11/30/2005


MICRO REALLY SOFT

Late Add: 11/30 @ 2:30AM

MICROSOFT STOCK AFTER "NO X-BOXES AVAILABLE" NEWS HITS INVESTORS----This AM the business magazines are beginning to look too. A very few on line stores are offering only the PREMIUM model, and that for $849 with no absolute guarantee of delivery.

If you worked
in any investment firm yesterday morning you would hear the same scream: Microsoft is the worst run company since GM. Why the screaming? There are no XBox 360s to be had anywhere. This seems impossible since the demand for the upcoming product was evident as early as last Labor Day when the local discounters, Frys and Best Buy, both had signs in their windows telling people that XBoxes were not coming out til after Thanksgiving and sorry (official release date was supposed to be 11/22). Microsoft is a company whose time has past. They have literally driven an entire market over to Sony which will have their product out after the first of the year. Bill Gates, genius no more. This is worse than dumb. It is calamitous both for the company and the shareholders. You can't run a company like this.

Can you?

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MaxedOutMama said...

You can run it this way. But it won't be all that profitable!

Anonymous said...

Howard why would they screw up so badly on this? I can understand underestimating demand but on such a large scale? it's almost as if they did this on purpose. it isn't like they don't have the capital to build up an adequate inventory.

Howard said...

MSFT has a history of bringing product out too quickly that has bugs, failing to bring other product out when they said they would, and in some cases, like the MSIE 7, not at all. In this case, unlike the others, it's costing them dearly and in every respect you can imagine.

Anonymous said...

It's ill-advised to assume that MS has driven an entire market to Sony by failing to have adequate units of the 360 available at launch. Brand loyalty in the console gaming industry is as firm and resolute as, say, the auto industry USED to be. MS's primary goal was to beat Sony out of the gate with their new system, and THAT decision was based primarily on penetrating the Japanese console market where Sony is king. We'll see if the gamble was worth it when the 360 debuts in Japan in next week.

Additionally, Sony and Nintendo are both reported to still be undecided as to what their next-gen consoles will actually consist of in terms of hardware and design with recent reports suggesting that Nintendo's Revolution will fall far short of performance expectations. Advantage (so far) MS.

MS still has two things going for it: the number of 360 preorders ensures that 99% of all units delivered until well into the new year are already effectively sold. Additionally, the reviews are in and it appears that the 360 is everything that it was hyped to be and then some. MS also enjoys the advantage of their Live! online gaming system with neither Sony nor Nintendo having anything that can possibly hope to compete against it.

This also isn't unprecedented with virtually every other major console released in the last 7 or 8 years being in short supply from launch. Nintendo's GC, GameBoy Advance and DS systems, Sony's Playstation 2 and PSP systems and even the original Xbox were all must-have items that no one but a lucky few could seem to get hold of for some time.

Howard said...

Yeah, but there is only ONE Christmas Shopping Season, the time of year everybody saves for. For many families Christmas money spent is presents bought and there is no money left.

And things being what they are, don't you just know that the knockoffs from Asia are already storebound?

MS is getting slammed for this in most business pubs, and it ain't good for their "image." Now it may be that X Box 360 is so good and demand so high that they will survive this, but there are two articles today that indicate that MSFT loses money on every 360 they make (give away the razor and sell the blades; the old Gillette strategy) and never had any intention of selling anything other than the most expensive model.

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