Perry: "Sony has no chance of making money on the PS3"

[DirtyP2002]

noname2200 said:

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The_vagabond7 said:

Can they really? In the past two years alone, Microsoft's "war chest" has been halved, having lost over $30 billion. They face increasing competition on all fronts, and aside from their OS division none of their ancillaries are really striking pay dirt: search, gaming, Zune, etc. have all been losing rather than gaining money as a whole. Even Internet Explorer is being chipped away, albeit gradually. The simple truth of the matter is that the 90's are over: Microsoft is no longer made of money, and other companies are cheerfully assaulting it on all sides. This is not to say that Micrsoft am d00med or any such nonsense, but you can bet your rear end that they'll be more cautious about how they spend their money from now on.

And on a related note, I believe you're highly overestimating the degree to which Microsoft is devoted to the X-Box. Microsoft could conceivably throw enough resources behind it to guarantee a victory in the console wars. Likewise, the United States could throw enough resources into North Korea to overthrow that regime and unify the country under the South's leadership. But in both cases, the price certainly doesn't appear to be worth it to the folks who make the decisions.

 

 

 

Yes, they really can. And it's good that they're facing competition. It will make their products better. And from what I've read, the Xbox 360 is considered by Microsoft to be one of their most important products, so I don't think I'm overestimating their dedication at all, especially now that they've proven that they are totally capable of stealing market share from Sony.

It appears we'll have to agree to disagree on that point, then. And while the executives who run the X-Box and Gaming division may well be dedicated to the console, most of what I've read says that Microsoft shareholders don't share thier faith. Still, while I doubt I'm wrong here I concede the faint possibility.

And I agree with you on the competition being good part, but then I'm a die-hard capitalist and consumer advocate, so whatever benefits us makes me happy.

 

MS can afford it. Well it is strange to say a company facing more and more competition and is not made of money like it was, when you see they are making more and more money every single year.

 

Year	employees	Revenuein Mio. US-$
1980	40	8
1981	125	16
1982	200	32
1983	383	69
1984	608	125
1985	910	140
1986	1.200	197
1987	2.000	300
1988	2.800	590
1989	3.900	804
1990	5.200	1.186
1991	11.700	1.847
1992	15.300	2.777
1993	16.500	3.786
1994	20.900	4.714
1995	17.800	6.075
1996	20.561	9.050
1997	22.232	11.936
1998	27.055	15.262
1999	31.575	19.747
2000	39.170	22.956
2001	48.030	25.296
2002	50.621	28.365
2003	54.468	32.187
2004	57.086	36.835
2005	61.000	39.778
2006	71.171	44.280
2007	78.565	51.120

2008 it was something like $60,000,000,000 revenue. So why do you think, MS is running out of money?

You can see from another point of view. MS is getting in the Search-market (can you call it a market?) MS is has its mobile Music player with the zune, MS is getting in the gaming market, Just in addition to the core market which keeps on performing great.

At the end of this generation, MS will have a piece or hardware installed in 45 million households, which offers Xbox Live, which can be connected to the Windows Live Messenger with more than 300 million Users, which supports live.com for searching. MSN.com is the number six in the most clicked sites in the internet, live.com is on four. They will make money out of this. Okay, they are not dominating these markets like they do with Windows / office, but they broke into it and they are here to stay.