*bleu-ocelot* on 12 August 2008
| Showertea said: MS could theoretically sell off the XBox franchise to another company for 4-6 Billion dollars, not an inconsiderable sum considering the damn thing never seems to make any money. I think MS is a bad home for a console, as they focus on software and business solutions and a console is a combined hardware/software entertainment market. The question is, who would buy it? I could see either another big entertainment conglomerate like Time Warner wanting to get into the game, although it might be a bad financial move. Rumor has it that EA wants to get into the console business, but seeing as how their business is apparently predicated on the PS3 this might be a bad choice. Of course, the crazy move is Sony buying up the franchise, then killing the franchise and giving everyone with a 360 a hundred dollar gift certificate for a brand new PS3, now with Resistance 2 AND Gears of War 2. I just don't know if sony has 6 billion they're willing to spend on the endevour. |
That wouldn't work anyway. Companies willing to spend that much money would want it to be an investment, and killing it off will just lose Sony money even if it might be benificial to Sony's own games division-- you never know when another company might want to challenge Sony.
