* Posts by Dick Wad

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Mr. WebTV gives games thin-client treatment

Dick Wad

How are they going to make money?

Doesn't the system require a back-end to render this all? Regardless of things like latency and bandwisth usage, in order to play, they have to have another computer on the backend to render the game. How does that get paid for? Obviously not off the margins of the console. So how much is the subscription? Can they really make money over and above the bandwidth charges to drive the things? Doesn't really seem like a very sound business plan to me.