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Originally Posted by wizwor
The xbox has been very successful despite entering a market dominated by Nintendo and Sony. Xbox now sells more consoles than either. Both competitors are losing a lot of money.
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Just as a note, Nintendo is only dropping recently because the Wii is entering EOL and the 3DS stumbled out of the gate. Otherwise, they have done very well. The Wii is still the top seller overall for this console generation, even with the deeper pockets of Microsoft and Sony.
Getting back to the subject at hand, you can never count Microsoft out of anything they want to get involved with. Even if something like Zune is a failure, it is very likely that the next version will be better. Course, the real question is, is this going to be the traditional Microsoft, or is this all going to end up being Ballmer's folly? That really is an open question right now, but it hasn't been looking good for Microsoft recently. And who knows if Windows 8 is going to be a good tablet OS.