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?"

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Re:Still #2 And A Very Cool System

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I've got an 8MB card for my Ps2 that i can take with me to a friends house, instead of lugging a 25lb Xbox with me. And for reference, i've never run out of space, in 3 years.

Why would you "lug a 25lb Xbox" to your friend's house? Why not just buy a single 8mb memory card for the Xbox. Bring up whatever saved game you want from the hard drive, save it to the memory card and take that to your friends house. Seems like an easier way to go about it to me.

The hard drive is also nice for ripping CDs to for background music in the games, and if you've got Xbox live, it allows you to download new levels and such.

I hear Blinx makes use of the hard drive too, but haven't played it yet.