[Am-info] Life expectancy of Xbox

[John Poltorak]

With Microsoft sunstantially cutting the price of the Xbox by around $100 
or so they must be running up huge losses. I keep reading about the loss 
they were supposed to be making before the price cut and it seemed like a 
pretty high figure then. What could it be now?

Does anyone have any idea of the development costs? It would be 
interesting to see any of Microsoft figures about when they expected to 
see some payback. As it is now, the Xbox must be causing a severe 
haemorrhage, but I suspect Bill Gates has a stubborn streak and won't want 
to pull the plug on it. He may even throw more money at it in an attempt 
to recover some investment. I hope he does.

Can anyone speculate on when Microsoft will pull the plug?

There are quite a few signs around the place the Microsoft is tightening 
up on expenditure and there are reports of the company shedding jobs in 
various places.

BTW, I wonder if there are any Xbox viruses yet... 


-- 
John