I didn't realize MS was losing money on the Xbox: "Look at what we have done with Xbox," Ballmer told News.com. "We may still be losing money, but we have gone from nowhere to a significant player with a whole different approach. We've gene

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/07/14 ... 06.html</a>

I didn't realize MS was losing money on the Xbox: "Look at what we have done with Xbox," Ballmer told News.com. "We may still be losing money, but we have gone from nowhere to a significant player with a whole different approach. We've generated something brand-new."</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://he same">he same</a>

Heh, he's suffering from similar delusions that Charles the Great of Sweden suffered when he went to war against Russia, Germany, Denmark, and Great Britain, and expected to win =P</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Okay, that had absolutely nothing to do with anything.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>You know all that talk from the two crazed Nintendo heads (Yamauchi and Iwata) about online not being profitable and putting profits into the business model of the hardware? This is why. Microsoft is making headway, a lot of it, but they're losing $. Not many companies can do that and survive</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Sweden had no chance of defeating all those nations, and Microsoft has no chance of defeating Sony and Nintendo who are both doing way better in the market.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Seganet helped dig the grave for Sega. The truth is, less than 5% of the videogame community cares about online gaming (only 4% of Xbox users have Xbox Live), so it isn't a major issue.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>There's about 1 million subscribers according to Microsoft.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Hmmm, that would make it around 5.5%. The last article I read was that it had 750K.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Hmmmm, I need a link to official Xbox sales, I am finding it hard to believe that 25 million sold is correct (according to IGN's Xbox related forums)</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I think their active accounts is much less though</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>It's a rather obsure reference. Not everybody is familar with Swedish history.</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Hahaha</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>How many game companies actually manage to turn a profit with their first system though?</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>All of them? When he says they're losing money, I don't think he means they're losing money on the hardware and making it up in software and licensing. I think he means as a whole, XBox is in the red.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I should clarify that to mean all of them that last.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Did no one learn about Peter the Great and Charles the Great in school? They are two of the most important historical figures in Western Civilization.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>If not, then I do wonder why they are continuing. Their strategy seems to be to try and muscle out the competition before raising the prices and making their system profitable.

Well, either that or the Xbox was a complete blunder.</div>

[kali o.]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>...predicting the Xbox would completely fail.

I seem to remember people claiming that the PS would completely fail.

I wish I could remember if I could count you among those numbers, but after all these years, Sine still hasn't fixed the 'search' function (not that it would cover the AD/early shrine).</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>You tell 'em, Dennis Miller :)</div>