Salesforce wanted Microsoft to buy them for 70 billion dollars!

[Zappykins]

NobleTeam360 said:

Zappykins said:
That seems way to high, but they have bough about 50 other companies. But to have never shown a profit, seems like they could be the next Zinga.

Yeah the stuff MS spends money on a lot of the time is so questionable. I'm not saying they should buy 50 billion in gaming studios or anything but damn, could it hurt to spend some of that money on Xbox? Even if they don't believe Xbox will be aorund for much longer, their games will be. Thus buying some studios and bolstering their IP's only makes sense. However I digress. 

I know, they could have made the Xbox much more powerful if they wanted to, but they wanted to (or needed to for political corporation reason) needed to make a profit at launch.  I'm still a bit confused by this.  Tim Sweeny wanted a 2.5 TB graphics card, and Tim should get what he wants! (Although, to be honest, it would only be slightly different to human eyes from what they have now)  Plus we still have yet to see what DirectX 12 does - but a recent statement from ProjectRed says it will be dramatic.

I think anyone who thinks Xbox is not going to be around is just silly.  The Xbox One is still outselling the Xbox 360 and the little EDD part of Microsoft made more money last quarter than one of their major competitors have in years.