Nintendo and SONY doomed. Microsoft is doomed too? - Forbes

You know, deep down, on the inside, all game sytems are a bit doomed. can't we just get along?

"Sold to Sony"?

Can you buy a gaming division with Food Stamps?

Cause someone has to balance out the anti sony threads.

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[quote=""]"What can we expect next at Microsoft?
Ballmer has committed to fight to the death in his effort to defend & extend Windows. So expect death as resources are poured into the unwinnable battle to convert users from iOS and Android.
As resources are poured out of the company in the Quixotic effort to prolong Windows/Office, any hope of future dividends falls to zero.
Expect enormous layoffs over the next 3 years. Something like 50-60%, or more, of employees will go away.
Expect closure of the long-suffering on-line division in order to conserve resources.
The entertainment division will be spun off, sold to someone like Sony or possibly Barnes & Noble, or dramatically reduced in size. Unable to make a profit it will increasingly be seen as a distraction to the battle for saving Windows and Microsoft leadership has long shown they have no idea how to profitably grow this business unit.
As more and more of the market shifts to competitive cloud infrastructure Apple, Amazon, Samsung and others will grow significantly. Microsoft, losing its user base, will demonstrate its inability to build a new business in the cloud, mimicking its historical failures with Zune (mobile music) and Microsoft mobile phones. Microsoft server and tool sales will suffer, creating a much more difficult profit environment for the sole remaining profitable division."

"Microsoft makes more than 75% of its profits from Windows and Office. Less than 25% comes from its vaunted servers and tools. And Microsoft makes nothing from its xBox/Kinect entertainment division, while losing vast sums in its on-line division (negative $350M-$750M/quarter). No matter how much anyone likes the non-Windows Microsoft products, without the historical Windows/Office sales and profits Microsoft is not sustainable."


"Game over. Ballmer loses. And if you keep your money invested in Microsoft it will disappear along with the company."campzor

Red highlighted to keep it SW related!

The same guy that did your article (Adam Hartung) predicts doom for sony too, so are we to believe that too? http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2012/04/20/sayonara-sony-how-industrial-mba-style-leadership-killed-once-great-company/

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[QUOTE="RR360DD"]Unlike Sony, Microsoft have vast amounts of cash and don't need to start selling off buildings :lol: I somewhat agree with the article, Ballmer needs to go.NineTailedGoku

Um just because they have more money doesnt guarantee them a profit as the article just stated. Why would MS bother with something that doesnt make them money compared to their more profitable products? Lol @ Lems thinking MS rules the market because they have the deepest pockets, sorry, doesnt work that way.

I wasn't talking about profit dumbass. Thread says M$ is doomed, which is far from true because of all the cash reserves they have. And the Xbox is profitable, its other areas dragging them down

HAHAHAHA TLHBFR :lol:

The Xbox is a total FAILURE! LOL :lol:

HAHAHAHA TLHBFR :lol:

The Xbox is a total FAILURE! LOL :lol:

Eddie-Vedder

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[QUOTE="Eddie-Vedder"]

HAHAHAHA TLHBFR :lol:

The Xbox is a total FAILURE! LOL :lol:

blue_hazy_basic

Well if Microsoft is going to die, it's the same with the Sony Company. This would make a giant crash in the market. But we have still to consider a new oponent to those 2 consoles. Nobody knows When Apple is going to make their Death Star (of course in the shape of the apple logo) and will vaporize Microsoft and Sony. Microsoft Focused on the Console market so much they opened up in the PC Marked and i am sure Apple will use this opportunity.

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"]

1. Micrsoft is nowhere near doomed in any way, shape, or form.

2. The idea that the Xbox brand (and the entire entertainment division, for that matter) will be sold to Barnes and Noble is ludicrous, and the idea that it will be sold to Sony, who is losing money like it's going out of style and can't even support their own goddamn console brand properly, much less someone else's, is beyond laughable.

NineTailedGoku

You sound upset? You okay?