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Ballmer - Xbox 'Can Take Sony' In Next Generation
An anonymous reader writes "According to GameSpot, a Q&A with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has him saying that, although the company's Xbox game console isn't making money (or bleeding them dry), the pain has been worth it. 'We have gone from nowhere to a significant player,' he said, adding: 'I am betting we can take Sony in the next generation.' Guess things are set to get even more interesting with the forthcoming next-gen console launches."
...I am looking forward to run linux on it.
There you are, staring at me again.
Case in point:
Windows CE - After many years and many many Palm still dominates PDA's, not to mention Linux in the embedded market!
MSN - A large cost center that only gets hits until people figure out they can change their start page, or better yet their browser!
Ultimate TV - MS to own your living room. What happened to that?
Microsoft Money - Despite MS giving it away, EVERYONE still uses quicken.
Xbox - Another financial retard, still born and being kept alive by Daddy Gates deep pockets.
The list goes on and on... the fact is that outside of the core monopoly, they've never seen a financial success. Despite their best efforts. Given that history tends to repeat, I don't think Sony has much to worry about. At least not from MS. Sorry Steve.
Don't forget the best thing about the Xbox -- that Microsoft will sell you $300 worth of computer for $150.
.avi, .mpg, wmv, etc. files through the tv -- and all your mp3s through you home stereo.
.avi, .mpg, mp3, etc, and play them back through gear they already have.
With a mod chip, an ethernet cable and a Debian disk, your Xbox becomes a great distributor for all you
Add an off the shelf 100GB HDD and it's a warehouse too.
MS's Big Idea(tm) behid Xbox was to lose money on the hardware but make it back on games and Xbox Live subscriptions.
The best thing you can do is buy an Xbox for yourself and another for your brother/sister, mod it, install MythTV or somesuch, show your siblings how to use it to store
Every Xbox that sells, MS loses cash; every person who buys an Xbox and doesn't sign up for Xbox live is another loss for Redmond.
It makes me feel warm and fuzzy to know I can help ruin an evil company by buying their product.
I don't care, microsoft is starting to corner every market there is! 99.99999999999% of desktops run Windows, i think PS2 and Xbox are even about 50/50, i'm not sure, but Microsoft is still a monopoly. I think everyone forgets that. plus, xbox games suck! If theres a game out there for xbox thats actually any good, you can play it on PC, or PS2. Plus, i'd rather play on a high resolution computer monitor than a low resolution TV. and I'm a big fan of the mouse for games, i like having a mouse for FPS, it provides real time aiming, instead of a joystick. and sitting there for an hour turning around while someone already kills you.