"Even if they have five machines out of 300, 000 turn out to be defective, it will reflect badly on Microsoft, " says gaming analyst Schelley Olhava of market research firm IDC.
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Maybe that's why Olhava expects Xbox to command more than a quarter of the game market by the end of next year and surpass the market share of Sony 's (nyse: SNE - news - people ) PlayStation 2 by the end of 2003.