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[News] Xbox 360 Proves to Be a Disaster

Microsoft Proves It's a Software Company as Devices Take a Hit

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| If it were an independent company that produced the Xbox 360 game
| console and little or nothing else, the news for the quarter that
| just ended could be devastating: Fewer than one-third the number
| of consoles sold, by the company's estimates, than three quarters ago.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Proves_its_a_Software_Company_as_Devices_Take_a_Hit/1177688959

Microsoft Xbox 360 Revenue Drops, Nintendo to Blame?

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| According to reports, Microsoft?s Entertainment and Devices
| division, responsible for everything from Windows games to the 
| Zune (but predominantly dependant upon the Xbox 360) dropped 21%
| in quarterly revenue.  It finished under the $1 billion mark,
| at $929 million.
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http://www.gizmocafe.com/blogs/gizmo_cafe_blog/archive/2007/04/27/microsoft-xbox-360-revenue-drops-nintendo-to-blame.aspx
http://tinyurl.com/2w7vt7


Related:

Loot: Redmond, We Have a Problem, Or, What's Wrong With the Xbox 360

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| At this point, Former becomes impassioned. That's not fair, he says;
| we always saw this as a long-term venture. To which we reply that we
| were talking about the original Xbox, and while other divisions of
| the company throw off more profits in a single quarter than the
| entire $5 billion or so lost in the home and entertainment division
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| to date, the fact remains that, as we take-our-word-for-it predicted,
| the Xbox group has been spectacularly unprofitable for Microsoft.
| Hence, our heretofore unpublished Vietnam analogy. The rest of the
| night is a blur, but we digress.
| 
| [...]
| 
| The worst case scenario for Microsoft, then, is one in which the Xbox
| 360's bid for the mass market is blocked by the Wii for the next two to
| three years, at which point the aging and underpowered Wii gives way
| to a cheaper-than-it-is-now PS3 with a selection of AAA titles that's
| far wider than what the PS3 has at the moment; new installments of
| Playstation's own popular and casual-leaning games; and a slew of
| new franchises from Sony's much-larger studio operation.
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http://ncroal.talk.newsweek.com/default.asp?item=533168

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