Nintendo--VS--Microsoft

[gekko]

I gotta pull a old school Bond move here...

Originally Posted by Stonecutter

Everyone who now owns an xbox and lovingly invests in it (ie people not like gekko who don't own the system for only one developer) is going to buy xbox 2 because we love the box.

Everyone? You can't speak for anyone but yourself.

On the cube side, there are several long time nintendo owners who are not satisfied with the cube.

Which means nothing. There are several PS2 owners who are not satisfied. There are several Xbox owners who are not satisfied.

Who owns the cube: Nintendo long timers, people like me. Either they've always follwed nintendo, or they've owned every system, chances are, if you own a cube, you've got some other piece of nintendo hardware in your home.

Chances are? Did you survey Gamecube owners to come up with that statistic? Again, you do not speak for the Nintendo userbase.

Xbox is the first microsoft console, and people are happy with it.

People are happy with Gamecube and PS2 as well. What's your point?

If nintendo is losing money on the gamecube...

Which they are not.

...but making money overall on gba...

Which they are.

...why are they more likely to stay in the game than MS?

It's common sense. A company making profit on a product is more likely to continue that product than a company who is losing large amounts of money on the product. Microsoft is the only company who would do better, not worse, by dropping their product. That makes them more likely.

MS losing money on xbox, making money overall because they're MS.

Microsoft as a company is making money, but Microsoft is budgeting money to a lot more than Xbox. Windows is Microsoft's best product, Xbox is Microsoft's worst. You don't make cuts from other departments to keep your worst selling product on the market.

MS doesn't need to worry about profits, they will just continue to wittle the competors away.

Every company has to worry about profits.

Nintendo = On the way out
Xbox = On the way up

I'm sure you have nothing but your radical opinion to support these claims, so I won't ask.