[nylug-talk] The future of Zimbra after Microsoft's bid for Yahoo!

[Ajai Khattri]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Ron Guerin wrote:

> I would however, cite Xbox as a success for them.

We should differentiate between commercial success and success in terms of 
gamers' buzz and software titles.

> Admittedly I don't 
> know if it generates income or is a drag on the bottom line

I think on the original Xbox they lost something like $130 per console. On 
the 360 that's down to $71 per console (might be less now, not sure). In 
2007, they sold 4,620,000 consoles, so that's a loss of around $328M.

As we all know, the newest sexiest tech is often not successful. The 
Nintendo Wii and DS outsold all other consoles last year even though the 
Wii is not much better than the old GameCube technology-wise.



-- 
Aj. (who likes to play the odd game or two sometimes).