest unsubstantiated rumor: Microsoft may allow third-parties to create hardware that plays Xbox 360 games. Boing Boing has extrapolated that to mean stand-alone third-party devices that just so happen to play Xbox 360 games.
For example, Company A could create a Blu-ray player with built-in Xbox 360 compatibility. Depending on how that’s marketed, as a video game system with Blu-ray capabilities or vice-versa, that could well succeed. Lord knows the PS3 is just finding its rhythm, if not a little later than expected.
But again, ’tis merely a rumor for now. Now let’s all watch Germany tear apart Turkey.
Yannick Desjardins (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Funny how this reminds me of PC gaming.
Luke Noel-Storr (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Console manufacturers have done this in the past, and it’s never been a success.
The Panasonic Q
The Amstrad MegaPC
As consoles tend to be sold at a loss (or with very tight profit margins), with the main income coming from licensing on the games, 3rd party consoles just can’t be priced competitively to the 1st party ones, as the 3rd parties don’t see any of the licensing fees from the games.
Paul G (Who am I?)
2 months ago
When did the xbox360 jump the shark?
toggz (Who am I?)
2 months ago
So the xbox360 is gonna go the way of the 3DO… ahh yes.. because that was such a huge success.. hmm no wait…