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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?"
Bill Gates shrugs it off as he burns hundred dollar bills while laughing in front of soup lines in downtown Seattle.
If you say so... one of the big reasons that I didn't buy an XBox was that I didn't want a hard drive. Hard drives are unreliable as hell in PC's, and the last thing that I want when I'm sitting down with a beer and a bag of chips on the couch is to have to worry about whether or not the hard drive is starting to make a funny noise.
And, what's the point of a network connector? What is that for? Playing against other people? Ugh. No thanks.
I *love* the simplicity of the PS2.
Fisrt point: by modem technology is dead I mean a few things. One, there is no further progress to be made in the technology. Two, from a personal experience standpoint, I cannot use a modem to play games. It just does not work reliably enough to ensure an enjoyable gaming experince.
Is chess a modern game? Hence my clarification. We all know chess is a trivially simple game to play over the littlest of data links. Even that lame IP over Carrier Pidgeon could do it without the players getting anxious.
We're talking about games like Madden which feature 11 men per side that have to be constantly updated in order for the game to function properly. That takes a large amount of bandwidth when you compare it to hearts, no?
Furthermore the fact that the system requirements say something is a joke. Go get the latest game and run it on the "requirements" then look next to the requirements and find the "recommended hardware" instead. If you've actually done it and it works, say so. But don't make guesses and claims based on marketing information.