Jereel Hunter on 16 April 2009
| Tim_Duncan said: I'm not sure there will ever be a next Xbox console, especially if the only country they continue to sell well is the US. When you're half the price of your competitor, you need to sell better than roughly the same as your competitor to succeed... Ms still didn't recoup the Xbox 1 losses, the 360 is dead in Japan (1 million vs 4 million PS3), and most recent multiplatform games sell more on PS3 worldwide (RE5, SF4...). I highly doubt it's enough to convince MS shareholders to go on with the gaming market. That was never MS core market anyway, and they're bleeding too much money in every business right now (Zune failure vs Ipod, Yahoo bid failure, IE losing market share to Firefox Safari and Chrome, Vista failure, Office losing market share vs Open Office). |
I don't know why I'm responding... but here goes:
Bleeding money? 35B profit in a year is bleeding money? By your definition then, Sony must have exploded in a whirlwind of blood and bone shards. And how is the "Yahoo bid failure" bleeding money. "Sir, Yahoo has rejected our offer." "Darnit! GIVE AWAY THE MONEY ANYWAY!"
As much as I'm sure Microsoft is sweating, I think they may just pull through since their competitors actually ARE bleeding (namely Sony) while they still make money hand over fist.
