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So has Facebook. Does that make them not formidable?

Almost every console loses money at launch. Consoles start as loss leaders. The XBox 360 recently turned a profit: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/24/the-xbox-turns-a-profit/ ... and the value of the platform is likely to continue going up.

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"Almost every"? I don't think many Nintendo consoles subscribe to that.

If the xbox360 is profitable now, it would still need to repay 6 years of massive losses.

The xbox360 is an amazing machine. You guys need to be more positive!

Who cares about the 360? This time around Sony and MS came out with a more powerful 'same thing' while Wii innovated and made something really interesting. Why, my wife is even considering letting me get one of those. :)

I have a 360 and a Wii, the Wii controller is fucking amazing until it becomes a complete unresponsive pain in the ass with 90% of the games on the market. My most played games are WiiSports and Mario Galaxy, and in the past 9 months I've bought 1 game for it and it's a present! I'm considering getting Animal Crossing and that's probably it until the pre-summer game rush when I might buy 1 more game.

I bought my Xbox 360 about a month ago, I've got 5 games for it (10 for my Wii that I've had since release). I've got 6 games I'm waiting for the christmas price to get, which means that in under 3 months it'll have got more games than my Wii does.

I'm sorry, but the Wii really needs a kick in the ass because just like the PowerGlove by Nintendo, the controller has amazing potential but it really fucking sucks at the moment.

That's strange, this is the first negative review I've heard (not that I've been digging for them). Most of my friends have one and every game I've plaid on one of their systems was amazing. They all also seemed to be really impressed with the things you can do on the Zelda game (and most have bought the "crossbow" thing for the controller, etc.).

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