500k?  that's it? 

oh boy.

channel stuffing in previous quarters really caught up to them, eh... 

I wonder how many more PS3s and 360s retailers can take. Even if the retailers have the money to place orders, the physical space these boxes take is enormous. You can fit 3-4 Wii boxes in the same space as a single PS3. Every time I go to Wal-mart or Target I see these hulking PS3 boxes sitting at the bottom of the display case and wonder how many are in the back because they can't fit.

 Not that much stuffing. They did sell at least 9 million of those (give or take the actual amounts compared to what's on the frontpage).

 And even though they didn't directly develop the Zune, they did fund it, so it did cose them money.

Maybe MS are already prestocking those Elite systems in their warehouses?

 well then tell me how they shipped only 500k of them.  that's 167k a month, less than how many XBox's gets sold in the US alone each month, for the past jan-mar.

I can't get over what a stupid move Zune was. Even if 360 is approaching profitability, we'll never know. Until they discontinue Zune.

 Microsoft knows whether or not it's approaching profitability, and that's what counts. Reverie's posts on the subject are pointless since he/she doesn't have any idea.

Zune is actually a good device on the whole, however it's just to 'hardcore' for the whole market, they thought all of those awesome super duper features would sell a product like that.

basically microsoft's strategy is "we have lots of money, we'll just keep trying to make new stuff.  one of them has got to make us some money!"  the only problem is that their hitting percentage is so far 0.000.