Behold, the power of the rainbow.  

lol microsft should really just quit and drop out :)

thay have too sell 120m MORE 360s and make 50$ OFF each and evry single one of them!!!!!!

its just imposible....

even if thay did relsse a new xbox in 2010 or 2011

that system will also have too make up about 5b$ that the last 2 system have lost due too thm being failers!

so thay really wont see a profit till about 2020! when thre 5th system is out....

and by then microsoft will be like bearsterns and asking help from other popl too pay thr employes!




google will be making OS and microsft will die!!!!!!

die die die!!!!!!!

long live google!!!!!!!!

^^ You've initiated the flamebait , MDF arriving in 3,2,1...

I don't understand the talk about R&D and advertising costs, isn't that included in the total for the games division? So what's the point?

Untill Microsoft is loosing money I dont care what happenes :P ( jk ) .

Million, you didn't even mention anything in your post about why Microsoft would wait until 2013. Why did you put it in the title?

Anyway, one of the reasons Microsoft lost a lot of money last generation was because the life of the xbox was cut short by NVIDIA discontinuing the gpu it used in August of 2005. This caused Microsoft to rush the 360 market and led to the RRoD fiasco.

If it hadn't been for NVIDIA Microsoft would still be producing xboxs and selling them at a profit similar to the ps2. It would have also given Microsoft enough time to properly design the 360 and avoided the $3 billion loss caused by RRoD.

Chances are that the next generation xbox will come out between 2010 and 2012, but no one really knows since their transition from 6th generation to 7th generation was not of the choosing. I can guarantee that next time they will continue to sell the 360 even after the 720 comes out.

I think Microsoft should just pull a sega and start making games rather than consoles.

Put future Halo, Gears of War, Mass Effect, etc. games on the Playstation 4/Wii 2/whatever other consoles enter the market.

I don't think Xbox will ever outsell Playstation or Nintendo, so games should be what they work on.

 You clearly don't know what sunk cost are either, do you?  Sure, MS has lost 6+ billion dollars in their games division, but guess what, that means dick when making decisions about the future.  It's already gone, and can't negatively impact them anymore than it already has.  Since they've posted profits now for two consecutive quarters the management and investors all see that they're making money, and they'll just keep doing what they're doing.  

Don't post in this thread again until you've completed at least a basic level economics course. 

zealot your avatar is one of the wrost i hav seen on this site....make it shorter and you hav me over :)


the 360 was rushed so it can get a lead over the ps3.......

the testers knew about the overheating thay told microsft thay didnt care thay just wanted a lead over the ps3

u never explained y 2013 - i think 2010