{"id":336,"date":"2005-08-09T23:45:48","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T21:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/wp_1\/?p=336"},"modified":"2005-08-10T11:05:47","modified_gmt":"2005-08-10T09:05:47","slug":"xbox-modding-threatens-ms-business-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2005\/08\/xbox-modding-threatens-ms-business-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Modding Threatens MS Business Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modders are threatening the business model of selling underpriced consoles and breaking even with high-cost content (i.e. games).<\/p>\n<p>A U.K. court has convicted a UK resident, <em>sending a message to gamers to quit tinkering with Microsoft\u2019s console<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The man sold Xbox consoles fitted with a 200 GB hard drive and 80 pre-installed games on his web site for \u20a4380 [&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The coming Xbox360 is eagerly awaited by modders galore, &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[&#8230;] Microsoft can\u2019t afford to ignore the actions of the hard-core gaming set. [&#8230;] \u201cmodders\u201d are eager to get the specs on Xbox 360, to be released at the end of this year.<br \/>\nBecause the costs for games and hardware for the 360 are significantly higher, Microsoft has that much more to lose to pirates and hackers. The machines will also be more sophisticated and higher powered<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redherring.com\/Article.aspx?a=12634&#038;hed=Xbox+%E2%80%98Modder%E2%80%99+Convicted\">Red Herring &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modders are threatening the business model of selling underpriced consoles and breaking even with high-cost content (i.e. games). A U.K. court has convicted a UK resident, sending a message to gamers to quit tinkering with Microsoft\u2019s console. The man sold Xbox consoles fitted with a 200 GB hard drive and 80 pre-installed games on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11,4,6],"tags":[35,15,26,187,43,219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}