CartBlanche on 25 December 2017
| LudicrousSpeed said: No one but Nintendo makes a lot of money off hardware sales. What you described (subscription fees, software sales, plus one you didn’t mention, licensing fees) is how Sony and Microsoft make money in gaming. |
I will need to double check, but IIRC both Microsoft and Sony have already started making profits off their current gen consoles. A different scenario to last gen, at least for Sony, as it took them over 5 years before they could start re-couping costs. That's excluding X1X as that is fairly new, but as its an incremental HW update, I would think they can re-coup costs on that quite quickly, if it sells well in the number for the economies of scale make it profitable. A big IF.
Last edited by CartBlanche - on 26 December 2017
