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

Cause someone has to balance out the anti sony threads.

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"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."

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Being doomed is the new cool thing.

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.

The entertainment division will be spun off, sold to someone like Sony

So everybody is doomed now ?

Cool.

So everybody is doomed now ?

Cool.

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All 3 will go out of business and Sega will pick up the pieces :twisted:

Interesting that you capitalized all of Sony's letters... Seems like you're trying to communicate that they you think they're better, on a higher level, or more powerful than the other two. Am I right in my assertion?Drasonak

Sony is buying Xbox!?:shock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp3jda591M4

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So everybody is doomed now ?

Cool.

RR360DD

All 3 will go out of business and Sega will pick up the pieces :twisted:

2014; Revenge of the Sega :o

Such weird choices on who would buy the entertainment division a book store and a company selling their main office buildings just to raise cash.

Such weird choices on who would buy the entertainment division a book store and a company selling their main office buildings just to raise cash.

CanYouDiglt

Barns and Noble Box 360

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.

DarkLink77

Come back a year from now. Ballmer is bringing the company down.

I hope the xbox brand dies. In my 31 years of playing video games microsoft is the worst thing to ever happen to gaming.

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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.

dream431ca

Come back a year from now. Ballmer is bringing the company down.

This doomed stuff is really becoming a trend in the media of late. Perhaps since the world didn't in fact end with all the Mayan Calandar hype, this makes them feel more validated?

They need to be doomed by doom4 otherwise they're gonna suck

No links from sources had anything to do with xbox/kinect making $0 NADA ... just some dudes blog

Well I think we found the problem then.

Game companies should stop trying to be the Competition.

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.

DarkLink77

You sound upset? You okay?

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.RR360DD

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.

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.

DarkLink77

You know what I take from that article? The first sentance:

"After years of product stagnation, and a big market shift toward mobile devices from PCs, Microsofts future relied on the company seeing customers demonstrate they were ready to jump in heavily for Windows8 products including the new Surface tablet."

I argued for days in another thread saying that PCs were on the way out, hermits were all over me like flied on cow dung.

Where I think Hartung got it wrong was with the Entertainment division (which, BTW, includes their tablet).

MS has been betting for years that consoles, or devices like them, will be in every home. The idea is, they may replace PCs; or at the very least serve as the media center for the 21st century - that's why they got into the console race in the first place. I don't see them moving from that strategy. With tech like smartglass, I think they are going to try and merge the new tablet market with smartphones and consoles. That is just my opinion, though...

Cause someone has to balance out the anti sony threads.

Gaf link(link)

Source

[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

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:P

It's surprising to hear that MS is losing money on Xbox

How can that be?

With all the ads and XBL fees, how can they still be losing money on it?

Anyway

I still love my 360 and will use it for a big chunk of my gaming, whether I get a 720 is up in the air until I see it.

ha, has anyone seen page 2? All the guy does is write blogs bashing MS. The comments are great, hes like a SW troll!

People get paid to write this garbage. Sheesh.Haziqonfire

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So everybody is doomed now ?

Cool.

RR360DD

All 3 will go out of business and Sega will pick up the pieces :twisted:

You know what I take from that article? The first sentance:

"After years of product stagnation, and a big market shift toward mobile devices from PCs, Microsofts future relied on the company seeing customers demonstrate they were ready to jump in heavily for Windows8 products including the new Surface tablet."

I argued for days in another thread saying that PCs were on the way out, hermits were all over me like flied on cow dung.

Where I think Hartung got it wrong was with the Entertainment division (which, BTW, includes their tablet).

MS has been betting for years that consoles, or devices like them, will be in every home. The idea is, they may replace PCs; or at the very least serve as the media center for the 21st century - that's why they got into the console race in the first place. I don't see them moving from that strategy. With tech like smartglass, I think they are going to try and merge the new tablet market with smartphones and consoles. That is just my opinion, though...

StormyJoe

ha, has anyone seen page 2? All the guy does is write blogs bashing MS. The comments are great, hes like a SW troll!

blue_hazy_basic

Not until now. Thanks for the heads up. I always take new blogs with a grain of salt.

MS DOOMED, SONY DOOMED, NINTENDOOMED.... Worms will take over the world.dobzilian

We'll be needing a name for Samsung fans too!

Ya and people also said the Mayans new the end of the world too. This article is just as accurate as the Mayans calender to go off of for the end of the world.

Cows are doomed.

That's Kuraimen's blog isnt it?. I bet it is...

Lems on Blast. :lol:

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So everybody is doomed now ?

Cool.

RR360DD

All 3 will go out of business and Sega will pick up the pieces :twisted:

Sega and Atari will rise again!:twisted: