Xbox Losses Double, Xbox Shrinks

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Xbox Losses Double, Xbox Shrinks

Posted by timothy on Monday February 3, 2003 @08:27AM 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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Couldn't resist by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-03 08:29 · Score: -1, Offtopic

FP! Or not?
1. Re:Couldn't resist by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-03 08:30 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  nope, first post was years ago.
oooh, let me say it.... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-03 08:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

In soviet russia, xbox shrinks YOU!
Who Invented the X-BOX? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-03 08:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Why, it was Al Gore's great great Grandfather!
XBox is gay by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-03 08:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

It reminds me of Apple Mac. Never buy a used one unless you like spilled jizz.
8==(")===D ~o ~O by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-03 08:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic
Re:Still #2 And A Very Cool System by brickbat · 2003-02-03 08:52 · 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 . . .
In Soviet Russia... by ctid · 2003-02-03 08:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

In Soviet Russia, Microsoft makes a profit on every Xbox they sell!

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1. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-03 08:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  In Soviet Russia, XBox makes YOU!
2. Re:In Soviet Russia... by rasjani · 2003-02-03 09:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Obviously, i haven't been paying too much attention for user comments. But hey, what on earth is the thing behind these "In Soviet Russia .." ... "Jokes".
  
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3. Re:In Soviet Russia... by verch · 2003-02-03 09:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  They are a take on the jokes Yakov Smirnof used to tell.. In Soviet Russia.. television watches you, newspaper reads you, etc.
  
  In Soviet Russia, Xbox loses money on you!
4. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-03 09:51 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  I wondered about this too. Now that I know... I am glad I don't find it humorous. I figured it was a passing /. "hip" term that gets modded up just for using it. It will go away, and another Brittney Spears will takes its place.
5. Re:In Soviet Russia... by ctid · 2003-02-03 10:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Yeah. I knew that, apart from the name of they guy. I was trying to take Soviet Russia jokes to strange new places. Not very successfully, I'm afraid.
  
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6. Re:In Soviet Russia... by saddino · 2003-02-03 10:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Darn, this misinformation keeps going around!
  
  Yakov Smirnoff has had only ONE (1, that's o-n-e) joke in this form, which is "In America you can always find a party. In Russia the party always finds you." This joke became famous in a beer commercial. As you might be able to tell, it's not just backwards, it's cleverly reversed -- the Communist party finds you -- wink, wink.
  
  I mean, seriously, do you all believe a comedian could make a living saying crap like "the newspaper reads you!"? That doesn't even make sense! Wait -- don't answer that -- I forgot about Carrot Top.
7. Re:In Soviet Russia... by pyrrho · 2003-02-03 11:25 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  ... I think he also had a joke in his standup that was ended, "Well, in Old Soviet Russia, TV watches YOU"...
  
  confirm/deny?
  
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8. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Raster+Burn · 2003-02-03 12:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  These jokes are old even in Soviet Russia.
9. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-03 13:50 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Actually that statement was not a joke and can be attributed to a psychoogist discussing television.
  
  But before that it was an old joke from Mad Magazine (And wherever they stole it from in the 50's)
Security Vulnerabilities! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-03 09:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I think the bigger issue here is that funxbox.com should really patch their Red Hat Linux 7.2 system.

telnet funxbox.com 80
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux)

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-222.html
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess I added to that by AssFace · 2003-02-03 09:17 · 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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Offtopic, but are there any Indian game developers by elhondo · 2003-02-03 09:18 · 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?
don't mean nuthin' at all by BurKaZoiD · 2003-02-03 09:18 · 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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Obligatory Wiki reference by MaximusPrime · 2003-02-03 11:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?InSovietRussia