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darkpuppet,Nov 23 2005, 03:50 PM Wrote:

Oscar The Grouch,Nov 23 2005, 10:27 AM Wrote:10 times the cost??? You out to lunch man?

$500.00 for a xbox360 x 10 = $5000.00

You can probably build a good system for around 1300.00 that would be the same if not better than an xbox360.

Stupid rich kids.

Yeah I can plug my computer into a large screen tv and get probably better resolution and graphics.

Audio, I got 7.1 channel that can go easily into any home theater system.  I think the xbox360 only has 5.1 support?

Yeah consoles suck.
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hmm... let me price out a computer that would be the equivalent of the xbox 360...

cheap case with 350W PSU: $70
CPU: Intel Pentium Extreme edition, 3.2Ghz Dual Core with HT (similar, but still short of what the xbox 360 CPU could do).. $1,359
Hdd: 20Gb 2" Hdd: $70
SoundCard (included to make up for intel missing a CPU core: $80
Motherboard: $90
Memmory: 512Mb : $80 - giving this the benefit of the doubt since the MB and Memory couldn't deliver half the total bandwidth of the xbox 360
VideoCards x 2: $740
bluetooth: $44
Controller: $20
DVD drive: $26
OS : $130

oh, I'm sorry, it only costs $2709 for a computer that may be able to keep up with the xbox 360 today.

The xbox 360 doesn't have limited sound capabilities... it has optical out, and no dedicated sound card... one core could more than handle sound encoding with a single thread.

And, no, your computer probably wouldn't perform so well at HD resolutions as you think it would. The xbox360 would be able to anti-alias the sweet bejesus out of an HD signal, your graphics card would choke on it's own entrails.

To say that they're losing a lot of money on each xbox360 is no understatement... and when the PS3 comes out, with nearly a half dozen more cores, blu-ray, etc.. I don't think home computing will have caught up in terms of performance to dollar ratio.

And then you don't have to upgrade your console for 6 years.... it's one of the reasons I own a console.. great games for 6 years... and this is the 1st time the consoles look to kick the ass of home computers for performance in the 1st year of existence as well...
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YEAH BUT CAN YOUR XBOX360 LOOK AT BOOBIES ON THE INTERWEB?!?![B]


no, no it can't there for it loses. sorry