[Forget about it being profitable in 2008. Peter has jumped the ship and sales
have recently sunk, just like the price.]
Microsoft: Xbox profits may take at least two more years
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| Microsoft COO Kevin Turner admitted last week that it may take at least two
| to three more years before the Xbox 360 turns a profit.
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http://gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=129788&AFC-HSUIT&ATTR=DIGG
The Xbox 360 Failure Rate Study
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| Of these 156 consoles, 72 failed (46.1%). The average time until failure was
| 7.85 months (range of 1 day to 22 months).
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http://www.lagxbl.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11726
Related:
Updated PS3 Linux Distro Kit released
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| Geoff Levand just announced an update to the PS3 Linux Distro Kit:”For those
| interested, an updated PS3 Linux Distributor’s Starter Kit (v1.4) was
| released..."
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http://lkmltimes.brucalipto.org/announce/updated-ps3-linux-distro-kit-released/
Pachter: PS3 will outsell Xbox 360 for July
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| Oft quoted analyst Michael Pachter of Wedbush Morgan has attempted to predict
| the official game hardware/software sales for July in North America. His
| prediction; Sony PS3 up, Microsoft Xbox 360 down.
|
| [...]
|
| To explain the rise of the PS3 in July: "We expect a bump in PS3 hardware and
| software sales due to the PS3 price cuts. Sony stated that sales of PS3
| approximately doubled after the price cut, with sales before the price cut
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| averaging 20,000 units per week."
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14069&Itemid=1063
Microsoft secretly sabotage PS3 Euro-launches
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| Microsoft pulled no punches yesterday during the European launch of the
| PlayStation 3. Deciding that deviousness was the order of the day, they
| had agents in both London and Paris throwing monkey wrenches into the
| works at Sony-sponsored events that included:
|
| * Handing out chairs to the weary fans waiting in the PS3 lines that
| were printed with a link to this site on the back of them.
|
| * Sending SMS messages to game journalists saying "The Xbox 360 team
| wishes you a good night."
|
| * Driving boats past the Sony event adorned with "XBOX 360 HEARTS YOU"
| signs.
|
| * Arming themselves with whistles and blowing them from rooftops to
| drown out the noise of Sony PR.
|
| 'shortly after 22 hours, several specialized journalists receive a sms
| from Microsoft's marketing team: "Xbox TEAM wishes you a good evening".
| A few minutes later, a barge flanked with large streamers "Xbox 360
| loves you" passes back and forth in front of Sony's party. On its roof,
| a bunch of employees of Microsoft armed with whistles whistle the sworn
| enemy. The schoolkid joke amuses'
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http://www.joystiq.com/2007/03/23/microsoft-secret-agents-resort-to-subterfuge-at-ps3-euro-launche/
http://tinyurl.com/2ymwfs
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