Just for a change: Is The Xbox 360 in Real Trouble?

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Pristine20 said:
The funny part is that despite M$ millions in profits and sony's billions in losses, sony has kept their gaming division intact as of now. Word goes around that they even bought another studio (from a kotaku poster, I never verified this). On the other hand, M$ who has made profits in this division is firing the division's employees.

So it boils down to this: either sony values their gaming division more than M$ or M$ thinks it's better to just outsource everything.

What this kind of strategies hold for the future is this: if something drastic happened and sony's next console totally tanked, they could easily pull of a sega and just make software which holds less risk but if the same happened to M$, that's pretty much it for the gaming industry at least on the console front.

Either that or Sony is being too confident and it will blow up in their faces at some point... also possible.

There's also the possibility that Sony is planning a restructuring of SCE in secret. It's much too early for any definite claims in this regard.