UnSub
Contributor
Posts: 8064
|
Why, $3.4 billion. This is while the MS Xbox 360 division reportedly makes money. More recent figures would be nice if anyone can find them. Feel free to point out how I missed something important in this story. |
|
|
|
Lakov_Sanite
Terracotta Army
Posts: 7590
|
Why, $3.4 billion. This is while the MS Xbox 360 division reportedly makes money. More recent figures would be nice if anyone can find them. Feel free to point out how I missed something important in this story. WTS used ps3 half off $500 obo |
~a horrific, dark simulacrum that glares balefully at us, with evil intent.
|
|
|
Margalis
Terracotta Army
Posts: 12335
|
For MS it might make sense to lose money in gaming. They want to rule the living room (although they've failed miserably at that for 15 years or so) and they have plenty of other products. Sony? With gaming and TV losing money what the hell do they have left?
|
vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
|
|
|
Trippy
Administrator
Posts: 23657
|
TVs are just a part of their total electronics business and their Electronics division is ~2/3rds of their total revenue. Games is small part of their total business.
|
|
|
|
|
Margalis
Terracotta Army
Posts: 12335
|
I suspect they are losing ground on general consumer electronics though. They haven't had a breakthrough product in a while and their reputation isn't what it once was.
|
vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
|
|
|
stray
Terracotta Army
Posts: 16818
has an iMac.
|
They make a lot of good stuff. People are just willing to settle for not-quite-as-good to completely cheap shit.
I think their cameras suck though.
|
|
|
|
|
ahoythematey
Terracotta Army
Posts: 1729
|
Last I heard, they were banking on OLED tech being the next big thing for them.
|
|
|
|
|
Fabricated
Moderator
Posts: 8978
~Living the Dream~
|
Wow, so the MS Games division actually posted a profit again? That's amazing considering it hasn't done that more than a few times since it started.
|
"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
|
|
|
Merusk
Terracotta Army
Posts: 27449
Badge Whore
|
I suspect they are losing ground on general consumer electronics though. They haven't had a breakthrough product in a while and their reputation isn't what it once was.
That was why we had the story about them moving the President off to 'dead end land" about, what, a year ago. They'd been focusing on super high-end shit and losing big shares of the market. Things like the $5,000 robot and other shit that was linked in the thread but I had so little interest in I can't even remember it now. |
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
|
|
|
bhodi
Moderator
Posts: 6817
No lie.
|
They recently axed their SXRD TV line and are focusing solely on LCD TVs for the foreseeable future. They aren't the only ones, though.
|
|
|
|
|
Aez
Terracotta Army
Posts: 1369
|
That's a good news. I'm always happy to see big companies fail after they decided they were better than their customers. It's like those stupid american car companies, what the hell were they thinking? The sad part of those stories is that the CEO responsible for the shitty decisions are always "compensated" with millions.
|
|
|
|
|
Engels
Terracotta Army
Posts: 9029
inflicts shingles.
|
I was sorta half hoping that Japanese corporate culture might be different and that some key CEOs might get handed a sepuku knife.
|
I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
|
|
|
|
Author
