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[News] [Rival] XBox Turnoffs -- Microsoft Only Extracts Money, Nothing is Free

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] XBox Turnoffs -- Microsoft Only Extracts Money, Nothing is Free
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:02:02 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Microsoft, what are you doing?

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| What should I spend my money on? Knowing that the Xbox I cannot customize 
| anything without downloading a theme that I have to pay for, or going with 
| the PS3 that allows me to store and send my own pictures/videos/music to 
| friends? I honestly, just may go with the competition, because in the long 
| run, it's more bang for my buck.    
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http://www.audicast.net/mswhy.html


Related:

Microsoft forbids free Xbox content 

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| Tim Sweeney disclosed how Microsoft is barring their efforts to
| offer free content for owners of Gears of War. Guys from Epic
| created six maps (two of which have been released to gamers)
| for this hit-title which earned Microsoft millions of dollars,
| but now Epic cannot release the remaining four maps. Reason is
| very simple: money.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38823


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
|        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 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| Hence, our heretofore unpublished Vietnam analogy.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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