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Xbox Losses Double, Xbox Shrinks
seldo writes "According to ITWorld, losses in the last quarter at Microsoft's Home and Entertainment segment have doubled. From the article: 'The segment, which also includes Microsoft's TV platform and PC games, posted a quarterly operating loss of US$348 million, compared with $180 million in the same period a year ago.'" An anonymous reader
points to similar coverage at news.com, pointing out that the company also reports "profits for Office, and one small note about an undisclosed presumably Japanese company that Microsoft if propping up. So, the big question on my mind is, who is Microsoft secretly holding above water, and why? The fact that they are presumably Japanese, seems to point towards an XBox partner. Could this explain the sudden flood of Sega exclusive games?" Another anonymous reader writes "Microsoft will be showing a smaller sized Xbox at E3 this May. In addition to the smaller size of the hardware, the Xbox Lite will also be integrated with Media2Go allowing Xbox users to download digital content such as music and movies. Wonder what this means for all the current Xbox Mod Chips?"
They might have had a bigger market in Japan if it did!
On the one hand, Microsoft are losing money, yay! But on the other hand, if they're losing money they must be selling more and more units, boo!
Help, tell me what to think!!!
Make the mod chips legal ..the linux users will buy the boxes by the hordes! :)
What, all 10 of them? And those users won't buy any games, instead they'll just download 'em. Oh yeah, that'll help the bottom line, I'm sure. I'm sure that MS is chomping at the bit to do that!
Nice Engrish
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
Wonder what this means for all the current Xbox Mod Chips?
:)
It means that MS profits for next quarter will be higher from all the people flooding the market buying old XBoxes.
Obvious. The current mod chips are doomed, of course.
If Microsoft goes through the trouble of reconfiguring the case, then rejiggering the motherboard is trivial. Wouldn't be surprised if they put a bullet-proof kryptonite cover over the chips or soemthing.
The same thing it meant the last time a change was made to the xbox.
Time to make new mod chips.
Now what will I use to crack open coconuts?
Increase the size of your XBOX in 10 days with our Herbal XBOX Viagra!
Trolling is a art,
In Japan, XBox IS a room and the controllers are garages.
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
Just wait for spam e-mails advertising "Xbox Enlargement Pills". It'll be here soon, seriously.
In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
So if MS keeps posting losses on the xbox like this, the real question is, which will happen first?
-Microsoft runs out of funds and has to close its doors.
-Our sun dies
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The Xbox is an in-between system. Between the great exclusive games on the PS2 and the great exclusive games on the Gamecube, it gets the leftovers.
Help, tell me what to think!!!
It's Monday, so we like video games, so this is bad news. But it's February, so this is good news. But the day of the week is odd, so we're supposed to only bash Sony and Blizzard. But the day matches the 2-digit year, so we only especially make fun of Macintosh users. But it was posted AFTER lunch, so this is good news.
Got it?
I bet you when the Xbox2025 comes out and is the last console on the market, MicrosoftAolTimeWarnerDisney will jack the price up to $2500. Which should just about offset the AOL losses...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
I thought you worked at Sega?
How's your Smell-o-vision project going?
Your educational background is pretty impressive too.
What about Super Marx Brothers?
(Thanks Klaruz.)
the linux users will buy the boxes by the hordes!
You mean by the dozens.
Let's see, IIRC, Microsoft has $40,000,000,000 in cash. If we call the "average" of the last 2 quarters a loss of about $200,000,000, that means Microsoft only has 50 years to turn this product around, or they're history.
They're probably quivering at my math right now.
adeu,
Mateu
"And we're happy here, but we live in fear, we've seen a lot of temples crumble..." - Concrete Blonde
"plus huge, expensive network switches"
You must shop at MicroCenter.
> A man with 72 bathrooms is nothing more than
> greedy.
Maybe he's got chronic diarrhaea.
Yeah, I had the same vision, but without the action button.
In essence, a true Jobs-ified gaming platform for the morally elite.
Any sufficiently well-organized Government is indistinguishable from bullshit.