Microsoft Winning Console Wars (According to Microsoft)
Yes, you heard that right: Microsoft is winning the console wars. According to a Microsoft representative, Microsoft rakes in 42% of the revenue of all the current-gen console and game sales (and peripherals and online services). Now the question is: are they telling the truth? Hey, I’m not calling Microsoft liars but they have been known to twist the truth at times. If this is the truth, this is a remarkable number. It just proves once again that even though Nintendo sold many, many more consoles than Microsoft, software is really what makes money. And considering that they do have the most sold game of 2007 exclusively on their platform, who would really argue that they haven’t sold the most games. I doubt that number will be as high this year, because Sony looks like their library of games will drastically improve and Nintendo just can’t seem to do wrong. We’ll see in a year or so I guess.
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March 11th, 2008
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March 11th, 2008
Occasionally a game company will say the amount shipped to a store is the actual amount sold, when that is far from the truth - just because you shipped five million consoles to stores doesn’t mean you sold that many. However, this is still intriguing news. The 360 is my favorite next-gen console, the only thing I loathe about it is the flawed hardware.
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March 11th, 2008
Of course there are going to say they are winning. Why would they say anything else?
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March 12th, 2008
Winning?!?
They were the first 7th gen consoles out, no wonder why they are winning. But selling video games should not be the race…or the money for that matter. It should be about the gameage. Microsoft should button up their suit jackets, re-fix their tie, and get the heck out of the gaming industry. You hear the Microsoft, go back to making your Operating Systems because we don’t need you!!
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April 10th, 2008
I don’t care what people say, in particular what Microsoft representatives say, the console wars are far from over.
To illustrate this I created a map of the current situation using bCisive (http://bcisive.austhink.com/)
http://bickr.austhink.com/bickr_media/bcisive_widget_images/11_rationale_image.png
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April 11th, 2008
that map is really really good. it is accurate and covers everything
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