NeoPlayStation
10-04-2007, 04:39 PM
Microsoft is the King of Cash. They can buy almost anything (Take 2) and anyone (Paramount execs) on the planet. It seems the only thing Microsoft can't buy is 1st place in the gaming industry. No matter how much they spend, no matter how many loyal fanBoys they collect along the way, they just can't seem to get over the hump. The Wii hump seems insurmountable for now and the PS3 hump has the potential of eclipsing even the likes of the PS2 in a few years.
It seems like every decision Microsoft makes is not only wrong, that would be an understatement. Their decisions are "Galactically Wrong" if there is such a thing. Just this year they paid $50 million dollars to Take 2 for exclusivity rights to GTAIV content that no one will see until Q4 2008 at the earliest.
Next was the $150 million dollars that they handed over to Paramount which basically says, Paramount will release their movies on HD-DVD Format and not Blu-Ray Format for an 18 month period of time. In this particular case, Microsoft is hoping that within the next 18 months, the 2 million people that went out and bought Blu-Ray players & PS3s will switch over to HD-DVD. Uhmmm... No! That won't happen.
Last, but certainly not lease is Microsoft's $1.5 Billion dollar attempt to rid itself of the dreaded "Red Ring of Death" through the likes of the Falcon Mother board and the 65nm CPU. Well... to all of our surprise... that plan didn't work either. The first reports of the RROD have been coming in. It seems that the XBox360 Halo 3 edition, which is fitted with the new Falcon MB & 65nm CPU is overheating & malfunctioning. When was the Halo 3 Launch??? It was 1 Week ago. Let me repeat that just incase you think you read it incorrectly. The NEW Halo 360 systems that came out 1 week ago are already malfunctioning! (http://n4g.com/xbox360/News-71365.aspx)
Now that we have that cleared up, let's wrap up this blog with some simple math. The XBox Division started this year off being ruffly $5.7 Billion in the red (as reported by Forbes). Now add the $50 million dollars flushed down the Take 2 Toilet + the $150 Million that was flushed down the Paramount toilet (assuming the 2 million people that own Blu-Ray players don't switch to HD-DVD) + the 1.5 Billion used to NOT fix the Red Ring of Death problem = almost $8 Billion dollars in the red. OUCH!
Wait it gets worse... Nintendo has the inexpensive console market nailed down with the Wii, and Sony has the High-End market nailed down with the PS3. So where does that leave Microsoft? It leaves them holding an obsolete, DVD playing, non-HD console that is neither High-End like the PS3 nor Cheap and Fun like the Wii and will most likely malfunction out of the box. It's like watching a real life 3 Stooges Movie right in front of your eyes. For Microsoft though, this can't be funny.
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It seems like every decision Microsoft makes is not only wrong, that would be an understatement. Their decisions are "Galactically Wrong" if there is such a thing. Just this year they paid $50 million dollars to Take 2 for exclusivity rights to GTAIV content that no one will see until Q4 2008 at the earliest.
Next was the $150 million dollars that they handed over to Paramount which basically says, Paramount will release their movies on HD-DVD Format and not Blu-Ray Format for an 18 month period of time. In this particular case, Microsoft is hoping that within the next 18 months, the 2 million people that went out and bought Blu-Ray players & PS3s will switch over to HD-DVD. Uhmmm... No! That won't happen.
Last, but certainly not lease is Microsoft's $1.5 Billion dollar attempt to rid itself of the dreaded "Red Ring of Death" through the likes of the Falcon Mother board and the 65nm CPU. Well... to all of our surprise... that plan didn't work either. The first reports of the RROD have been coming in. It seems that the XBox360 Halo 3 edition, which is fitted with the new Falcon MB & 65nm CPU is overheating & malfunctioning. When was the Halo 3 Launch??? It was 1 Week ago. Let me repeat that just incase you think you read it incorrectly. The NEW Halo 360 systems that came out 1 week ago are already malfunctioning! (http://n4g.com/xbox360/News-71365.aspx)
Now that we have that cleared up, let's wrap up this blog with some simple math. The XBox Division started this year off being ruffly $5.7 Billion in the red (as reported by Forbes). Now add the $50 million dollars flushed down the Take 2 Toilet + the $150 Million that was flushed down the Paramount toilet (assuming the 2 million people that own Blu-Ray players don't switch to HD-DVD) + the 1.5 Billion used to NOT fix the Red Ring of Death problem = almost $8 Billion dollars in the red. OUCH!
Wait it gets worse... Nintendo has the inexpensive console market nailed down with the Wii, and Sony has the High-End market nailed down with the PS3. So where does that leave Microsoft? It leaves them holding an obsolete, DVD playing, non-HD console that is neither High-End like the PS3 nor Cheap and Fun like the Wii and will most likely malfunction out of the box. It's like watching a real life 3 Stooges Movie right in front of your eyes. For Microsoft though, this can't be funny.
http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8417293&publicUserId=5789401