yes, would stop insomnia from several users here and no arguing with other fans as the natural outcome would happen - sony-worldwide-domination, finally!

if one looks at the past years there is something that became very useful - accounts, user-data. looking at the awesome xbl-stats i doubt ms will drop xbox. and what means forever? x360 was their second attempt which is far more successful than "experts" in this forum or any other "analyst" ever expected, fact. the console is making profit, game-sales are high, xbl is a huge success.

last gen they were third, this gen second for a long time and still competing quite good for the oldest console this gen. i don't see that ms will drop the xbox-idea.

well they have a point that microsoft probably shouldn't do what they did at first with the 360, and certainly not what they did with the xbox. However they have a good business going now, and until we see what their next system looks like we can't criticize it. Microsoft has so much less pressure now, they are in way better position than they have ever been in before. Sony isn't going to be able to make another PS3 like system this time in their current financial position. Nintendo isn't trying to push big losses obviously, so Microsoft has no pressure to do that either. They should be able to release a powerful system that will be comparable to the new PS system and break even or take a small loss on hardware.

Microsoft seems to have this knack of coming late to markets (game, phone, tablet), and as a result, generally have to spend more to muscle a foothold in an already established industry. However, they have the advantage of integration of these markets with their dominant home PC platform, so long as the trend doesn't start moving too quickly towards other markets...

Xbox is doing fine. Microsoft are in it for the long run, because they see these 3 markets as where technology is heading more towards. They're not going to say "Well we've spent several years and only just started making a profit now, but it's not as fast as expected so we're shutting it down". No sane businessman that I know of does that.

Microsoft makes like $5-$9 billion *every year* guys. That's more in one year than Sony makes in like 20 years.

XBox is their only division outside of the software OS that's actually quite successful in marketshare and poised to be a leader.

Surface/Windows tablet, Windows Phone, their Facebook knock off, Bing, etc. are not even close, none of them have even 5% marketshare in any of their respective market.

If they're not going to spend money on the XBox division and taking control of the living room before Apple and Google get to it, exactly what are they going to spend their money on? Just sit on it, or spend $8 billion more on a company like Skype?

MS is going to back XBox Next massively. Taking a hardware loss for 2-3 years is no big deal, the next XBox likely will have a product cycle of 10 years, so it'll have plenty of time to return a profit on the back end. They just have to avoid doing something stupid like the RROD disaster and be more attentive to their hardware/heating issues.

Profit is profit, instead of yahoo dissecting Microsoft's Xbox division on worthy, they need to dissect themselves and stitch the bleeding gut.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I seriousy imgined that n my head. Think of all the sad fanboys that actually would have done that? What wonderfull lives they must lead!

Yet Microsoft can't afford to keep investing in the xbox? LOL!!! This thread is over!

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Well there's something new... a Microsoft is DOOMED!!! article.

By the way, what the heck is this "Yahoo" website anyway? Anybody ever hear about it?

Oh... I think I remember hearing something about it being a great way to search the internet. Back when people created their web pages on Angelfire.com