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So in hindsight, we have to give credit to MS for sticking with it for so long Perhaps we should wait to see whether it ever pays back that 8 billion dollars b

by omh 15y ago

So in hindsight, we have to give credit to MS for sticking with it for so long Perhaps we should wait to see whether it ever pays back that 8 billion dollars before giving them any credit?

hollerith 15y ago
The main value Microsoft derives from the Xbox business is not the profit they make from it, but rather the insurance policy it represents against disruption of the PC market by the console market. It turns out that the console market never did expand enough to disrupt the PC market (the way tablets are currently threatening to do) but when Microsoft spent that 8 billion, they could not have known that.