Awesome new console coming soon!

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Originally posted by A Black Falcon
Yeah, it only plays games, but that doesn't save money. The point is that to sell a PC for that cheap you've got to do something... Microsoft does it with the X-Box by eating a lot of money and by not using top-of-the-line parts. I'm sure that Apex will have to do the same thing -- lower-end videocards, less RAM, smaller hard drives, etc...

And remember there are two of them -- one for $300 and one for $400...

Of course they will. And consider why.

For one, most people still have SDTV. They are not, in any way, going to benefit from the thing having a super-duper video card, since 640x480 is what they're stuck with. Second, most mid-range videocards can handle just about any game out there, and if mass-produced for a vehicle such as this, costs can be reduced. There would be a standard set, the lack of which keeps parts for PCs high in price.

A top of the line machine from two years ago is more than sufficient to run just about anything, plus, the cost to manufacture such a machine today is probably about ten percent of what it was then.

The last thing you have to remember is that people who want the newest, bestest technology are exactly the people this thing ISN'T being marketed towards.

This thing probably won't take off, but the reasons for that are more plain: Marketing and commercial exposure.