27th September 2005, 2:49 PM
I have to say, if this happens to MS again, they will not produce another console. I can't see them justifying it. I mean, when you spend more making a system than you get back from sales, selling a LOT just means you lost a lot. The only hope is to make up for it all in game sales. Apparently, MS didn't do that. Sure they are doing pretty well in America, in second place (barely) with Nintendo, but world-wide, not so much, and it hurts them. I mean, what games is MS themselves selling? Halo 2? Anything else? They have Rare, but not enough people seem to care about that. I'm sure the sales of PDZ are going to be stellar, so long as there's some distant link printed on the box between it and Halo and they hype it up as much as they did Halo, but other than that? It's a shame really....
I don't think Nintendo is going to "buy Rare back" or anything, so here's something else. Rare should become independant.
I don't think Nintendo is going to "buy Rare back" or anything, so here's something else. Rare should become independant.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)