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brute on 30 June 2008
Legend11 said:
It's hard to imagine them losing money on the 360 from here on in. Especially with the installed base growing, reliability improving, and manufacturing costs for the systems falling.

 

 not too mention the amount of software 360 owners buy,but i said its a possibilty since they are buying alot of exclusives



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wfz on 30 June 2008

I don't know the figures, but I thought there was a general consensus that Microsoft would be pulling into the profit zone sometime later this gen.

Anyways if they don't profit, they'll just rethink their strategy and go with a new approach, or (maybe) keep pushing what they're doing now. Either way I don't see them leaving the business, since they have managed to start gaining more profits to help their initial loss with the Xbox.



brute on 30 June 2008
coolestguyever said:
no fuckin way they'll fuckin not make another fuckin console! i fuckin bet my fuckin sick fuckin life on a fuckin xbox 720 bitch! fuck! if they exit they're fuckin quitter just like those fuckers down at sega! fuck yeah! sony fucked the shit out of sega! fuck! nintendo has been fuckin solid all these years! fuck come fuckin on M$ make me another fuckin console! fuck oh fuckin yeah!

 

 dude better edit this,you can get banned



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leo-j on 30 June 2008
brute said:
O-D-C said:
ya what about Nintendo?

 

 i think he forgot about a little company thats dominating now thats called ninty

 

 Hardcore gamers go for hardcore games, XBOX 360 is out, means they have to settle for the PS3.



 

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brute on 30 June 2008
leo-j said:
brute said:
O-D-C said:
ya what about Nintendo?

 

 i think he forgot about a little company thats dominating now thats called ninty

 

 Hardcore gamers go for hardcore games, XBOX 360 is out, means they have to settle for the PS3.

 

 so your saying wii doenst have hardcore games?plus hardcores arent the biggest market



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Tigawoods on 30 June 2008
brute said:

if microsoft will start to lose money again,and by the end of the gen for them to have lost more then made,do you think they will exit the console market.

http://www.frictionlessinsight.com/archives/2008/04/microsoft-repor-1.html

According to this article their gaming division made around 54 million last quarter. Im not sure how reliable this is considering I've heard a lot bigger numbers concerning their profit. Nonetheless, it does show that microsoft is starting to turn a profit even if it is a small one.

 



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Millennium on 30 June 2008

Probably not. The XBox label exists to extend the Windows monopoly to set-top boxes, and Microsoft has plenty of money to sink into that venture.



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dallas on 30 June 2008

Well, MS has been losing profits for a while, so I don't think that if MS had a few more quarters of neg profits, that it would make them prematurely pull out of the gaming market. Now that they are actually making a profit anyway, they should be able to safely make a profit as time goes on, as its just going to get easier and easier for them; keep in mind that as the chips on the 36o get smaller and smaller, they'll have fewer instances of console RROD which has been horrible for their profits, so somewhat better times are ahead for MS.

Even w/ the PS3 doing ever better, it still probably won't be as bad as every 360 burning up.



Gnizmo on 30 June 2008
leo-j said:
brute said:
O-D-C said:
ya what about Nintendo?

 

 i think he forgot about a little company thats dominating now thats called ninty

 

 Hardcore gamers go for hardcore games, XBOX 360 is out, means they have to settle for the PS3.

Last week 287k PS360s were sold. 378k Wiis were sold. Assuming all the sales went directly to the PS3 (which they wouldn't for a number of reasons) why would Sony dominate again? Seems like they would still be losing to me.

 



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pichu_pichu on 30 June 2008
brute said:
pichu_pichu said:
Then Apple will come in

 

 if apple enters it will only be in hand-helds

yeah, I guess so...