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<digituk@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Zackman wrote:
>> Bill Cable wrote:
>>
>> >Um... yeah... how's about you not being the moron? Sure the xbox is
>> > designed in the US... but it's manufactured in other countries.
>>
>> Yeah, and so? Just means some company that owns a manufacturing plant
>> makes
>> a few bucks off the Xbox because they get paid to put the thing together.
>> All of the profits from sales and royalties ultimately come back to
>> Microsoft, not to some foreign company. Not that there ARE any profits on
>> Xbox sales, except in the negative hundreds of millions of dollars.
>>
>> > Last I checked, the Cell processor was developed in large part by IBM.
>> > And the graphics processor is by Nvidia - another American company.
>> > I'd say the PS3 is every bit as "American" as the xbox360.
>>
>> You'd say that, but you'd be wrong. All the profits from sales of PS3,
>> beyond whatever gets paid to the parts suppliers, goes back to Sony in
>> Japan. If the PS3 is a huge hit, IBM and NVIDIA benefit, but ultimately
>> it's
>> Sony's money.
Sony is a publicly traded company. if you want to enjoy the fruits of their
labours, buy stock. most companies 'profits' go into the company and/or to
shareholders. So is Microsoft. buy stock. if you're worried about the
loss of american jobs due to globalization, you'd be right to do so. but
buying an xbox is no different than buying a playstation, as parts are
thought of in one place, created in another, shipped by a company, sold by a
company, assembled by a kid in taiwan, and finally some profit goes through
to the maker of the hardware - but NOT from the sale of the unit, generally
from the sale of licensing software and selling external pieces
(controllers, etc). so now you have to boycott all the foreign companies
that make games too. if you want to save american industry, fire george
bush.
>>
>> > The guy's whole point was "Save jobs - buy the American xbox!!"
>>
>> You do have a better point than he does.
>>
>> > The only jobs the xbox is creating
>> > in America are design jobs.
>>
>> The Xbox's CPU and GPU were made by American companies. And as we all
>> know
>> software is where the money is. Several American companies have got
>> filthy
>> rich off the Xbox. And the PS2 of course.
>>
>> People should really stop buying the Grand Theft Auto games though
>> (designed
>> by Scottish development house) and Bioware games (filthy Canadians), and
>> of
>> course all Japanese games.
>>
>> > I'd wager the PS2, with it's vast 3rd
>> > party support, created many more software jobs in the US than the
>> > xbox.
>>
>> You'd have to assume so simply given the installed base of the two
>> machines,
>> yes.
>>
>> -Z-
>
> ATI is a Canadian Company not American - Chairman and founder is Kwok
> Yuen Ho.
>
> see:
http://www.ati.com/designpartners/media/bios/kyho.html
>