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S.T.A.G.E. on 21 December 2012
slowmo said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 said:
MrBubbles said:
being nice to apple


Yes, I couldn't agree more. 


They werent nice to Apple, they took Halo from them.


No they bought Bungie as Apple were too cheap to invest in them.  Although you could class it as a mistake letting Bungie have their independence.  


Bungie never wanted independence. Apple wasnt too cheap, they just wanted Halo and saw through the early phases of its development without believing bungie needed to be owned to be furnished with the funds for a top tier game that would put apple on the map as a game pc.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 21 December 2012

Kinect for the core campaign was also pretty bad.



vfguy on 22 December 2012

-RROD
-Underutilizing Rare
-Dropping Game Room support (for me personally, I doubt it had much effect on overall sales)



007BondAgent on 22 December 2012

- Rare
- Letting the PS3 Catch up
- No New IP's Anymore
- Ads on Dashboard
- Windows 8
- Windows Phone
- Surface



babuks on 22 December 2012

Hastily coming to the market was the biggest mistake for them causing RRoD.

@ OP,

If Xbox is 'mighty' with 70 million sales, then what would you call PS2, DS, PS1 or the Wii?



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vfguy on 22 December 2012

70 million is pretty might from only Europe and North America.



S.T.A.G.E. on 22 December 2012
007BondAgent said:
- Rare
- Letting the PS3 Catch up
- No New IP's Anymore
- Ads on Dashboard
- Windows 8
- Windows Phone
- Surface



Microsoft couldn't have stopped Sony from catching up. Microsoft was mooching off of Sonys marketshare.



bonkers555 on 22 December 2012

R R O fuckin D. I went threw two brand new system with it and I still have nightmares about it. lol



My Video Games Collection/Set-Up.

dallas on 22 December 2012
selnor said:
dallas said:
Windows 8 is almost universally unpopular. Bing has been steadily losing $$$$. The RROd-box.

MSFT in general concentrates on too many projects at once. They should put more wood behind fewer arrows.

Bing is a misconception. It wasnt designed to make money on its own. As a sole thing Bing loses money. Even if they are gaining marketsare on Google year by year. Soon it will be profitable on its own. 

But Bing was designed as more than a search engine from the get go. Something that was part of an ecosystem. Bing is already making MS money through its intended purposes.

They've leveraged it in just about every service or product that they offer and continue to expand its reach and innovate on its technologies... Do they make money on Bing itself? No. Do they make money on things powered by Bing? Absolutely.


Bing can sand does funnel users by say putting ads out to redirect users or as search results, but that's still a REALLY expensive way to advertise.  It lost quite a bit, so it just wasn't worth it at all.



Soleron on 22 December 2012

Pissing off all the OEMs by making a Surface tablet and selling it in Best Buy, without the $100 fee they charge the OEMs for WinRT.

This will have a SERIOUS effect on the Windows monopoly, just watch.