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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
PostPosted:Thu Jul 15, 2004 10:47 am
by 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>
PostPosted:Thu Jul 15, 2004 12:02 pm
by 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>
PostPosted:Thu Jul 15, 2004 12:58 pm
by 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>
PostPosted:Thu Jul 15, 2004 1:15 pm
by 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>
Sure it does, it's a comparisson between what that guy is saying about the videogame Industry (even though we are losing billions and are losing market share now, we will still conquer the videogame market) and what Charles was saying about conquest of Eu
PostPosted:Thu Jul 15, 2004 1:49 pm
by 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>
PostPosted:Thu Jul 15, 2004 2:01 pm
by 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>
PostPosted:Thu Jul 15, 2004 3:04 pm
by Eric
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>There's about 1 million subscribers according to Microsoft.</div>
PostPosted:Thu Jul 15, 2004 3:41 pm
by 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>
PostPosted:Thu Jul 15, 2004 4:26 pm
by 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>
PostPosted:Thu Jul 15, 2004 10:01 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I think their active accounts is much less though</div>
PostPosted:Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:24 am
by 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>
PostPosted:Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:36 am
by Gentz
<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Hahaha</div>
PostPosted:Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:38 am
by 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>
PostPosted:Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:01 pm
by 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>
PostPosted:Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:02 pm
by 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>
You don't have to know history. An obvious futile battle is an obvious futile battle.
PostPosted:Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:33 pm
by 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>
Absolutely correct. The Xbox was not a successful system from a business standpoint. If the second system is not successful, Microsoft will likely exit the market before it effects their shareholders positions.
PostPosted:Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:38 pm
by 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>
I seem to remember plenty of people....
PostPosted:Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:25 am
by 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>
PostPosted:Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:02 pm
by Torgo
<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>You tell 'em, Dennis Miller :)</div>