"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> How Much is Too Much?
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> ,----[ Summary ]
> | Microsoft says it will stick with Xbox. But with years of heavy losses
> | behind it, the pressure's on for the gaming division to make good
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http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/oct2006/id20061013_283856.htm?campaign_id=rss_topStories
> http://tinyurl.com/yxdr4j
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Microsoft knew they were going to have loses on the Xbox to begin with, it
no surprise when it didn't kill the PS2.
> Related:
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> Microsoft stoic despite massive losses
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> | If you were to judge by the PR rhetoric, you'd think the 360 was
> | an unstoppable commercial juggernaut. As usual though, PR lies.
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> http://www.gamerscan.com/articles/06/10/09/microsofts.massive.losses/
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When is PR telling the truth? You think Sony tells the truth about the
PS3? PS2 PR was full of horse sh*t too. Nintendo is the only one that
even comes close to telling the truth and even the stretch the truth.
> Microsoft Hides Its Mobile and Business Apps Divisions
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> | The company is folding its two worst-performing divisions -- Microsoft
> | Business Solutions (its business applications unit) and its Mobile and
> | Embedded units -- into the Microsoft Business Division and Microsoft
Home
> | and Entertainment units, respectively.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1990243,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
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Sounds like a spin off in the making....
> Gamers Say Microsoft Understates Xbox Problems
>
Most likey true, fanboy gamers tend to believe their favorite company is GOD
and can do no wrong.
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> | An insider from Electronic Arts, Inc. is saying that the failure rate
> | of Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console is actually ten times higher than
> | what Microsoft spokespeople have admitted.
> |
> | Game Daily BIZ, a gaming industry publication, reported that the
> | anonymous source tallied that of the 300 consoles EA has received,
> | 30-50 percent of them have failed.
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> http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/08/xbox_gamers02.html
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EA most likely had the systems running 18 hours or more a day.
http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html to see what EA is like to its
workers.
> Game Sales Jump, Despite Xbox Slump
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> | Regardless of what happens this holiday season, August represented yet
> | another month of disappointing sales for Microsoft's Xbox 360. Pachter
> | for one had predicted that the company would sell between 200,000 and
> | 300,000 consoles last month, but the sales came in at the bottom of
> | that range, according to the NPD data he cited.
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http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/techstockupdate/10308023.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA
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Everyone is waiting the overpriced PS3 and the Wii. So I would have found
it amazing if the 360 sold well. Also most (all) demo units I have seen
don't even have the 360 in 720 or higher. So most people never see that
much of a difference between the Xbox and the Xbox 360.
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