Gaming Microsoft and portables??!

[Shane12_01]

Hey I'm hearing rumers of microsoft creating a hand held is this true or is this just a stupid rumer tell me if you guys herd or know anything.

[Semjaza]

There's been rumors of a "X-Boy" since MS pretty much put out the original Xbox. Nothing has come out of it and none of the rumors have really even been that reliable or solid. Considering the DS has decimated the PSP in recent weeks (the DS sold nearly 800,000 units in one week in Japan alone), I would think MS wouldn't even want to try right now.

[Anime Elf]

Isn't Microsoft also losing money for every X-Box 360 they sell? So if their "X-Boy" or whatever was released, wouldn't it more likely than not just lose them money (based on how things are going at the moment)?

[Semjaza]

The hope with that is that there will eventually be enough 360's out there that they'd be making the money off games and liscensing fees. They did a similar thing with the original Xbox and Sony has done the same with the PS2, PSP and likely the PS3. It's kind of become a common practice... eventually, when manufacturing costs drop, they plan to make a slight profit off the hardware as well. So, considering, I don't think that in and of itself is a major deterant.

[50 cent]

[quote name='Anime Elf']Isn't Microsoft also losing money for every X-Box 360 they sell? So if their "X-Boy" or whatever was released, wouldn't it more likely than not just lose them money (based on how things are going at the moment)?[/quote]

Ya thats true and thats why there I there is such a shortage of 360 right now and like the person above me said manufacturing cost will drop. Oh and microsoft just added another manufacturing partner to help with the shortage of 360's.