Sony expects to immediately recoup PS4 hardware loss

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Kasz216 said:

enditall727 said:

MS is supposedly going to break even at $499 with X1(but who knows now after their whole scrambling to up the specs thing) and I believe that Nibtendo was taking like a $25 loss with eac Wii U sold a while back. Nintendo said something like they would break even if each customer bought 1 game with their Wii U

 

OT: $60? I'm impressed

Which is what makes the whole thing really fucking confusing.  Since the XOne is so much lower powered.

The only thing I can guess is Microsoft and Sony are using different metrics on what "Break Even" means... with MS including more.

 

Either that or Kinect is way more expensive then we can imagine.

I do not think that is is, in my opinion this is most likely the reason:

Xbox One dev claims Kinect costs ‘almost as much’ as the console itself

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/161365-xbox-one-dev-claims-kinect-costs-almost-as-much-as-primary-console

"Either that or Kinect is way more expensive then we can imagine."

remember the first Kinect was quite expensive without, dedicated Arm Processing chips inside it, this time the New Kinect has dedicated Processing chips designed by microsoft in house

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-15/microsoft-s-first-chip-brings-tank-finding-design-to-xbox.html