Microsoft’s pockets not so deep for the Xbox 360 division

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JaggedSac said:

LOL.  I was very mistaken.  I looked into it and Nintendo and Sony are both doing alot worse than I thought.  And believe me, they are definitely making changes, just not as outward facing as M$.  Especially with stock trends like that.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/research/wizards/srwhistory.asp?Symbol=SNEJF

	SONY	Industry Group
3 Months	-35.0%	NA
6 Months	-29.3%	NA
12 Months	-47.7%	NA

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/research/wizards/srwhistory.asp?Symbol=NTDOF

	Nintendo	Industry Group
3 Months	-39.7%	NA
6 Months	-32.4%	NA
12 Months	-42.9%	NA

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/research/wizards/SRWHistory.asp?Symbol=MSFT

	Microsoft	Industry Group
3 Months	1.3%	-14.4%
6 Months	-9.7%	-24.3%
12 Months	-11.4%	-38.2%

 

Jagged. Dude. Look at the companies. Sony is a high end manufacturer of entertainment goods, phones, music players and TVs and Game consoles. All highly subject to a turn down in the economy.

Nintendo is only a manufacturer of Home Consoles and gaming devices, highly subject to a turn down in the economy.

Microsoft is the manufacturer of the worlds most used operating system, nearly every computer made and sold has their product on it, Home users and Businesses and Government all buy these computers, and need them on a regular basis, economic downturn or not. They also produce the most used Office Suite program, of which every computer needs to have it purchased.

I work in the government, in a 13 story building, we have around 8,000 computers in that building. Every one of them has Office and Windows on them. Every one of those computers is replaced every 5 years, mandatory. And all those DRM's need to be repurchased.

Thats one building. There are tens of thousands of those just in the State of California for the government with thousands of computers in most of them.

You tell me why Microsoft as a whole is doing better during this time then two companies dedicated to leasure purchases.

IF Microsofts gaming division was its own entity on the Stock Exchange, it would be far lower and harder hit than either Nintendo or Sony. Since Sony has its electronics division to prop up the Entertainment one, and Nintendo is selling like Gangbusters.