New XBox 360 retails at around 299 dollars, not 500 dollars... sure, still not cheap...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 6:37 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Article about New Program for Creating XBox 360 Games > Hi Liam, > So true. I would bet not many blind gamers have a $500 Xbox laying > around, and the initial up front costs alone would be harmful to any > accessible games dev market that could be carved out for it. > For that price one could go out and buy a cheap Compaq or HP computer > from Wal-mart for playing games which defeats the cost of a Xbox which > is only for games. > > > Liam Erven wrote: >> the x box is expensive though. especially the 360. Me and one of my >> sighted gamer friends were discussing this last night, and neither of us >> could understand why someone would plop down 500 bucks for the XBox to >> take >> a gamble like that. I could understand if the xBox offers more that we >> could do besides play some games, but I'd much rather save my money and >> play >> windows based stuff. Though, who knows. maybe down the road something >> will >> open up that will let us use Xbox live or get auditory feedback about >> other >> things. I just would never spend the serious cash on that. I'd be >> interested to see how many blind folks own a 360? _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
