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Is Microsoft’s Xbox 360's Success Really All That Successful?
>> From cinemablend.com:
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As you may have read here on CB Games, Microsoft had some wins and losses with their entertainment division throughout 2006. But while they netted an income from the entertainment division of $2.63 billion at the end of December 2006, according to Internet News, what was the exact costs and catches for the Xbox 360? Well, let's have a look and see what we find.
One of the things we've all wondered about is how well Microsoft is making due with the costly next-gen hardware, considering that the original Xbox was abandoned for being costly, if memory serves me correctly. But Microsoft is apparently faring rather evenly with last year's entertainment division losses (which included the Xbox 360), as the operating downside of $414 million was the total expenditure at the end of 2006.
Hands down, it's quite indisputable that the Xbox 360 has far surpassed its first-generation sibling, in both hardware and software sales. So in essence, it appears the success of the Xbox 360 is quite successful, so far. I mean, it's certainly not a blockbuster success like the Nintendo DS, the Nintendo Wii, or the PS2, but in regards to Microsoft's console efforts the Xbox 360 isn't quite slothing around like the original Xbox. We'll have to track how well Microsoft fares by the end of this year to see if the software continues on an upward trend, especially with triple-A PS3 titles on the horizon.
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