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Xbox Losses Double, Xbox Shrinks

Posted by timothy on from the still-early-in-the-game dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:Still #2 And A Very Cool System by brickbat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For the same price of a PS/2, I got Dolby 5.1 in all games, network adapter, built-in hard drive, etc.

    Wow, you got Dolby 5.1 from your PS/2??? I was lucky to get the PC speaker to emit more than a strangled sqawk when I played a DOS port of NetHack . . .

  2. I guess I added to that by AssFace · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I bought my fiancee's uncle and his family an XBox and a few games for xmas.
    they love the thing... so they say.
    I have yet to play one, but I have carried one around.

    I on the other hand bought a used ps2 and play it pretty regularly - I suck at pretty much all the "normal" games and as a result play a lot of Tiger Woods golf which I'm good at (and I suspect everyone is if I am).

    I'm not really sure I care which I use - the main reason I got the ps2 was so I could later get the game The Getaway as well as the GTA3 series - but now that reviews have panned the former and the latter are too hard/boring for me, I suppose it really doesn't matter (they are boring in the sense that I'm so bad at them that I lose interest quickly).

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  3. Offtopic, but are there any Indian game developers by elhondo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Given their dearth of programmers, and the move to migrate IT type services to India, why don't we hear of any game programming shops there?

  4. don't mean nuthin' at all by BurKaZoiD · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wonder what this means for all the current Xbox Mod Chips?

    Nothing to me. I don't own an Ecks-Box, and don't plan on it, since I already have two computers. Why would I want a stripped down PC I can't do anything to? Don't need Ecks-Box Live either; I've been playing games on the net for years already.

    I gots me a ps2 & gamecube for consoling (no pun intended). And I only got the ps2 after they dropped the price way low, and only then cos it could also play DVDs. It gets more use as a DVD player (well, except for now, since they released Marvel vs Capcom 2...my thumb hurtz!!!).

    I played Halo once. That's all it took to say, nope, not for me.

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