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It also raises cost by a large ammount, which is one reason many game companies gave as their reason for not making games for the GameCube
You are completely incorrect. Xbox game discs are proprietary. PS2 game discs are proprietary. That's why you can't just burn a DVD and play it in your Xbox or PS2. The only difference with Gamecube discs is the size, and in mass production they do not cost any more than Xbox or PS2 discs.
They actually lose money on the sales of the console units.
0 for 2. There have only been 2 consoles that have consistently been sold for a loss, the Dreamcast and the Xbox. Note that Sega went bankrupt trying to sustain that business model, and Microsoft has lost hundreds of millions of dollars with the Xbox. They've had ONE profitable quarter for the Xbox in the past 5 years. One. And that was only because of Halo 2. Every other quarter they lost more money than they took in. Microsoft can only afford it because they have money coming in for Windows and Office.
You are completely incorrect. Xbox game discs are proprietary. PS2 game discs are proprietary. That's why you can't just burn a DVD and play it in your Xbox or PS2. The only difference with Gamecube discs is the size, and in mass production they do not cost any more than Xbox or PS2 discs.
They actually lose money on the sales of the console units.
0 for 2. There have only been 2 consoles that have consistently been sold for a loss, the Dreamcast and the Xbox. Note that Sega went bankrupt trying to sustain that business model, and Microsoft has lost hundreds of millions of dollars with the Xbox. They've had ONE profitable quarter for the Xbox in the past 5 years. One. And that was only because of Halo 2. Every other quarter they lost more money than they took in. Microsoft can only afford it because they have money coming in for Windows and Office.
