But didn't they spend 50 Million on 2 gta IV dlcs for 1 year??
oh well beats me.

I dont know why the military would want those things when they have this supercomputer - http://videogames.yahoo.com...

But i guess it does get a little cold during the winter and a superheater would be beneficial.

Edit: lol oops lemme correct it and say military

the high execs responsible for this decision and send their fat, lazy, sorry, greedy, ungrateful butts over there to the front line. Maybe then they might have a little more respect for our men and women in uniform. Oh wait, what am I thinking? They might lose money and besides all those soldiers are only giving their lives for this country. Boy am I stupid. Microsoft, get your sorry selves out of the gaming business and just freakin go under already. We're better off without sad american companies like you. Worthless. Absolutely worthless......

um whats stopping the US army from going too game stop?

A bit of a cheapshot move by Microsoft if all the army wanted them for was to give the troops some entertainment.

But this war is pretty unpopular with many people, maybe The Soft decided it was best to just not get involved.

Even if they would be only supplying game consoles.

Hey Sony! here is a fantastic opportunity for you! PS3 supports the troops and cures cancer =P

what u mean us army bought ps3's for their super computers

Still losing money on each system? WTF

This is one of the comments on Wired thread by a poster....

Posted by: captbilly | 02/9/10 | 4:26 pm

The kind of thinking that makes sense out of the claim that a government computer costs $1000 while an XBOX costs only $200, is the logic that causes our government to make stupid buying choices in almost everything they do. As another poster already said, the hardware in an XBOX would today cost about $250 -$300 if it was purchased as a complete computer, not the $1000 that the government may spend on a typical, much more powereful, computer.

As to Microsoft’s apparent unwillingness to sell XBOXs to the Army, I seriously doubt that Microsoft could actually refuse to sell them to anyone, but I do understand the economic reasons for not wanting to. Game consoles are heavily subsidized by their manufacturers. A PS3 (an increadible piece of hardware at it’s introduction) cost way more to make than it sells for, but SOny makes up the difference in licencing fees (to game manufacturers), as does Wii and XBOX. If the Army bought a million XBOXs and installed one game (maybe of their own design so no fees to Mircosoft) then Microsoft would lose a bunch of money on the sale. These game consoles only make money if the owner continues to go out and buys or downloads games and content, and the Army isn’t going to be doing that. I am an ex USAF pilot and I was involved in many contract negotiations between the USAF and suppliers so I understand how expensive it can be to deal with the military. Those infamous $100 dollar hammers really did cost the manufacturer $100 to sell to the military… because the military wanted mountains of documantation or sold tha hammer as part of a vary expensive to design system. I can only imagine what the Army would want as part of a $200,000,000 XBOX sale, the paperwork alone could cost Microsoft millions.

"If more Soldiers had access to Halo we would no doubt" have a lot more dead soldiers once they start to believe that in the real world guns aim themselves and have no recoil :)

Seriously? Microsoft is concerned a 360 would be used as a military training device? But yet they have no issues making tons of money from kids playing violent games? Weak sauce, Microsoft.

I found this really strange:

If the Xbox became an Army training device, it could taint its reputation. Microsoft was concerned that “do we want the Xbox 360 to be seen as having the flavor of a weapon? Do we want Mom and Dad knowing that their kid is buying the same game console as the military trains the SEALs and Rangers on?” Smith told me during an interview for Training & Simulation Journal.”

When the highest selling games on Xbox 360 are titles like Modern Warfare 1 & 2....

when all the x360 sold red ring. Believe it or not Iraq and Afghanistan gets very very hot during the day.

On top of this it will cost them a fortune to send the box for repairs under warrenty lol.

Welcome to the USCA (United States of Corporate America)

wow, i already didnt like microsoft, i mean look at the quality of their hardware

but this? wow!!!!!!!!!!! you own soldiers fighting and dying for you so that when you go home you have your freedoms and everything else and you wont even give them anything.....real winners

Mac here i come

..supposed to care about a thing like that?

Reporting article as flamebait.

they already have ps3s

And they make the real money and profit from selling games.

Now, if the Army buy a lot of consoles, the console maker (Microsoft, Nintendo or Sony) will have to sell those consoles at losses or break even. Then, the Army will buy only ONE copy of each game, and then use that copy for all the consoles.

That means the console maker will never be able to recover their losses if they sell to the Army.

MS is a bunch of idiots for not support our Troops for that. I'm sure all them are Xboxs owners over that miss playing the games here in the U.S. so I'm disappoint in you MS for not support the Troops. And besides playing games relaxes you too.

I doubt it.

They wouldn't want to buy 360's becuase they are weak... they bought a bunch of PS3's to yank the cell processors and wipe the OS... A 360 is to a super computer is like a sparrow is to an eagle...

No point in buying them when a pentium 3 is more powerfull lol

Why would Microsoft do that if it doesn't make them money? Sony would, heck Sony has been helping at on alot of things and I think its cool a company can put aside making money to help others.

Sony is already helping the people that were hit by that earthquake.

1.8 LOL

Probally call the Abram Tank in if it was a 3rd or 4th replacement.

Wow train a Navy Seal on an gaming console.
Please excuse me while I laugh myself silly.

i have to comment on that one last bullet point that says that it could taint the 360's reputation. Really? Mate, If there are 12 year olds running around online on both PS3 and 360 playing games that they are not legally able to own nor buy, i dont think the parents would care since those games came from their parents pockets.

And also on the first point. who cares if it only gets 1 game. you still get profit from it.

being good at army games, won't make you a good soldier, the simulations they use on PCS are far more advance than games like COD, a console couldnt do what the army needed.

the army uses advance simulators, not games.

This article seems like bs to me.

I don't think your aim on Halo relates to your aim irl...

What the hell are they doing?

So this is what happens to all the RROd'ed consoles. They ship them over to Iraq for target practice.

The big games on Xbox360 are military-related. Sure, the COD series is obviously wartime stuff, but even Halo and Gears of War have their Western military-tinged weapons, speech, and even ideals.

...so why doesn't Microsoft want the Xbox360 to be associated with weapons? Is it because things will suddenly change with Natal? I have no clue. It really doesn't make sense, especially since not every soldier is at war, and many of them would be interested in buying a console if they tried it.

I realized something... Damn that 360 is an ugly console.

RROD Anyone?? Yeah, I wouldn't wanna cram alot of Xbox 360's altogother now, would I? Of course unless I'm doing nuclear explosion testing, W00T!! Hey I'm J/K ok??

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This video, I think MS deserved it, that so next time they better make a more reliable system!!!!

M$ should donate xb2 to the army. They could use some nice cheap heaters for those cold Iraqi nights.

resiliant.

is doing a new experiment with PS3s with something to do with the brain.

that vid was so epic.

I can understand MS' reasons for saying that back then, the main one imo being a potential shortage of the machines.

TBH though I wouldn't think badly of them for supplying the army for simulation purposes. Sure people might disagree with wars and stuff but that isn't the fault of soldiers, even if you disagree with the war, support should be given to the troops so that as many as possible can return home safe and well. I do all I can with my limited means to help support the British army, even though I think it's time the majority of them (if not all) were brought home.

anyne notice that one soldier was playing madden in the picture?

It must be difficult doing push ups on a console,ok men fix bayonets stab the disk tray but sir i have trench finger.