Rim Semiconductor Company (fka RSMI)

[GrooveMaster]

C'mon now Spoke I'm not trying to discredit you. I like to argue you know that. I do believe that maybe we have not been reading the same things. I'll stand by my point that Microsoft is more than a software company at this stage in the game.

After rereading your post I do have to disagree with this statement.

Thought not particularly relevant, it does not take a great deal of sophisticated thought to understand the reasoning behind the Xbox for Microsoft. If you have followed them at all - read the press reseases, listened to conference calls - you would know that the Xbox hardware was intended to substantially increase Microsoft's penetration into the game software market. As I said in a previous post, the purpose of Xbox was not to make money on hardware, but to increase software sales.

This is incorrect as Xbox's initial slam was there was no games to play on it. The games really came after the Xbox. Most of the games are made by others......not Microsoft.