Official 2006 NFL Thread

ok this is just begging to be posted again.


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lol where is back in black he hasnt been around today think he is hiding? lol

I would be if I were him. I mean how many times can you say....... They just had a bad game but they are going to get back on track soon.... I mean that comment has come out more then once after a pittsburgh loss. Just come out and say MY TEAM SUCKS, save a little face instead of trying to play it off.

Big Ben is back?? B/c they own one game at home so all of a sudden the world is good and Pittsburgh is on its way back to the superbowl? He needs to take a seat and talk shop w/ Beldsoe.

dallas just cant get it together tonite.

Redline_RR said:

Bears dont play the Giants next week douche.

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yeah i forgot about the Miami vs bears game this coming weekend

I can't believe denver let the colts back in

sorry bout the co-worker and friend.


bout time u realized that they suck lol now u can just drink more so they suck less i have it mastered after watching green bay the last 5 years.

Back in Black said:

Kinda reminds me (no flames but the last one I can remember) the Pats after they won their first SB. I think the Pats went 10-6 the next year. Then came back with basiclly the same team and kicked ass. Not saying they would do that but it reminds me A LOT of that team that year.

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You can use that to justify their horrible season but the Patriots did not finish in the basement of the division that yr either w/ the QB having his worse season to date.

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yeah i forgot about the Miami vs bears game this coming weekend

I can't believe denver let the colts back in

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Idiots, you have to pressure manning to beat him. Thats what the Patriots have done over the yrs. Denver just figured their secondary was good enough to hang w/ the colts recivers. Not to take anything away from the denver defense but you cant put 0 pressure on manning and just let him sit back there, someone will get open eventually and he will find them. Pressure Manning and he folds...its not that hard to figure out.

Financially things are currently looking a little bleak for Sony...


Friday, October 27, 2006

Console Wars: A Look At the Financial Results

Dean Takahashi, 12:38 AM in Dean Takahashi, Gaming

Earnings results have a way of shedding light on the reality of the video game console wars. They scrape away the rhetoric that tends to obscure the real picture on the ground. Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft all offered glimpses of the console battle with their recently reported results for the third calendar quarter.

Sony is in trouble. Its earnings plummeted 94 percent to $14.4 million because of costs related to its laptop battery recall. But it also reported a $369 million operating loss in its video game business because of start-up costs for the PlayStation 3. Sony’s game revenues decreased 20 percent to $1.4 billion from a year ago because of a decline in PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2 sales, as well as a price cut on the PS 2. Sony sold 5 million PS 2s worldwide in the quarter and 3.89 million PSPs. Sony is sitting on a lot of inventory now related to PS 3 components. It’s nail-biting time in Tokyo. Sony has $4.7 billion in cash, and $3 billion in short-term debt and current long-term debt.

fIn Redmond, things are looking brighter for Microsoft. The company has $31.8 billion in cash. That’s a substantial war chest. Sales rose 70 percent in the Entertainment and Devices division, which includes games, to $1.03 billion in the quarter. The division cut its loss from $173 million a year ago to $96 million. Microsoft says it is on target to hit profitability by the fiscal year that ends June 30, 2008. That’s a long way away, but the company is making some progress.

On the bright side. Microsoft has more than 4 million Xbox Live subscribers worldwide and it plans on hitting 6 million by June 30. It will have 160 games out by the end of the year. In the U.S., Microsoft has sold 2.9 accessories per console and software sales are at 5.1 games per console. Those numbers probably don’t hold up worldwide. But I’m told that the attach rates and Xbox Live subscription numbers are ahead of plan. There is even some good news in Japan, since the limited edition run of Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Blue Dragon game – bundled with the Xbox 360 – sold out.

Microsoft has shipped more than 6 million consoles worldwide (3.6 million in North America, 1.7 million in Europe, and 700,000 in the rest of the world). This number is very revealing. It suggests that Microsoft has sold through less than 6 million and that shows it is behind on its goal of hitting 10 million consoles sold by the time Sony sells one (starting Nov. 17). Adam Holt, an analyst at JP Morgan, said in a note that sales were light and Microsoft seemed to be behind its goal.

By June 30, Microsoft is still targeting 13 million to 15 million consoles sold worldwide. But it’s going to be hard to hit the 10 million target soon. Microsoft has had a lot of luck in this round of the console wars. It executed an on-time launch. It had a big shortage of consoles through the spring, but Sony failed to execute and pushed back its launch. Why is there so much friction for Xbox 360 sales when Microsoft has the field all to itself?

Well, one explanation lies in Nintendo’s results for the six months ended Sept. 30. The folks in Kyoto sold more than 10 million Nintendo DS and DS Lite handhelds worldwide in the last six months, giving it a grand total of 26.8 million sold to date worldwide. The New Super Mario Bros. title sold more than 6.7 million copies worldwide. Nine DS titles sold more than 1 million units. The company is launching the Wii console on Nov. 19 in the U.S. and still expects to sell 4 million by the end of the year and 6 million worldwide by March 31. It expects to sell 17 million Wii titles by March 31.

Nintendo reported sales of $2.5 billion, up 69 percent from a year earlier. Net income was $458.6 million, up from a loss a year ago. Nintendo has $6.6 billion in cash. Nintendo is forecasting sales of $6.2 billion and profits of $843 million for the year ended March 31, 2007. The company boosted its prediction of annual sales of DS units from 17 million to 20 million units worldwide. Nintendo also increased its GameBoy Advance sales forecast from 2.5 million to 3.3 million units worldwide.

Very Informative Meat, whats it have to do w/ Football

meat u old bastage quit spamming our football thread with sony stuff lol. i bet he got it mixed up with the ps3 thread.

forgive him, he's old and confused.

he didnt take his alzimers medi this morning.

where is redline? it is monday night his team is up by a touchdown and he isnt posting.

umm *cough* tampa bay *cough*

lol brad johnson is sucking.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a game, TOM BRADY IS GOD!!!!!


The Patriots just Dominated on both sides of the ball. The Defense allowed 0 Points!! and the Offense was just in sync and torching that vikings secondary. Next week will not be a push over game but they have beat the colts before and they know how to do it, Im really confident they will do it again. If they do that deff puts them as the #1 team in the AFC and if the knock off the Bears the # 1 team in the NFL

Redline_RR said:

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a game, TOM BRADY IS GOD!!!!!


The Patriots just Dominated on both sides of the ball. The Defense allowed 0 Points!! and the Offense was just in sync and torching that vikings secondary. Next week will not be a push over game but they have beat the colts before and they know how to do it, Im really confident they will do it again. If they do that deff puts them as the #1 team in the AFC and if the knock off the Bears the # 1 team in the NFL

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Yeah that was a SHOW the pats put on last night. I can't wait untill sunday!!!