3 ms·
No, they didn't. Over the course of its life, the XBox brand is still billions in the red. It only started turning up a relatively small profit a year or two ag
by latch 14y ago
No, they didn't. Over the course of its life, the XBox brand is still billions in the red. It only started turning up a relatively small profit a year or two ago. It has a long way to go before anyone should consider it successful.
The problem with consoles is that there's no brand loyalty (except for Nintendo). It only takes 1 bad console for an established player to vanish, and 1 good console for a newcomer to succeed.
Xbox live might be changing that, but it's still waayyy too early to call it either a success or failure. Though, certainly financially, it's been a small disaster so far.
- Smudge 14y agoWelcome to consumer electronics. Comparatively speaking, Microsoft has fared quite well.
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoComparatively speaking, Apple has done much better in consumer electronics.
- lmm 14y agoSure. Apple has done spectacularly well. It's a big jump from "not as good as Apple" to "worst CEO in America".
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoI won't make any judgement on leadership, and want to just point out this fact. A peer of Microsoft is succeeding very well in consumer electronics, meaning Microsoft could potentially as well and would become insanely successful (big profits beyond enterprise). Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft and so would love for them to realize that potential. I'm sure it is much more complicated than "replace CEO" to get there.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]