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kitler53 on 19 February 2014
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kowenicki said:
kitler53 said:
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well listen, i'm not business expert.  i'm an engineer by trade.  ..but as a boy scout i learn that some times you're better off amputating an injured limb rather than trying to save it.  ..or selling my car to the junk yard rather than pay to fix it.  ..or any number of other wild analogies.

MS is in a very differnt position than sony or nintendo.  for MS, video games are more of a side project than a core business.  ..a distraction as many articles are calling it.  there's not a lot of money for them here, not compared to their core ventures.    but by the same hat,.. it won't bankrupt them either so i guess things could go either way.

..i guess it all comes down to what the new CEO's vision is but xbox doesn't really have much of a synergy with windows or office.  it's not going to help them sell more of their core products.  i really don't know what xbox does for MS as a corporate entity.  what's in it for MS?  what's the payoff that makes it worth it to them? i just don't see it

eh.

I agree that its small fry for MS.  But that is both a positive and a negative.  No harm in hanging around and seeing if the other two financially implode is there.  

I'd say the chances of that are 50/50 at the moment, particularly if the gaming crash you predict happens.

 


i'd probably go lower than that,..  maybe 25/75 with odds being low that MS actually sells xbox.  ..maybe even less.   for all the analyst chatter MS doesn't have to listen to it any more than when sony didn't listen when analysts that wanted them to sell off their movie division.

for MS to sell xbox there needs to be someone willing to buy it at a price worthwhile to MS.   as it stands now, who other than amazon would buy it and would they really offer a worthwhile price? if/when the collapse in gaming happens xbox as a brand will lose a lot of it's value and the likelyhood of a selloff seems would increase, imo.  for the moment complacency (..complacency isn't really the word i want but i can't think of another..) will likely keep the status quo simply because there isn't a huge reason to change.