It seemed like a no-brainer for Microsoft: Use its massive software market share to win over game players to its Xbox console. It could sell a powerful, graphics-enhanced computer for about $180 and sit back as the dollars rolled in from royalties for every Xbox game sold. The plan to practically give away its Xbox hardware would be offset by all the money it would make on selling software games. What Microsoft didn’t count on was the fervor of game fanatics intent on hacking the Xbox hardware to get a nearly free computer.
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The Agony and the Ecstasy of Hacking the Xbox
Posted by: Jack M. Germain December 27, 2003 10:54 AMIt seemed like a no-brainer for Microsoft: Use its massive software market share to win over game players to its Xbox console. It could sell a powerful, graphics-enhanced computer for about $180 and sit back as the dollars rolled in from royalties for every Xbox game sold. The plan to practically give away its Xbox hardware would be offset by all the money it would make on selling software games. What Microsoft didn’t count on was the fervor of game fanatics intent on hacking the Xbox hardware to get a nearly free computer.