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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."
Yeah, Microsoft will be taking Sony...
...In the ASS!
:P
-JT
*hands you a gun* Go for it. I'm standing right here. Pull the trigger and become a man, because everyone knows the only way to become a man is to shoot someone who hasn't done you any harm, but is different. While you're at it, you'd better find a homosexual and a person of another skin color than your own too. Normally I don't respond to stuff like this, but I'm kind of tired of the BS. Even from trolls on /. I'd expect better.
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I used this logic to specifically punish MS by buying a Dreamcast, a PS2, a Gamecube and a GBA. Above all, I don't want MS owning the market and flooding it with games that aren't fun.
Then again, my purchases didn't make much difference, if any... but the fact remains that MS got $0 from me, and will get $0 when I finally buy a used xbox to mod it and use as a file server.
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Me spell chucker work grate. Need grandma chicken.
Thats some crystal ball you have there. Can you tell me what stocks I should buy?
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
Hey mcc: Nice bbcode, jackass.
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Due to the fact they used CDs people could copy their games much easier than Nintendos, so they reached a critical mass earlier and then the thing became a self seller with the non educated masses (who really buy the games)
If Microsoft was smart they should learn a lesson from that. They used the same tactics in the eighties and early nineties to get rid of competition like Borland and Lotus.
-1 Godwin
BTW, deliberately losing money on a product to make its price more appealing and to gain marketshare is an anticompetitive practice called dumping, and it appears to be punished by law in democratic countries.
Trolling using another account since 2005.
"In other words -- Japan has 2 huge titans gearing up for a *huge* battle for #1."
Where did I see this last? Oh yeah! Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla. Godzilla vs. Ghidra. Godzilla vs. Rodan. Man, it seems like every year they've got a pair of titans set to destroy the city.
Please Nintendo, make it stop. You're about to become the next Sega as far as home consoles go. Portables? The PSP may wipe the floor with you..but you'll come back on the basis of price yet again.
You also forgot..the XBox isn't technically impressive _at all_. You take a standard pc motherboard, some regular ram and an onboard nvidia chip..presto, Xbox console. Wow, now that's fucking amazing.
My nonexistant 10 year old cousin could make the same console in 15 minutes with off the shelf parts.