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

[Raj Goel]

Guys,

   Doesn't matter what MS lost on each xbox or 360.

   They made $$$ on it in spades.

   See:  Gilette Principle

   In this case:
Game sdk licensing + royalties
3rd party add-on royalties
And the monster that is Halo

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Mark <kevin.mark at verizon.net>

Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:16:39 
To:nylug-talk at nylug.org
Subject: Re: [nylug-talk] The future of Zimbra after Microsoft's bid
	for	Yahoo!


On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:51:58PM -0500, Ajai Khattri wrote:
> 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.

Supposedly the Wii has helped to expand the market to include more women
and seniors with its 'casual games', So its not the hardware itself that
accounts for the success but the software.
-K
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