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1. I tend to doubt that they are taking that much of a bath. And if they are, I tend to doubt that they aren’t going to be profitable on licensing and game sales.

   Comment by Blaine Moore — Dec 28th 2005 @ 2:19 pm

2. Blaine, you’d be surprised. Microsoft is fighting a big gorilla in Sony and they’re trying to gain market share. The one thing Microsoft has going for them is a huge mound of cash to help fund the battle. MS is losing money on xbox, for sure, but the extent is hard to calculate.

   It makes sense though… throttle the supply so you can hype it up and reduce losses until the manufacturing process costs improve.

   Comment by jim — Dec 28th 2005 @ 5:14 pm

3. All console makers lose money on hardware. Microsoft lost around $150 on each XBOX they sold and now they are losing more than that isn’t suprising. It is the Gillete razor concept, give away the razor and sell the blades.

   Comment by sam — Dec 29th 2005 @ 1:43 am

4. You just don’t give up, do you? Kind of like me posting about the cost of pets.

   Comment by FMF — Dec 29th 2005 @ 6:58 am

5. Heheh, but the benifits of having a pet outweigh the costs, and I am not so sure the same is applicable to an XBox.

   Comment by Blaine Moore — Dec 29th 2005 @ 8:04 am

6. Yea, if you’d rather have a pet than say…put your kid through college…it’s worth the cost.

   Comment by FMF — Dec 29th 2005 @ 1:30 pm

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