Follow me for a second.
I just had a really quick day dream about the X360 launch. Say they put the thing out there (with the hard drive) for $300. The thing's obviously powerful with some great hardware in it, so let's assume that Microsoft sells it at a pretty significant loss (the amount doesn't really matter).
What if Nintendo or Sony were to pay to have its fanboys flood stores to buy as many as possible, collect them all, dissect them, and then sell the components for scrap? Assuming they could sell the guts for a couple hundred dollars per unit, they'd have a really cost-effective way of ruining the competition's ability to sell their hardware at a loss effectively.
Is this against the law or rules?
The idea reminds me of when Nintendo said no to rental chains, so Blockbuster had its employees go for game runs at TRU.
I just had a really quick day dream about the X360 launch. Say they put the thing out there (with the hard drive) for $300. The thing's obviously powerful with some great hardware in it, so let's assume that Microsoft sells it at a pretty significant loss (the amount doesn't really matter).
What if Nintendo or Sony were to pay to have its fanboys flood stores to buy as many as possible, collect them all, dissect them, and then sell the components for scrap? Assuming they could sell the guts for a couple hundred dollars per unit, they'd have a really cost-effective way of ruining the competition's ability to sell their hardware at a loss effectively.
Is this against the law or rules?
The idea reminds me of when Nintendo said no to rental chains, so Blockbuster had its employees go for game runs at TRU.
