Microsoft touts Xbox sales but laments online woes
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Microsoft Corp  sold 4.3  million Xbox 360 video game consoles in the last three months  of 2007, helped by hit titles such as "Halo 3" and "Mass  Effect," according to company data released on Thursday.
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Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said  its &quot;Halo 3&quot; video game had $170 million in sales on its first  day, easily surpassing its predecessor, 2004&#39;s &quot;Halo 2,&quot; which  racked up $125 million in the first day.
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SEATTLE - Microsoft said Thursday it eked out a gain in net profit despite taking a $1 billion charge to pay for repairs to its Xbox 360 game consoles.
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SANTA MONICA, California  - Microsoft Corp.   said on Tuesday it will hold firm on pricing for its  Xbox 360 game console, defying widespread expectations that it  would respond to a price cut by rival Sony Corp.  for  the PlayStation 3.
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Microsoft will incur pretax costs of as much as $1.15 billion related to repairing Xbox 360 video-game consoles and said yesterday that sales of the machines missed its forecast for the fiscal year that ended June 30.
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The much-anticipated game goes on sale Tuesday. Can it help lead the Xbox 360 to victory?
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Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it will offer a free downloadable video game to users of its Xbox online gaming service after the network was plagued with connection troubles over the holidays.
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AFP/File - Microsoft on Tuesday began US sales of a scaled-down Xbox 360 model billed by some analysts as a doomed bid to unseat Nintendo's Wii console as ruler of the casual video game market.
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Microsoft Corp.   said on Tuesday it will hold firm on pricing for its  Xbox 360 game console, defying widespread expectations that it  would respond to a price cut by rival Sony Corp. (6758.T) for  the PlayStation 3.
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Microsoft's hardware-challenged Xbox has another problem on its hands.
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The U.S. sales of Microsoft Corp.'s   new Xbox 360 video game console during its first 13  months in stores were 6 percent higher than comparable sales of  the original Xbox, market research group NPD said on Thursday.
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Microsoft Corp  does not  expect sales of its Xbox 360 game console to suffer if Toshiba  Corp (6502.T) discontinues HD DVD technology, Microsoft said in  a statement on Monday.
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Blog: In a conference call to talk about hardware problems, Microsoft also notes that it failed to hit its goal of selling 12 million units by the end of June.
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On October 11 Microsoft will launch its Xbox 360 Elite in Japan, where Xbox sales are lagging.
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Microsoft roiled the gaming world Thursday by taking a $1 billion charge to take care of problems with its Xbox 360. NEWSWEEK's N'gai Croal talks to Xbox chief Peter Moore about the decision.
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The Los Angeles story headlined "Microsoft's Xbox 360 US  sales top first Xbox--NPD" is withdrawn because the data  supporting the story may be inaccurate. Reuters is waiting for  an update from the company. A new story may be issued.
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Microsoft Corp  is seeing  shortages of its Xbox 360 video game console in the United  States, as the company failed to anticipate strong post-holiday  demand, an executive said on Wednesday.