I paid out of my pocket for my Commodore 64 but that investment set me up for life. I loved PEEKing and POKEing into memory if it broke anything.... I can't do this with this new crop of shit but God help me I will try.
POKE 214, 255...disables break and interprets every command as RUN.
Man, I used to love screwing with the computer demo units in malls with that one back in the day.
I would just go up to the demo unit and type:
10 PRINT "EAT A DICK"
20 GOTO 10
RUN
I had no creativity.
That's plenty creative (it's not like my childish mind was any better). You just needed to add that POKE statement and then walk away and watch the salespeople squirm trying to figure out how to get it off the screen in the front store window.
I can't remember anymore what I used to do...something like...
debug
-mov ax,13h
-int 10h
-xor ax,ax
-mov es,0xa000h
-mov cx,0xfa00h
-rep stos
-inc ax
-jmp <up four lines>
Ninendo made money on each and every Gamecube sold.
Back when I was a game dev, Nintendo invited us to their Redmond office to preview to Gamecube harsware about six months before release. We were told that the console would retail at $149 and they would be selling at a profit. When Sony and Microsoft released their hardware at much higher prices, Nintendo saw their opportunity to raise their prices to $200 and make even more money - so they did.
Back then the scuttlebutt was Sony and Microsoft needed to
So actually, it kind of is "water is wet" that the PS5 an new XBOX whateveritsnameis are sold at a loss, especially considering their performance. The interesting fact is that Ninendo apparently sells Switches at a profit.
IMHO, the price isn't low enough. Provide the console for free. Charge for the games. You'll probably get more customers that way.
Yeah of course they'd get more customers. Like me. I'd get one if it was free. I'd never pay $500 for one however. I may even end up buying a game or two at some point. But most likely, I'd just use it as an HTPC or install Linux on it at some point if someone finds a way. But one thing is sure, they'd loose money with me.
I need a console but they are nowhere to be found for MSRP. The real story here is that the price is too low, leading to scalping and supply problems.
There's a pandemic going on right now which has driven up gaming demand for obvious reasons. As people return to work (hopefully), that demand won't be quite as strong. In fact, it may not be anywhere near as strong. That's probably the first reason you can find plenty of consoles selling at MSRP, but completely out of stock.
Since the pandemic hit in the US early in 2020, and consoles weren't due to be released for at least another six months, console manufacturers had plenty of demand statistics to go b
One of the reasons I don't really like consoles is the high cost of games in the first place, and the inability to run older games. Maybe 5-7 years seems like an eternity to a teenager (key market demographic) but I regularly play games older than that. So I pay more for a PC (though I'm going to have one of those anyway so I'm really just paying for the graphics card upgrades), but I don't have to pay console subscription fees, I can wait for prices to go down on the games themselves, I can play my older
Subsidize razor to profit off blades (Score:3, Insightful)
Consoles are loss-leaders. It's commissions on game sales they really want.
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Consoles are loss-leaders. It's commissions on game sales they really want.
Exactly. I'm not sure how the concept of a loss-leader is so foreign here. Grocery stores have done this for decades to get you in the door.
IMHO, the price isn't low enough. Provide the console for free. Charge for the games. You'll probably get more customers that way.
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I paid out of my pocket for my Commodore 64 but that investment set me up for life. I loved PEEKing and POKEing into memory if it broke anything.... I can't do this with this new crop of shit but God help me I will try.
POKE 214, 255...disables break and interprets every command as RUN.
Man, I used to love screwing with the computer demo units in malls with that one back in the day.
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I would just go up to the demo unit and type:
10 PRINT "EAT A DICK"
20 GOTO 10
RUN
I had no creativity.
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I would just go up to the demo unit and type: 10 PRINT "EAT A DICK" 20 GOTO 10 RUN
I had no creativity.
That's plenty creative (it's not like my childish mind was any better). You just needed to add that POKE statement and then walk away and watch the salespeople squirm trying to figure out how to get it off the screen in the front store window.
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debug
-mov ax,13h
-int 10h
-xor ax,ax
-mov es,0xa000h
-mov cx,0xfa00h
-rep stos
-inc ax
-jmp <up four lines>
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Back when I was a game dev, Nintendo invited us to their Redmond office to preview to Gamecube harsware about six months before release. We were told that the console would retail at $149 and they would be selling at a profit. When Sony and Microsoft released their hardware at much higher prices, Nintendo saw their opportunity to raise their prices to $200 and make even more money - so they did.
Back then the scuttlebutt was Sony and Microsoft needed to
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So the fact that Sony lost money on this particular console is interesting and isn't "water is wet" triviality.
Sony and MS lost a lot of money on the PS3 and XBOX 360 too https://www.theguardian.com/te... [theguardian.com]
https://www.mcvuk.com/business... [mcvuk.com]
And apparently also on the PS4 and XBONE (but less) https://www.forbes.com/sites/e... [forbes.com]
https://www.independent.co.uk/... [independent.co.uk]
So actually, it kind of is "water is wet" that the PS5 an new XBOX whateveritsnameis are sold at a loss, especially considering their performance. The interesting fact is that Ninendo apparently sells Switches at a profit.
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Until someone figures out how to boot linux on it and people will have free hardware.
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IMHO, the price isn't low enough. Provide the console for free. Charge for the games. You'll probably get more customers that way.
Yeah of course they'd get more customers. Like me. I'd get one if it was free. I'd never pay $500 for one however.
I may even end up buying a game or two at some point. But most likely, I'd just use it as an HTPC or install Linux on it at some point if someone finds a way. But one thing is sure, they'd loose money with me.
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I need a console but they are nowhere to be found for MSRP. The real story here is that the price is too low, leading to scalping and supply problems.
There's a pandemic going on right now which has driven up gaming demand for obvious reasons. As people return to work (hopefully), that demand won't be quite as strong. In fact, it may not be anywhere near as strong. That's probably the first reason you can find plenty of consoles selling at MSRP, but completely out of stock.
Since the pandemic hit in the US early in 2020, and consoles weren't due to be released for at least another six months, console manufacturers had plenty of demand statistics to go b
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One of the reasons I don't really like consoles is the high cost of games in the first place, and the inability to run older games. Maybe 5-7 years seems like an eternity to a teenager (key market demographic) but I regularly play games older than that. So I pay more for a PC (though I'm going to have one of those anyway so I'm really just paying for the graphics card upgrades), but I don't have to pay console subscription fees, I can wait for prices to go down on the games themselves, I can play my older
Re: Subsidize razor to profit off blades (Score:2)
Wait, bait-and-switch schemes aren't illegal where you live?