On Thursday 25 August 2005 01:06 pm, onelabs@onelabs.com wrote:
The reality here is that you'd be building a new game platform and selling it at a loss (the same as Sony and M$) if you're trying to match their performance. In order to make a profit you'll have to sell games and accessories with enough profit margin to recoup your investments in the consoles.
IMHO, your largest hurdle will probably be getting the funding to back your console business and attracting game developers to gamble on the investment.
-Bari
Actually, I 'm not really focused on doing that now. All I have to do is put up a site with downloads and instructions so any small business can put it together in half an hour or around that time. It's not my interest to make any money off this. Unless I put a donations thing on the site.
The goal is make it so any one with an all ready established business can download ISOs, the flash and buy their own hardware. Flash what ever mother board LinuxBIO supports, put together what ever hardware they want and install the OS. The only thing that would cost them any thing is the hardware.
The controllers all ready exist. I saw some PC controllers that looked like xbox controllers. Those should work out great.
This console would basicaly just be a cheap PC with a slimed down Linux Distro designed to act like the xbox OS and have LinuxBIOS so it boots up fast like the xbox.