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I thought Microsoft was burning something like a billion dollars a year in losses in order to in order to be in the video game console market. Is that impressio
by sdbryan 16y ago
I thought Microsoft was burning something like a billion dollars a year in losses in order to in order to be in the video game console market. Is that impression wrong? Has MS made a profit yet in games?
- cubicle67 16y agoThey haven't recouped all the money they'd invested yet (still about $4 billion short), but they are now turning a profit of a few hundred million each quarter
- gmlk 16y agoMeaning they stopped digging a deeper hole? Or that they do continue to dig, only now it's filling up faster then they can dig?
- cookiecaper 16y agoMeaning that in a few years their investment in the games market will have paid off probably. Investments are long-term strategies.
- glhaynes 16y agoVideo games are such a volatile market, I wouldn't say "probably" about much of anything. That's a big chunk of the danger in dropping so much money to try to grab some market share, expecting to make the money back someday. Of course, at the same time, one couldn't expect Microsoft to stay out of such a "convergence" market, so I'm not by any means saying that Xbox has been a mistake, either.