Post #101,454
5/12/03 12:26:37 PM
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Electronic Arts gives the finger to Microsoft.
Electronic Arts online gaming will be exclusive to Sony for at least a year. It appears Microsoft offered them its standard deal: "You give us your product for free, we feast and you live on the crumbs we drop".
EA Chairman Larry Probst's comment was, "There's a 100 foot wall between us". At least there's somebody with some brains and balls in this industry.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
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Post #101,455
5/12/03 12:28:38 PM
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Linkage.
Courtesy of news.google.com
[link|http://money.cnn.com/2003/05/12/technology/e3_ea_sony/|http://money.cnn.com...ology/e3_ea_sony/]
After 9/11, Bush made two statements:
1. "Terrorists hate America because America is a land of freedom and opportunity."
2. "We intend to attack the root causes of terrorism."
Sounds like everything is going according to plan.
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Post #101,464
5/12/03 1:14:38 PM
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Sweet
Darrell Spice, Jr. [link|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #101,615
5/13/03 8:51:08 AM
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They must have been learning off Sony.
Because Sony knows what Microsoft are about and certainly won't take any crap from them. Sony Computer Entertainment probably drive Bill Gates up the wall. :-)
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #101,779
5/14/03 3:07:33 AM
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Not only that, Xbox losses nearly doubled at Microsoft
[link|http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/13/NHxboxdown_1.html|Xbox losses nearly doubled at Microsoft]
"... The division, which also includes the Xbox game console, PC games, consumer hardware and Microsoft TV, posted an operating loss of $190 million for its fiscal third quarter that ended March 31, compared with a $97 million loss a year earlier, according to the filing.
Quarterly revenue at the division fell to $493 million from $943 million a year ago, according to Microsoft's internal accounting mechanism. The drop is largely attributable to lower sales of Xbox game machines and games in all geographic regions, Microsoft said in the filing."
What is Microsoft going to do?
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Post #101,827
5/14/03 10:59:33 AM
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nothing
[link|http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/techearnings/2003-05-13-xbox-losses_x.htm|Microsoft doubles loss in Xbox division] Desktop software, including the Windows operating system, had an operating profit of $1.99 billion on revenue of $2.5 billion. Microsoft's mode of operation is to use monopoly profits to underwrite anything else they want to gain market share in. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #101,995
5/15/03 3:08:26 AM
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Correct, but so far it's not working ...
in the game console market, and if more game publishers are as smart as Electronic Arts they never will achieve a monopoly position.
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Post #102,056
5/15/03 9:58:40 AM
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cell phones either
seems other companies are finally realizing it just doesn't pay to play with billy.
Darrell Spice, Jr. [link|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #102,062
5/15/03 10:23:52 AM
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Was that a typo? Shouldn't billy have been bully?
[link|mailto:jbrabeck@attbi.com|Joe]
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Post #102,198
5/16/03 6:01:47 AM
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Works either way, I would say.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
| -- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne. |
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