nuckles87 said:
superryo said:
So MS sold so much better than the original X360 and it's a failure? Where did the loss of billions a year come from? I thought they are selling the One at a profit? Seems like a lot of "journalists" are using the PIDOOMA (pulled it directly out of my ass) theory. As for not being the most powerful and not selling as much as the competitors mean you should close shop then Apple should close as well since doesn't Android (mostly Samsung) owns 80% of the market and in some cases have much more powerful devices? How come none of the "journalists" are calling Apple to close shop and selling to Google? |
It's not "pulled out of his ass". The division that the Xbox is in has been a money loser for most of it's existence, and when the division did make profits those profits were typically slim slim. And apparently, those profits were not coming from the Xbox part of that division, but rather then Android part of it:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.833461-Microsoft-Loses-2-Billion-Per-Year-On-Xbox-Analyst-Says
Seriously dude, that link was in the OP. Looking at this, I don't really see WHY MS would continue investing in this business. They've lost billions of dollars on the Xbox and have yet to win a generation's market share. Xbox One looks to be losing a lot of the ground 360 gained, and within this console generation most of the One's TV and multimedia features will be found in your typical Smart TV. This thing will be obsolete for everything but gaming before this generation is out.
If MS wants to be the center of the living room, they'd be better off investing in Smart TV software, because I don't see how the One will gain them anything.
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If you say why MS should invest in a money losing business then why didn't that apply to Sony for years with PS3? They may have lost billions to set up but from what I understand they have been making money for the last couple of years. No one ever say anything about Google spending billions on Android and giving it away in order to make more billions on advertising. In the end whether MS makes money or not has nothing to do with 99.9999999999% of the gamers or the gaming journalists out there. They should enjoy the games or don't... if this keeps up we won't have a 2 horse race cause the same people will tell Nintendo to close shop too since they are selling even worse than MS these days... and I am not talking about handhelds.
