reverie on 22 April 2007
The bottom line is the only thing that matters. Market share movements only matter as far as they threaten your future bottom lines. If the Xbox has failed is a topic that we will talk about for a while.
Fuck up Sony to protect Windows as the dominating consumer OS for the time being. - Success
Make money while doing so. - Failure
Lead in the digital download market to stop Apple and others entering homes. - Still running, but probably failure.
Japan is a failure though, pretty clear. They couldn't even pay their marketing campaigns with the little revenue they have in Japan.
Sold well for many years in Japan (in numerous iterations), hardly got any love in the US and Europe. Failure or success?
Hardcore gaming is a bubble economy blown up by Microsoft's $7 $6 billion losses.
