So Dreamcast is now Louis and Clark...hahaha...and I need to get a clue.  It's funny the silly nonsense people will try to spin when the 3 companies report this quarter...spin spin spin.  The bottomline will be this...SHOW ME THE MONEY...these 3 don't make games to brag to fans about which console has the coolest graphics or this or that, it's about who makes the most money.  Look at Nintendo...they don't give a shit about hi-def graphics, just about pulling in cash...same thing with M$...Sony is the one on it's holy grail quest...or at least it's fans are to justify the mounting losses the Playstation brand has been suffering year in and year out.  

Squilliam, i really dont want to get banned for dissing you, but please can you stop being like n4g, this post is a flame thread and i really want to tell you that you need help and insult you but i will be banned even if you deserved to be insulted.

You are protected by my mercy and cowardness of the banhammer. however,keep on stealth trolling and we can go balls to the wall anytime my 'friend'

@Amon : the Playstation business as a whole (hardware + software + peripherals) has been profitable for a long time, as stated by Kaz Hiraï long ago so I'm not sure why you keep on embarassing yourself :

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/25/hirai-ps3-slim-sold-at-a-loss-but-business-profitable-overall/

"since the last fiscal year"

The saddest thing is when "gamers" turn into sales analysts. Don't you have any good game to play on 360 anymore instead ?

So a company that posted profits during the recession last year is not sucessful (MS)...therefore a company that posted losses must be downright terrible...MS stock has rose so consumers beside you do seem to believe in them...perhaps you should stop cherrypicking their flaws to damage control this thread whether it be true or not, Squilliam posted his views and supported them with facts and even if was fanboy biased that does not give any of you the right to start hounding on another company and in no way contributes to the thread. You don't like what Squilliam says, than prove him wrong, any idiot can spout failures of another company, you've only proven you may have the intelligence of a monkey. We are human so it is in our nature to fail anyone who opposes is an elitist.

@Grahamhsu : You want facts ? I gave some. You won't find a single analyst today who thinks MS is 'successful' in the recent years. Or do you think administrators want to fire Ballmer for fun ?

http://blogs.computerworld.com/five_reasons_to_fire_ballmer
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2316993,00.asp
http://www.cooltechzone.com/2009/12/21/microsoft-ceo-steve-ballmer-expected-to-be-fired-in-2010/

Here is another fact : PS business is profitable since last fiscal year.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/25/hirai-ps3-slim-sold-at-a-loss-but-business-profitable-overall/

So how can Sony be doomed ? I wonder.

Who is the monkey now? :)

/jokethreadclosed ?

Dreamcast did have a persistent online gaming platform, to my knowledge...I maybe mistaken, but I'm not talking about gaming online, which was already well underway on the PC, but instead an online platform in Xbox Live, which is a evolving service, but has been a persistent presence for years...I've had my account from the past console...that's what I'm talking about...not putting a modem on a box.

Please show me the numbers...not some worthless links...thanks.

So you're talking about keeping an account for 2 consoles ? Wow, great achievement. Congrats to MS for inventing such an important revolution in gaming.

You've got some $$$ data...otherwise you're just posting nonsesne...show me some numbers.

Kaz Hiraï is the boss of Sony. If he says PS business is profitable on the whole since last fiscal year, I think I'll believe him more than a bunch of fanboy kids on an unknown forum.

He would get instantly fired for giving wrong numbers publicly you know. Legal issues.