Microft Admits: Xbox is Dieing...

[titaniumdonut]

Microsoft-owned MSNBC is carrying an article that talks about how PS2 is far and away more successful than the Xbox in the marketplace, consumers are not buying Xbox products, retailers are not stocking the console, and that it is basically doomed to failure. There are quotes to that effect from retailers and analysts, including Goldman Sachs.

That this article is published by a Microsoft-owned website is all the more important. This is an admission of absolute failure by Microsoft itself.

Time to sell off that Xbox while you still can!

Here is a link to the article and some discussion about the topic.

 

[iamme]

<< Microft Admits: Xbox is Dieing... >>



TitaniumDonut admits: there is no spell check on Anandtech

j/k

 

[Doggiedog]

BS.

The Xbox is selling well in the US but not in Europe where it costs over $400 and Japan. But all in all, it seems to be selling according to plan.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

<< That this article is published by a Microsoft-owned website is all the more important. This is an admission of absolute failure by Microsoft itself. >>



First, "dieing" is not a word. It's "dying".

Second, the article does not say the X-Box is dying; it just says that it is having trouble meeting initial sales projections.

Third, it seems to me this is not an admission by MS just because it is posted on MSNBC; if anything it just shows that MSNBC is not as biased as one might assume.

 

[Rogue]

More FUD from a rookie:

Read the real article here.

 

[StageLeft]

<< That this article is published by a Microsoft-owned website is all the more important. This is an admission of absolute failure by Microsoft itself. >>

As don said that just goes to show that perhaps MSNBC isn't totally MS's bitch. If they were clearly "pro-ms" then nobody would listen to what they hvae to say.

 

[StageLeft]

<< Analysts: Xbox momentum slowing >>

doesn't = "Xbox is dying"

 

[Pepsei]

i'm just holding off my purchase until a viable backup solution is found.

the pending release of the xbox SDK is a good thing.

 

[titaniumdonut]

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<< Analysts: Xbox momentum slowing >>

doesn't = "Xbox is dying" >>



But PS2's momentum is accelerating.

In a marketplace with multiple well-funded competitors, you either keep up with your competitors or you die.

And the Green Screen of Death certainly is not helping move those Xboxes.

 

[FoBoT]

<< it just shows that MSNBC is not as biased as one might assume. >>



but they are still a bunch of communists

 

[Hammer]

lol I think titaniumdonut is shorting MS stock and it hasn't been going well for him.

 

[titaniumdonut]

Bump

 

[Ameesh]

<< lol I think titaniumdonut is shorting MS stock and it hasn't been going well for him. >>




hahaha or hes heavily vested in sun when it was in the $60s, and now hes eating crow literally.

 

[Gunbuster]

If MS can get some Japanese Devs. onboard and pump out some good games, all will be good

even better if they put progressive DVD back into the mix

 

[UberNeuman]

titaniumdonut = titaniumidiot.


Can someone tell me how he can spell "titanium" correctly, but not "dying?"

 

[PsychoAndy]

additionally, i would think that MS is having some distribution problems

everytime i go to BB i ask if they have any xboxes. they tell me they sell out the day they stock them

same for walmart. everybodys got PS2's stocked but i guess xbox cant keep up

my thinking: the demand is there but supply isnt fuffilling it....even at $300 each.

 

[ThaGrandCow]

<< And the Green Screen of Death certainly is not helping move those Xboxes. >>

There is no green screen of death on the XBox. The one pic of an error was an SDK kit where the developer forgot to put in a CD or didn't have all the header files on the DEVELOPMENT console.

 

[glenn1]

Let's see, Microsoft has about $42 billion in cash on the books, and is adding to that at about $3 billion a quarter. I'd say that even if the X-box is dying, that they could hold one helluva funeral with that kinda money.

 

[datalink7]

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<< And the Green Screen of Death certainly is not helping move those Xboxes. >>

There is no green screen of death on the XBox. The one pic of an error was an SDK kit where the developer forgot to put in a CD or didn't have all the header files on the DEVELOPMENT console. >>



Yah, the GSOD is nonexistant.

The XBOX is doing alright, and should do even better after this years E3. E3 is going to be huge for the XBOX. Microsoft has kept very tight control of its PR depeartment on anything to do with the XBOX. It is thought that they are planning a big show for E3.

 

[SunnyD]

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<< And the Green Screen of Death certainly is not helping move those Xboxes. >>

There is no green screen of death on the XBox. The one pic of an error was an SDK kit where the developer forgot to put in a CD or didn't have all the header files on the DEVELOPMENT console. >>



Then explain to me why half the kiosks I walk by in stores have a screen with a mostly green background saying something to the effect of "Error: yadda yadda yadda" on it?

 

[piku]

Yeah, "Green Screens of Death" are real. Sure that one time was just a development kiosk or whatever, but people with the actual consoles have gotten plenty of those screens too.

 

[PlatinumGold]

comon

Xbox may not be dying, but it had a real tough job on it's hands when it was released soo much later than the ps2. only chance they woulda had is if it had been released BEFORE ps2. Nintendo also is hurting but because of GBA and the kids games on gamecube nintendo will stay around. basically it's PS2 and gamecube from here on out. Why would anyone buy an XBox. i just don't get it.

 

[Antoneo]

<< But PS2's momentum is accelerating. >>

Momentum can not accelerate, it is a scalar.

 

[Entity]

<< Why would anyone buy an XBox. i just don't get it. >>


Of all the consoles I've played, XBox is my fav. Just personal preference, I guess.

To assume that because Microsoft isn't currently the #1, they are dying, is blatantly incorrect. They will continue until they triumph.

Rob

 

[Ameesh]

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<< But PS2's momentum is accelerating. >>

Momentum can not accelerate, it is a scalar. >>



actually its not, momentum is a mass times velocity where velocity is a vector quantity making mometum a vector