Seagate Reportedly Loses Some PS3, Xbox Share To Toshiba Options

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Seagate Reportedly Loses Some PS3, Xbox Share To Toshiba Posted by XanTium | June 25 19:00 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From barrons.com: [QUOTE] Seagate apparently has lost some of its game console hard-drive business with Sony for the Playstation 3 and Microsoft for the Xbox 360 to Toshiba, according to Avian Securities analyst Avi Cohen. "What is unclear is whether Seagate has made a strategic decision to limit exposure to this segment as its positive impact on profitability and revenues has been questionable," he writes. In Q4, he notes, "Seagate's gaming business negatively impacted both revenues and profits as Seagate was forced to commit capacity to this low-end segment that could have been more profitably used to build more expensive, higher-end HDDs." [/QUOTE] Full Story: barrons.com

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Not surprising since Toshiba needs to make up for the loss on HD-DVD somewhere, I just hope they don't make cheap crappy drives that fail every few months.