Trunkin said:
Captain_Tom said:
Forgive me as I only read the first 3 sentences of your wall of text (Tone it down next time). I don't want MS to leave gaming per se... What I want is for them to stop burning money in the Xbox pitt and focus on PC. They could simply put their real first party exclusives on PC and bolster its catalog. And yes it is a financial disaster:
http://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-xbox-division-has-lost-nearly-3-billion-in-10-years
That graph doesn't even take into acount the 7 billion dollars in losses the first Xbox created. Do you really think MS made up all that money from 2013-2014? Not with how X1 is doing.
But not only are they wasting their own money, but they are constantly holding back gaming with their money hatting, consistantly inferior hardware, and archaic parity clauses. If people want real competion in consoles they should want MS to exit.
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Do those numbers count software sales and revenue related to XBLA? Cause that sounds impossibly high. In that case, wouldn't Playstation's 5bil loss put them in the red overall as well?
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-As far as I can tell, yes that takes all things Xbox into account.
-This is the best I can find for PS profit:
http://i.imgur.com/1btMQH0.png
It looks bad at first, but if you add up the numbers in just this timespan it is clear that Sony has still profited far more than they lost (Like 50% more). Also keep in mind that his chart does not include 2011 or 2012 which were the most profitable years for the PS3 with PS+ and so they likely wiped out most of those PS3 losses. Then throw in the crazy financial success of the PS4 for another year and you can see that they probably have doubled their total investments. Far better than Xbox.
