Xbox 360 Elite vs. classic: the test
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| Basically, unless you are seriously eagle-eyed, have a massive
| friggin screen, or for whatever reason need to use HDMI because
| you're all out of component inputs, your investment in the
| first-gen Xbox 360 is probably safe.
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/26/xbox-360-elite-vs-classic-the-test/
Losses of over $0.3 billion in the last quarter alone, IIRC.
Nintendo Plans to Boost Wii Production
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| Kyoto-based Nintendo Co.'s net profit jumped 77 percent to 174.29 billion
| yen ($1.47 billion) in the year through March, up dramatically from
| 98.38 billion yen a year earlier. Sales soared 90 percent to 966.53
| billion yen ($8.13 billion).
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070427/japan_nintendo.html?.v=7
Related:
Elite Won't Increase Market Share
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| Analyst Billy Pidgeon predicts that the arrival of the Xbox 360
| Elite will not increase Microsoft's market share for 2007.
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http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/11951/Elite_Wont_Increase_Market_Share.html
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| Hence, our heretofore unpublished Vietnam analogy.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.
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| [...]
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| 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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