rocketpig on 04 May 2007
While you're right and you have to start to chuckle at MS each time they say it, I think they might be right this time.
The original XBOX blew its wad on launch day (Halo) and it was three years until they saw the next boom (Halo 2).
When Halo 3 launches, I expect to see about half a million 360s fly off NA store shelves. It will be huge. MS is coming close to profitability and they haven't even pulled out their big guns this generation. Add in a simultaneous launch of GTA IV this time around (how many people will opt for the cheaper 360 over the PS3?), Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, and a handful of other AAA games and I think MS is sitting pretty this holiday season.
Are they sitting as pretty as Nintendo will be? Probably not, but Nintendo, while overlapping the 360 market, isn't the direct competitor that the PS3 is. And as long as MS is beating up on Sony, I think they'll be happy for the time being.
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