So uh, what does Microsoft do now?

[sales2099]

CosmicSex said:

sales2099 said:

Microsoft is not #1 in many of its fields. That doesn't mean you close up shop and leave lol. I mean seriously........

360 was profitable since 2008 if you look up their quarterly reports. Now losing that gen to PS3 by what.....2 million consoles is not by any means a crushing defeat. If anything they were winning the majority as PS3 had to crawl up to them over the years and finally passed them.......when the succesors launched.

And Microsoft lately has been doing this thing of making money off competition. They have been making their services available on competition devices for the last few years, and making a ton more money in doing so. Same goes in gaming.......we really appreciate PS gamers helping to fund Xbox with the purchasing of Minecraft ;P. Same goes for porting games to PC......making money off gamers who wouldn't tradionally buy a console or a Xbox.

Xbox One is making par. Not the PS4, but certainly not the Wiiu. They just have to stay the course and start the next gen, but do it on the right foot this time.

Microsoft isn't winning.  Lets be real for a moment.  The 360 was successful because the competition was too expensive.  That is the main reason. 

And also because the Xbox was so prone to breaking.  Divide their sales in half and you still have more units than actual owners.  Thats why the PS4 is crushing.  Not because its really so much better... There just isn't that many Xbox Owners out there.  Xbox Empire is really Xbox village with a mountain of broken 360s everywhere.

It was a gimmie.  A freebie.  Our oponions don't matter. Microsoft can probably sell 35 million at most, and the folks who are against their PC push haven't put 2 and 2 together.  You said 360 was profitable every quarter, and yes, people had to replace them every quarter or so (although I really want the last itteration of the 360)

My first sentence acknowledged MS isnt #1 in many markets......so thanks for aggreeing with me? And please give 360 credit where its due. It wasn't successful solely on Sony making their own mistakes.

Why do you insist on changing history? Faulty 360's were all but fixed in the 2008 chip update........like 45 million more 360s were sold after that point. PS4 is crushing because of many reasons, mainly IMO MS made terrible design choices before its launch, plus forcing kinect, etc.

Again.....think you are placing a exaggerated number on replacements, and are making RROD the whole focus of your post, which really doesn't address half of what I said. I'm sorry but, 360's didn't break for the entirety of the generation........you really have to take the goggles off and get informed.