Dear Mr. Ballmer
fusion94 — Sat, 03/18/2006 - 15:47
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Printer-friendly versionAfter Sony announced on Tuesday that the Playstation 3 won't launch until November, the Xbox 360 is in a better position to become the top gaming console, says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
"In every other generation, the first guy to 10 million consoles was the number one seller in the generation," Ballmer told FORTUNE in an interview on Thursday afternoon. "Did we just get an even better opportunity to be the first guy to 10 million? Yeah, of course we did."
There is still a production bottleneck because of problems with a component vendor, whom Ballmer declined to name, but he expects Microsoft to sell 5 million systems by June. "We're sort-of on track," he says, "though it would've been nice at Christmas to have one for everyone who wanted one."
Dear Mr. Ballmer,
Yes you got a wonderful opportunity to finally become the premier gaming console on the planet. If, and only if, you guys can pull your collective heads out of your asses and fix the damn production issues you've had that have dramatically impacted availability. (come on, 600,000 units sold worldwide in the 6 weeks it was released in 2005)
In short quit fiddle fucking around with shit like "Origami" and fix those issues. There are only 10 weeks until June and at your current rate there's no way you're going to sell 5 million systems by then. You might sell another million but that would be pushing it.
And for god's sakes....quit shipping units to Japan where they will just occupy space on shelves and sell them here in the USA.
Sincerely,
Just Another Gamer
HA! Nice.
James (not verified) — Sat, 03/18/2006 - 20:37HA! Nice.
What is wrong with people
Random Reader (not verified) — Sat, 04/01/2006 - 19:44What is wrong with people like you? If you actually had an understanding of how the business worked you'd understand that the XBOX division is completely separate from their Origami. Now use the internet and do some research before complaining online like a baby.
Knowledge is power and the internet is at your fingertips
People like me?? Excuse me
fusion94 (not verified) — Sat, 04/01/2006 - 20:34People like me?? Excuse me Mr. Random Reader (I at least make comments as myself and not shrouded in secrecy, although you did use sendmethings@softhome.net as your email address and a quick ARIN WHOIS shows that you're from Canada (perhaps Ontario)). But you're off base here. Let's see if I can help you make a course correction.
Steve Ballmer is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft and as such has 3 Core Business Divisions that he's responsible for. The "XBOX division" as you so eloquently put it actually falls under the Entertainment and Devices Division as the Home and Entertainment Group "Origami" on the other hand is actually called "Ultra-Mobile PC" or "UMPC" for short. It resides under the Mobile and Embedded Devices Group which by they way....is also part of the Entertainment and Devices Division.
In other words (just in case the grey matter contained inside your melon is having trouble keeping up) both UMPC and XBOX fall under the same Core Business Division within Microsoft which is the Entertainment and Devices Division and is led by Robert J. Bach the president of the Entertainment and Devices Division who in turn reports to Steve Ballmer.
Regardless...my so called letter to Mr. Ballmer wasn't to be taken as seriously as you apparently took it.
There...happy now?