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Microsoft plans to charge license fee for Xbox 360 peripherals
Lead Head:
--- Quote ---Manufacturers seeking to release peripherals for the Xbox 360 will have to pay royalties to Microsoft on each unit sold, with a new security system on the console preventing the connection of unlicensed devices. As a result, only Microsoft-authorised joypads, steering wheels and other such devices will be released, according to a abridged version of a new contract between the software giant and peripheral maker Mad Catz which was released as part of a Mad Catz financial filiing this week.
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I think that is typical MS behavior. I wonder how many peripherals will be made for the 360?, full story here
Aloone_Jonez:
Hopefuly this will put people off buying an Xbox 369 because it will lack 3rd party peripherals. I really don't se how they can benefit from this tactic.
worker201:
Unless it gets cracked in the first week like the last Xbox did...
Jenda:
I will never, ever, touch that piece of crap. I would like to say I will NEVER use any MS SW anymore, but I will first have to try out Wine - and that's waiting for Nextra to connect me to the internet via ADSL. Dialup just sucks sooo bad...
skyman8081:
Mad Catz controllers will break if you look at them funny. trufax.
I'm kinda glad, because 99.95% of third party controllers are utter dog-shit. The 1st party ones are better.
Hell, the original, big, design is the Model M of controllers.
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